This paper demonstrates that materiality-or the physical conditions and dimensions of water
access-and a'lived experiences' approach are powerful analytical tools for context-specific …

Corporate sponsors and humanitarian organizations have joined popular authors and
international institutions in bringing attention to gender inequality though “smart economics” …

This article explores the limitations of a rights focus for furthering women's claims for social
change and, more specifically, as a focus for mobilising women around these claims. It …

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights
in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights …

My doctoral research has explored how young children's participation was put into practice—
how it was 'lived'and negotiated—in the context of one early learning and childcare setting …

South Africa has been undergoing significant changes over the past three decades with the
dismantlement of the apartheid state, followed by a series of socio-political and economic …

In this dissertation, I offer a more rigorous theoretical and practical understanding of the
rights based approach (RBA) vis-à-vis other approaches to international development. I …

This chapter suggests that the nature of the modern homo sacer is exemplified by the
problematic dystopian imaginaries that circle some Roma peoples, and that these …

The recognition of the right to water as a universal human right marks a milestone in the
realm of water governance, and yet scholars and policy makers continue to debate the …

This PhD by portfolio consists of a Handbook for training men from Pacific countries to be
advocates for women's rights and the elimination of violence against women, and an …