RESOURCE BULLETIN Winter 2014 Volume 28 :: Number 2 endered erspectives Gon InternationalP Development IN THIS ISSUE Greetings from the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State University, the host center for the Gender, Development, and Globalization (GDG) Articles . 1 Program, formerly the Women and International Development (WID) Program! Audiovisuals . 4 The Gendered Perspectives on International Development Working Papers Seriesis Monographs and Technical pleased to announce the publication of its newest paper: Reports . 6 GPID Working Paper #303 (December 2013): Periodicals . 14 Gender, Power, and Traumatic Stress in a Q’eqchi’ Refugee Community in Mexico, by Faith R. Warner, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Books . 15 Study Opportunities . 19 This paper is available online for free at www.gencen.isp.msu.edu/ and the rest of the Working Papers Series is available at www.gencen.msu.edu/publications/ Grants and Fellowships . 21 papers.htm. Conferences . 24 As always, we encourage submissions and suggestions from our readers! We especially invite graduate students, scholars, and professionals to review one of a Calls for Papers . 26 number of books that are available for review. We also encourage submissions by authors and publishers of relevant articles and books for inclusion in future issues. Online Resources . 28 Remember, the current issue of the Resource Bulletin, along with the most recent Book Review . 30 back issues, is now online! Visit gencen.msu.edu/publications/bulletin.htm. Thank you very much, and enjoy the Winter 2014 issue of the Gendered Perspectives on International Development Resource Bulletin! Executive Editor: Anne Ferguson, PhD Managing Editor: Kristan Elwell, MPH, MA Editorial Assistants: Varsha Koduvayur **The contents of this publication were developed under a Title VI grant Michael Gendernalik from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do Edited by: Galena Ostipow not necessarily represent the policy or views of the U.S. Department of Education.** Articles Development and Change skills and qualities to it. This article realms of the market, politics, and Volume 44, Issue 5 draws on research in Ethiopia, Mali, and technologies. This article explores an “The Return of Displaced Nuer in Tanzania to assess recent experiences of intimate dimension of globalization by Southern Sudan: Women Becoming development interventions supporting analyzing the transnational marriage Men?” by Katarzyna Grabska, 2013, pp. women’s collective action in agricultural trend among women in northeast 1135-1157. Conceptualizing war-time markets. Thailand (Isan’s) villages. The phua displacement as a catalyst for social farang (foreign husband) phenomenon change, this article examines the Gender and Development Journal in Isan epitomizes the intimate link gendered emplacement experiences Volume 21, Issue 2 between the global political economy of returnee displaced women in the “Feminist Mobilization and Progressive and individuals’ desires, aspirations, aftermath of the recent (1983-2005) Policy Change: Why Governments and imagination in the private realm of civil war in South Sudan. The article Take Action to Combat Violence personal and marital relationships. The attempts to shed light on the strategies Against Women,” by Laurel Weldon phua farang phenomenon is embedded of returnee women in transforming and and Mala Htun, pp. 231-247. Some in a context of spatial and economic contributing to their communities in the national governments have adopted inequalities at the local, national, and context of an independent South Sudan. a wide variety of measures to address global levels, and manifests classed It focuses specifically on their gendered violence against women, including legal and gendered strategies by which emplacement strategies to access reform, public education campaigns, marginalized subjects attempt to land, livelihoods and political rights. and support for shelters and rape crisis transcend the limited opportunities for Through these diverse actions, some centers, but other governments have upward social mobility available to these women contest and reconfigure gender done little to confront the problem. women. identities while others reinforce unequal What accounts for these differences power relations within their households in policy? To answer this question, we Gender, Work & Organization and communities. These gendered analyzed policies on violence against Volume 20, Issue 5 emplacements emphasize the hybridity women in 70 countries from 1975 to “Chinese Male Peasant Workers of place, identity and self in processes of 2005. Our analysis reveals that the most and Shifting Masculine Identities in social transformation. important and consistent factor driving