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Rai, Shirin (2004) Gendering global governance. International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol.6 (No.4). pp. 579-601. doi:10.1080/1461674042000283345 ISSN 1461-6742.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461674042000283345
Abstract
In this article I map out the major debates on global governance and the feminist critiques of the mainstream interventions in these debates. I argue that the shift from government to governance is a response to the needs of a gendered global capitalist economy and is shaped by struggles, both discursive and material, against the unfolding consequences of globalization. I suggest feminist interrogations of the concept, processes, practices and mechanisms of governance and the insights that develop from them should be centrally incorporated into critical revisionist and radical discourses of and against the concept of global governance. However, I also examine the challenges that the concept of global governance poses for feminist political practice, which are both of scholarship and of activism as feminists struggle to address the possibilities and politics of alternatives to the current regimes of governance. I conclude by suggesting that feminist political practice needs to focus on the politics of redistribution in the context of global governance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political science -- Philosophy, Feminist theory -- Political aspects, Democratization, Neoliberalism, International relations | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Feminist Journal of Politics | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1461-6742 | ||||
Official Date: | December 2004 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.6 | ||||
Number: | No.4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 579-601 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1461674042000283345 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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