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Development in an insecure and gendered world

the relevance of the Millennium Goals

ed. by Jacqueline Leckie

Buch

englisch

Leckie, Jacqueline (Ed.) DNB

Ashgate

Farnham, England

2009

xviii, 246 p.

978-0-7546-7691-1

includes index.

security
women
gender
pacific
development

Contents: Development, gender and security in a new millennium / Bare Life as a Development/Postcolonial Problematic / Fine words, failed policies: gender mainstreaming in an insecure and unequal world / The macroeconomics of human insecurity: why gender matters / Gender and social justice beyond the millennium development goals: challenging human insecurity / Costly development? Gendered insecurity in a militarized Pacific / Development and security: Aotearoa/New Zealand and the millennium goals / Gender security and trade: the millennium development goals in the Pacific / 'Trade driven development': contradictions and insecurity for the Pacific Islands / Reformasi, environmental security and development in Indonesia / Mexico's commitment to development and human security in the new millennium / Trade, aid or what? reflections on development and security /
Summary:


The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women. The most relevant and contentious is that of promoting gender equality and empowering women. The book provides an overview of this and investigates literature that considers how gender is central to achieving the other goals. The contributors distinctively consider gender in the context of human security (or insecurity); the reduction and elimination of conflict would seem to be central to achieving targets. One of the major themes of this collection is whether gender insecurity has been exacerbated in an increasingly insecure world. The book considers not only military and civilian conflict in the contemporary era but also security in the broader sense of human development, such as environmental, reproductive and economic security.

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