Call For Papers: Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID) Working Papers*
http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/publications/call.htm
Michigan State University invites the submission of article-length manuscripts (6,000 - 9,000 words) for peer review and publication in our *Gendered Perspectives on International Development (GPID)* Working Papers series. We seek materials at a late stage of formulation that contribute new understandings of women and mens roles and relations amidst social, economic, and political change in the developing world. The goals of *GPID** *are: (1) to promote research that contributes to gendered analysis of social change; (2) to highlight the effects of international development policy and globalization on gender roles and gender relations; and (3) to encourage new approaches to international development policy and programming.
*GPID* cross-cuts disciplines, bringing together research, critical analyses, and proposals for change. Individual papers in the series address a range of topics, such as gender, violence, and human rights; gender and agriculture; reproductive health and healthcare; gender and social movements; masculinities and development; and the gendered division of labor. We particularly encourage manuscripts that bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice. Accepted papers are individually printed for distribution as well as published online. We are an open access publication, and previously published papers can be viewed at:
http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/publications/papers.htm.
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the series, please send a 150 word abstract summarizing the papers essential points and findings to Dr. Anne Ferguson, Editor, or Rowenn Kalman, Managing Editor, at papers@msu.edu. If the abstract suggests your paper is suitable for the GPID Working Papers, the full paper will be invited for peer review and publication consideration.
*Recent Working Papers (download PDFs free of charge on our website):*
*Working Paper #302 Introducing Functional Time Use (FTU) Analysis: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Labor Time*
By Lisa Ringhofer, Hilfswerk Austria International
http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/documents/Working_Papers/WP302.pdf
*Abstract*: This paper introduces and applies the functional time use (FTU) analysis towards understanding inequalities in a developing country context and the relevant relationships among the use of time, gendered divisions of labor, and the household economy. In so doing, it proposes one way of approaching time poverty, a concept increasingly used in the development literature. An empirical study from the Tsimanes village of Campo Bello, a remote indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon, provides an analysis of the peoples daily time use with a special interest in their use of labor time. The findings illustrate a heavier overall labor burden on the female population across all age groups. The paper also argues for FTU analysis as tool for gender-sensitive analysis that has the potential to inform the work of development practitioners.
*Working Paper #301 Women, Men, Children & Livestock: Partnerships and Gendered Negotiations in the Fulâbe Household Livestock Enterprise*
By Karen Marie Greenough, CGIARs Challenge Program for Water and Food
http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/documents/Working_Papers/WP301.pdf
*Abstract*: Why do pastoral Fulбe women insist that they âfollowâ their men? Why cannot a man have a household without a wife? Why should this concern development programs? My research in Tanout, Niger, has shown that resources, rights, and responsibilities in pastoralist households are gendered in negotiable partnerships between hearthholders and chief herders. Through a successful partnership, essential for the viability of household enterprises, wife, husband and children benefit from livestock and dairy production to maintain the households overall well-being. Programs that disregard these partnerships and household/herd integrity risk failure and harm to project participants.
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Rowenn B. Kalman
Managing Editor, Gendered Perspectives on International Development Gender, Development, and Globalization Program
206 International Center
Michigan State University
E. Lansing, MI 48824
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