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Social movements and human rights
Feminism in an interconnected world
Towards a remaking of social contracts
Part II: Governing Globalization: Critiquing the Reproduction of Inequality
Chapter 1: Financialization, Distribution and Inequality
The crisis is not just a financial crisis
Table 1.1 Global trends in income inequality
A framework for transformational macroeconomic policy
Box II.1 Multilateralism: From Advancement to Self-defence
Box II.2 Women’s Status and Free Trade in the Pacific
Pacific women and free trade
Resisting more free trade
Chapter 2: New Poles of Accumulation and Realignment of Power in the Twenty-first Century
The shift in economic power
Challenges and opportunities for South–South cooperation
Chapter 3 The Modern Business of War
The militarization of the economy
Figure 3.1 US budget: state, defence and non-defence expenditures, 2000–2014
Table 3.1 Top ten US defence industries, government contracts and PE ratios, 2002/2010
Table 3.2 Old and new G7 countries: share of world total GDP
Table 3.3 Old and new G7 countries: basic data 2010
Table 3.4 GDP in US$, PPP projections
Wages and social control, and the control of terrorism
Table 3.5 Wage bill as % of GDP, selected Latin American countries
The modern business of war
Box II.3 Militarization, Illicit Economies and Governance
Box II.4 Commodity Exports and Persistent Inequality under Latin American Progressive Governments
Chapter 4: The Convergences and Divergences of Human Rights and Political Economy
The human rights approach to development
Critiques of the human rights approach
The political economy approach to development
Critiques of the political economy approach
Defining and taking up the challenge
Part III: Political Ecology and Climate Justice: Tackling Sustainability and Climate Change
Chapter 5: Climate Non-negotiables
Financing the ‘fixes’ or fixing the finance
Be realistic, demand the impossible
Recovering feminist engagement
Feminist principles and alternatives
Box III.1 Primitive Accumulation Revisited
Primitive accumulation goes global
The corrosive power of the moneylenders
Chapter 6: Geoengineering: A Gender Issue?
From engineering to geoengineering
Geoengineering technologies
What’s gender got to do with it?
Twelve ways the geoengineering discourse is gendered
Geoengineering governance
Box III.2 Green Rhetoric in the Asian Fiscal Stimulus
Chapter 7: Land Grabs, Food Security and Climate Justice: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Linking hunger, food security and social reproduction from a feminist perspective
Inadequate and inequitable responses to hunger and food insecurity
Land grabs and climate change: the scramble for Africa’s land
Land grabs, climate change and food production
Land grabs and fuel production
Policy responses to lands grabs and climate change: making matters worse?
‘Win–win’ governance, ecological and gender justice
Box: Daewoo and breadbasket deals
Box III.3 African Feminist Resistance And Climate Change Politics
Part IV: Secularism and Biopolitics: Confronting Fundamentalism and Deciphering Biopolitics
Chapter 8: Negotiating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the UN: A Long and Winding Road
Setting out at ICPD and Beijing
Going uphill at ICPD+5 and Beijing+5
Running to stay in place during the Bush era
Finally turning a corner in 2009
A different path: HIV and AIDS
Challenges and ways forward
Chapter 9: The Making of a Secular Contract
Gender and secularism: history of a concept
Fundamentalist movements: no room for transformation
Examples of fundamentalism contesting feminism
Box IV.1 The Abortion Debate in Latin America and the Caribbean: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Box IV.2 MDGs, SRHR and Poverty-Reduction Policies: Evidence from a DAWN Project
Chapter 10: Sexuality as a Weapon of Biopolitics: Rethinking Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Framings: intersectionality and biopolitics
Re-examining Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill
Sexuality politics as decoy
Staking women’s claims within AIDS responses
Box IV.4 Sexuality and Human Rights in Brazil: The Long and Winding Road
Part V: Frontier Challenges: Building Nation-States and Social Movements
Chapter 11: The State of States
Contextualizing social contracts in the South: colonial and post-colonial continuities
The post-colonial state and women’s citizenship
Current challenges in discourses on states and governance
Box V.1 ICTS: Efficient Exploitation or Feminist Tool?
Chapter 12: Religious Fundamentalism and Secular Governance
Women and fundamentalism today
Box V.2 Case Study of Engagement and Responses
Chapter 13: Reframing Peace and Security for Women
Changing terrains of security
Linking women to concerns of peace and security at the UN
Peace and security for women: a resolution mired in contradiction
Understanding the complexity of peace and security
Box V.3 LBT Rights and Militarization in Post-Conflict Context
Post-conflict nature of the victorious state
Entrenched militarization
Economic and ecological justice
Chapter 14: Feminist Activisms for New Global Contracts amidst Civil Indignation
Feminist activism in a dysfunctional multilateral system
Politics of solidarity and joint global actions
Survival and demise in a financially distressed environment
Feminist leadership for movement building in precarious times
Box V.4 The Promise and Pitfalls of UN Women
More than the sum of its parts
Box V.5 Young People: Shattering the Silence on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights