Kathleen Staudt

Women, international development, and politics : the bureaucratic mire

In the seven years since the first edition of this book, global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents. Unfortunately, those transitions have often failed to improve the situation of women, and democratic practices have not included women in government, homes, and workplaces. At the same time, non-governmental organizations have continued to expand a policy agenda with a concern for women, thanks to the Fourth World Congress on Women and a series of United Nations-affiliated meetings leading up to the one on population and development in Cairo in 1994 and, most important, the Beijing Conference in December 1995, attended by 50,000 people. Two new essays and a new conclusion reflect the upsurge of interest in women and development since 1990. An introductory essay by Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz focuses on the conflict over the term gender at the Beijing Conference and the continuing divisions between conservative women and feminists and also between representatives of the North and South.

Managing development : state, society, and international contexts

Introduction to Development Management PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT CONTEXTS Development Conceptions From and About People at the Grassroots The Cultural Context The Political Context Transitions I Project and Program Preparation Transitions II Project/Program Selection and Evaluation PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS Development Management at the National Level International Development Agencies Non-Governmental Organizations Transitions Toward Organizational Change PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT SECTORS Agricultural Programs Health Reproductive, Preventive and Curative Dimensions Closing Perspectives on Development Management

The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities

Exploring the construction of spatial lines and zones in physical, social, and academic terms, this volume presents the US-Mexico border as a site from which to survey both the social and economic networks and the issues of identity and symbolism that surround borders.

Pledging allegiance : learning nationalism at the El Paso-Juárez border

1. Introduction: Public Schools and Nationalism 2. Contextualizing Nationalism and Education 3. Nationalism, Civic and Education 4. Classroom Organization and Management: Lessons on Civics 5. Bilingualism: Language and Policy Use 6. Technology: Control and Autonomy 7. Conclusions

Women and Sustainable Development in Africa

Introduction - Sustaining Womens Efforts in Africas Development by Valentine Udoh James The Current and Future Directions for African Women Farmers by Valentine Udoh James and Melanie Marshall James Listening to and Learning From African Women Farmers by Mary Theresa Picard Designing Gender Specific Interventions in Zaire - A Social Science Perspective by Gloria Braxton Socio-Cultural Aspects of Ethiopian Womens Contributions to Agriculture by Barbara A. Dicks and Eddle Senay Bogale Women in Commercial Agriculture - The Cocoa Economy of Southern Ghana by Benjamin Asare Participation of Rural Women in Malawi National Rural Development Program by Grace Margaret Malindi Increasing Female Household-Head Participation in Agricultural Extension in Malawi by Vickie A. Sigman Agrarian Women and Indigenous Textile Industry in Nigeria by Amakievi O.I. Gabriel and Augustine A. Ikein African Women in Production - The Economic Role of Rural Women by Jonathan Nwomonoh.

Struggles in Urban Space Street Vendors in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez

The author compares the hierarchical variety of businesses that struggle over downtown urban space with the official agencies that regulate that space in two sister cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. For each city, the conflict is analyzed, as is the diversity of businesses and their public presentations. The analysis reveals how political machinery and public discourse affect the outcomes of conflicts. After engagement in the political process, El Paso vendors face drastic increases in business costs, and Juirez vendors perpetuate a short-term standoff with the conservative opposition government.

Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

This chapter introduces the book and its conceptual framework. The US-Mexico border region is defined as a geographic, economic, cultural, and social region that is affected by systematic social and economic injustice that has resulted in the social and economic problems that are evident throughout the region, including poverty, health inequities, and low-wage assembly, service, and agricultural employment. The endemic poverty coexists with institutional racism and gender violence. The region, while populated by resilient families and communities that have long confronted governmental neglect and social isolation, is at the periphery of the American economy. A brief summary of the history of the US-Mexico border region is included. The border region is distinct in its Mexican-American majority population, its location on a semi-porous border through which people and commodities flow under the close scrutiny of a huge law enforcement presence that further marginalizes residents on each side of the border. This chapter describes the social construction of events on the border as a “moral panic” in which immigrants are caricatured and the drug war is seen in apocalyptic terms.

An Introduction to the Multiple US–Mexico Borders

Abstract In this, a thematic issue on multiple borders, our goal is to unpack the lengthy border to explore differences and similarities from the western industrialized Tijuana–San Diego Pacific coastal region, the de-populated Sonora–Arizona desert, the densely settled global manufacturing central Paso del Norte site, and the agricultural spaces and smaller urban settlements of South Texas–northeastern Mexico. This thematic volume includes seven articles that not only reveal contextual differences at “multiple” US–Mexico borders, but also the overarching themes of violence and dehumanization from media and policy constructions—that are derived from constant trans-border flows, both legal and illicit. The relevant differences complicate public policy impacts, social and environmental issues, and action strategies for the future, posing intriguing new research with implications for borderlands in other world regions. In unpacking the lengthy US–Mexico border to analyze differences, we hope to stimulate thinking about other borderlands around the world for which overgeneralizations may have also been made, just as with the research on the US–Mexico borderlands.

Surviving domestic violence in the Paso del Norte border region

The U.S.-Mexico border directs considerable media attention toward violence and drugs. Usually, this attention is oblivious to gender: whether victims and aggressors are male or female. However, with the shocking rise of femicide—the murder of 370 girls and women from 1993–2003—people began to consider borders as magnets for opportunities and threats to women (Staudt 2008). Olivia Ruiz Marrujo (2009) examines borders, both those dividing the United States. and Mexico and Mexico and Guatemala, as spaces of eroticized sexual violence. In this chapter, we examine women’s experiences with grim, normalized, everyday violence in spatial terms at the Paso del Norte border, a large, two-million person metropolitan region of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, which are immediately adjacent to each other.

Investing or Squandering Social Capital? Community-Based Organizations for Indigent Health Care

Abstract Externally funded collaboratives are compared in a US–Mexico border location, focusing on the local commitments that are made in financial and social capital for long-term sustainability. The border offers special challenges to sustainable health care programs, given the substantial crossing that occurs among health care users in both North-to-South and South-to-North directions. Funding organizations that decentralize programs to community collaboratives, demanding considerable local leverage and in-kind contributions, create a pernicious tax on poor communities in the name of building community capacity. Despite good intentions, precious community social capital is squandered.