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Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)The #MeToo movement that spread across the internet in 2017 sparked a focus on sexual harassment as an international issue. However, collective action against sexual harassment did not start with the #MeToo campaign. ... -
Notes on Contributors: Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)This is the notes on contributors for IDS Bulletin 51.2, 'Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives' -
Collective Struggles Against Sexual Harassment: What We Have Learnt About Pathways to Accountability and their Outcomes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)The #MeToo movement that spread across the internet in 2017 sparked a focus on sexual harassment as an issue; this article, however, highlights the grass-roots work that had been happening for years before this collective ... -
Fighting Sexual Harassment on Campus: How Local Contexts of Different Universities Affect the Dynamics and Outcome of these Efforts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)In a context where sexual harassment and assault against women is widespread, this article examines the approach taken by three Egyptian universities to the issue. The article argues that the outcome of the universities’ ... -
Women Politicians Navigating the ‘Hostile Environment’ in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)Women in Pakistan operate within highly patriarchal contexts that promote their exclusion from public spaces; but those working in politics, the most public of spaces, defy these prevailing gender norms. This article ... -
‘Me Too’ and the ‘List’ – Power Dynamics, Shame, and Accountability in Indian Academia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a law student of Indian descent, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male academics who allegedly harassed women. India’s academic world splintered and the #MeToo movement became a student ... -
Multilevel Responses to Sexual Violence in Schools in West Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)With growing recognition of sexual and gender‑based violence (SGBV) occurring in schools, the governments of Burkina Faso and Benin, partnered with non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have attempted to implement systems ... -
Uniting Against the Tides: Filipino ‘Shefarers’ Organising Against Sexual Harassment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)In the Philippines, seafaring has been associated with men since the sixteenth century. However, in the 1990s, Filipino women started to enter this male-dominated world. But it has not been smooth sailing. Based on interviews ... -
Disruption and Design: Crowdmapping Young Women’s Experience in Cities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)The history of women’s exclusion and invisibility in cities is well charted, yet young women’s experience of sexual harassment and assault has been difficult to quantify. This article discusses the Free to Be project ... -
Collective Silence and Accountability for Sexual Harassment in Lebanon
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)This article aims to analyse law and policy on sexual harassment in Lebanon, particularly how meaningful change can be achieved for women living there who face increased vulnerability due to their status as refugees and ... -
Accountability with Teeth
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)Universities worldwide have had policies to combat sexual harassment since the 1980s. Nonetheless, having policies in place does not mean that universities are held accountable for the safety of their students, nor does ... -
Glossary: Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-21)This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 51.2 'Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives’'. -
Pastoralism and Development: Fifty Years of Dynamic Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-05-26)This archive IDS Bulletin reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. Much has changed, but there are also important continuities. The ‘end of pastoralism’ was proclaimed widely in the 1970s, yet, as a successful, ... -
Notes on Contributors: Fifty Years of Research on Pastoralism and Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-05-26)This is the note on contributors for IDS Bulletin 51A 'Pastoralism and Development: Fifty Years of Dynamic Change'. -
Pastoralism and Development: Fifty Years of Dynamic Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-05-26)This archive IDS Bulletin reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. Thirteen articles are introduced around six themes that have characterised IDS-linked research over this period. These are: pastoral ... -
Access to Food, Dry Season Strategies and Household Size amongst the Bambara of Central Mali
(Institute of Development Studies, 1986-07-31)The Bambara village of Kala lies on the northern frontier for regular crop production in Mali (see Map). With a long term mean rainfall of 600 mm per year, this region forms part of the southern Sahelian zone. Rainfall is ... -
Gender and Livelihoods in Northern Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 1995-01-31)This article reports on research done in 1993-94 in the Hunza and Nagar districts in the Karakorum mountains in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It was designed to explore whether increasing demands on women's labour inputs ... -
Local Customary Institutions as the Basis for Natural Resource Management Among Boran Pastoralists in Northern Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 1991-10-31)This paper argues, ors the basis of a specific case of a pastoral economy in northern Kenya, that customary natural resource management rules and institutions may provide a better starting point for development policies ... -
Institutional Change in the Syrian Rangelands
(Institute of Development Studies, 2001-10-31)Bedouin pastoral communities in West Asia and North Africa have developed different mechanism for coping with rainfall variability and seasonal feed resources (Masri 1991; Metral 2000; Nesheiwat 1991). Amongst these ... -
Climate Change and the Challenge of Non-equilibrium Thinking
(Institute of Development Studies, 2004-07-31)Climate change is happening, that much is certain. But in what way? How much? And with what impacts? Complex, non-linear models try to predict trends and patterns, but, inevitably, each model is different, parameters are ...
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