Girls, Power and International Development

Agency and Activism in the Global North and South

AvRosie Walters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the Global North to see themselves as the saviours of their Southern counterparts. Drawing on focus groups with Girl Up members from the UK, US and Malawi, this book demonstrates how girls reflect critically on the Girl Up discourse, reject its individualistic vision of girls’ empowerment and interact with their Northern/Southern counterparts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect. Its analysis demonstrates how the girls use participation in the campaign to develop their own more complex, radical and collective visions of girls’ empowerment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529238457

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Rosie Walters is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.

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‘Walters provides an original and sophisticated analysis of the girlpowering of international development that substantially advances debates across a range of fields and makes for essential reading.' Adrienne Roberts, The University of Manchester

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction2. The Girl in Global Politics3. Feminist Activism Within and Against Neoliberalism4. The Girl Up Discourse5. ‘We Need to Talk’: Celebrity Feminism and Girls’ Activism amid Global Crisis6. Girls’ Readings of Girl Up7. Girl Up Members’ Feminist Activism8. Ubuntu Feminism in a Lilongwean Girl Up Club9. ‘It’s Like, Do You Wanna Go to Girl Up or Do You Wanna Go to Tesco?’: Ambivalent Activism in the Global North10. Crossing North–South Divides in Research with Girl Activists11. Conclusions: Hope and False Hope in the Fight for Girls’ Rights