Urban Workspaces,” by Xiaodong policy change is feminist activism. Lin and Martin Mac an Ghaill, 2013, Volume 21, Issue 2 This plays a more important role than pp. 498–511. A key feature of China’s “Women’s Collective Action in African left-wing parties, numbers of women internal rural–urban migration is the Agricultural Markets: the Limits of legislators, or even national wealth. In transformation of work from a rural- Current Development Practice for Rural addition, our work shows that strong, based agricultural sector to urban-based Women’s Empowerment,” by Sally vibrant domestic feminist movements industrial and service sectors. This Baden, pp. 295-311. A wide range of use international and regional article critically examines the interplay development actors play a major role conventions and agreements as levers between urban work and accompanying in initiating, supporting, and promoting to influence policy-making. Strong local social relations in the workplace (that is, collective action of various forms, which movements bring home the value of service and low-skilled manual jobs) and aims to secure economic and wider global norms on women’s rights. the (re)construction of male peasant benefits to women, through improving workers’ subjectivities and identity their engagement in markets. But Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal formation. The qualitative data from there is limited understanding of what of Feminist Geography the men’s life histories suggest that works for rural women in terms of their Volume 20, Issue 6 familial gender practices, conceptualized participation in collective action, and the “From Rural Life to Transnational as an appropriation of the traditional “empowerment” benefits to be gained Wife: Agrarian Transition, Gender Confucian “father–son” relationship, from it. Gendered power dynamics Mobility, and Intimate Globalization are of importance in shaping the men’s in mixed-sex organizations seeking to in Transnational Marriages in occupationally located shifting identities improve livelihoods through collective Northeast Thailand,” by Sirijit Sunanta in traditional urban “female” jobs. This action often lead to different and and Leonora Angeles, pp. 699-717. exploratory study aims to examine unequal outcomes for women. Women’s Popular and academic discourses of complex and multilayered accounts of motives for collective action often differ globalization are often gender biased, rural–urban labor migration, in terms of from men’s, and they bring different focusing on formal and impersonal how the men accommodate themselves 1 to the city, involving both material this point by identifying two separate researchers undertook the mapping constraints (structure) and creative gendered discourses of legitimization of Thenzawl handloom cluster and cultural practices (agency). Their that attempt to reconcile hegemonic observed that of the 205 micro biographical transformations are located masculinities with the current contexts handloom enterprises operating there within wider socioeconomic and political and circumstances that IDPs face. These interestingly, 98% of the entrepreneurs transformations were women. We highlight associated with the impact of micro China’s current handloom enterprises on modernization livelihood in terms of the project, of which extent of dependence of they are a major entrepreneur households constitutive on handloom enterprises, component. the proportion of small weavers (on the basis Volume 20, Issue 6 of looms owned) and “Traumatic income earned from the Masculinities: enterprises in the cluster. the Gendered The article also offers Geographies of suggestions to initiate Georgian IDPs from cluster development Abkhazia,” by Peter activities in the cluster to Kabachnik et al., enable it to sustain their 2013, pp. 773-793. initiative and grow. Over 200,000 people became internally International Journal of displaced after Feminist Politics several violent Volume 15, Issue 3 conflicts in the early “Bukusu (Kenya) 1990s in Georgia. Folktales: How Women For many internally Perpetuate Patriarchy,” displaced persons by Namulundah Florence, (IDPs), gender 2013, pp. 370-390. This relations have been transformed new traumatic masculinities coexist with article explores gender depictions in significantly. This translates to hegemonic masculinities, although the Bukusu folktales compiled in “From our many women taking on the role of latter are reformed and redefined as Mothers’ Hearths: Bukusu Folktales and breadwinner for their family, which a result of the new contexts and new Proverbs” (2005). The folktales portray often is accompanied by the process places within which they are performed. males as courageous and possessing of demasculinization for men. In this inordinate