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  • Notes on Contributors 

    Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosie; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 55.1: Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives
  • Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives 

    Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosemary; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual rights. Limited and hard-fought gains for some are being reversed, co-opted, and ...
  • Introduction: Understanding Gender Backlash Across Regions 

    Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Skinner, Chloe; Lewin, Tessa; Nazneen, Sohela (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – ...
  • Voice: A Useful Concept for Researching Backlash and Feminist Counter-Actions? 

    Nazneen, Sohela (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Voice is central to claims-making and contestations around gender equality. This article engages with a diverse set of literature, social and feminist movement theory, and gender and development scholarship, to foreground ...
  • Backlash and Counter-Backlash: Safeguarding Access to Legal Abortion in Brazil 

    Sardenberg, Cecilia; Sacchet, Teresa; Kubík Mano, Maíra; Campelo, Luire; Daltro Ferreira, Camila; Fernandes, Talita Melgaço; Bandeira, Heloisa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This article addresses the backlash against reproductive rights during Jair Bolsonaro’s government, focusing on access to legal abortions. Although access to abortion is quite restricted in Brazil, under Bolsonaro it was ...
  • ‘It’s a Family Matter’: Inaction and Denial of Domestic Violence 

    Sultan, Maheen; Ahikire, Josephine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This article provides a grounded example of backlash in action surrounding the implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh. While formulation and enactment of the law marked ...
  • Public University Students’ Experiences of Anti-Feminist Backlash in Dhaka, Bangladesh 

    Ahmed, Adeepto; Jahan, Ishrat; Hasan, Israr; Rashid, Sabina Faiz; Naomi, Sharin Shajahan (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Public university campuses in Bangladesh have been historically significant sites of negotiating with social and political orders. Based on in-depth interviews with male and female students from three public universities ...
  • The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders 

    Edstrom, Jerker (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Backlash is not always pushing back against progress for women, but how is it still patriarchal? Sliced into three sections – on confluence, contestations, and cartographies – this article draws on a thesis about backlash ...
  • Disrupting Anxious Masculinity: Fraternity as Resistance 

    Das, Abhijit; Dasgupta, Jashodhara; Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee; Contractor, Sana Qais; Singh , Satish Kumar (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Within the experience of our work in India, context and positionality determine what we perceive as backlash against gender justice. An important underlying cause of backlash today is the widespread crisis of masculinities, ...
  • Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India 

    Chigateri, Shraddha; Kundu, Sudarsana (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    India is facing a period of seismic backlash against feminist and progressive politics and the pace of change, particularly over the last ten years, has been breakneck with serious consequences for women’s equality and ...
  • Gender Equality vs ‘Morality’: The Erosion of Gender Agendas in Kenya 

    Otieno, Phil Erick; Makabira, Alfred Makonjio (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This article seeks to interpret the recent erosion of gender equality agendas in Kenya through a lens of anti‑gender pushback, or patriarchal backlash. Since 2013, Kenyan governments have increasingly been appealing to ...
  • Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation 

    Mwiine, Amon Ashaba; Ahikire, Josephine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    Considerable progress has been seen in Ugandan women’s collective advocacy for their rights since independence. Notably, women activists’ efforts in the early 1990s culminated in the institutionalisation of gender equality ...
  • Queering Gender Backlash 

    Lewin, Tessa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This article ‘queers’ the concept of gender backlash – troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti-gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic ...
  • Deconstructing Anti-Feminist Backlash: The Lebanese Context 

    El Rahi, Nay; Antar, Fatima (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    The matrix of deep-rooted social, political, sectarian, and patriarchal structures in Lebanon necessitates the introduction of a nuanced understanding of ‘backlash’ that veers away from definitions of the notion that apply ...
  • Glossary - Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives 

    Edström, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosie; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
    This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 55.1: 'Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives'.
  • Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming Research-to-Policy Approaches 

    Ordóñez Llanos, Andrea; Georgalakis, James (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)
    The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented challenges for researchers and policy analysts, and accentuated the need for access to civil society and advocacy movements within politically closed spaces. The impact of ...
  • Notes on Contributors 

    Ordóñez Llanos, Andrea; Georgalakis, James (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)
    Summary: This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 54.2: Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming Research-to-Policy Approaches.
  • Introduction: Lessons for Locally Driven Research Responses to Emergencies 

    Ordóñez Llanos, Andrea; Georgalakis, James (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)
    Summary: This article summarises learning from Southern-led research designed to influence the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The case studies are drawn primarily from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) programme, ...
  • Introducción: Lecciones para la investigación sobre respuestas a emergencias impulsada a nivel local 

    Ordóñez Llanos, Andrea; Georgalakis, James (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)
    Este artículo resume lo aprendido a partir de una investigación dirigida por el Sur Global y diseñada para influir en la respuesta a la pandemia de Covid-19. Los estudios de casos proceden principalmente del programa ...
  • Introduction : Leçons issues des recherches menées localement en réponse aux situations d'urgence 

    Ordóñez Llanos, Andrea; Georgalakis, James (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)
    Cet article résume les enseignements tirés d'une recherche menée dans les pays du Sud et destinée à influencer la réponse à la pandémie de Covid-19. Les études de cas proviennent principalement du programme Covid-19 Responses ...

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