Jane L. Parpart

Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with the aim of reflecting on past problems as well as successes in order to develop strategies for making such projects more truly collaborative, rather than a minefield of broken promises and unspoken (and sometimes spoken) resentments.

Restructured Worlds / Restructured Debates: Globalization, Development and Gender

ABSTRACT Addressing the issues of gender and development in the 1990s seems to us to require a return to major debates about the nature of political and economic power, the role of gender and the character of development. These debates have seen significant advances in the last ten years. A thorough grounding in this new (and old) thinking is needed before new syntheses can be constructed. To that end this paper explores the implications of new thinking in the areas of global restructuring, development and feminist analysis in the hope that this will inspire a more open, inclusive and multifaceted approach to the teaching, research and practice of development, especially for women.

Book Review: The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Martin J. Murray. London: Verso, 1994:

Martin Murray’s The Revolution Deferred aims to provide a coherent understanding of the broad economic, political, and social factors underlying the collapse of white rule in South Africa and to explore the question whether South African multi-racial democracy is a genuine &dquo;new beginning&dquo; or simply a reconfiguration of the physiognomy of class forces long dominant in the South African political