Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy

Engendering Development demonstrates how gender is a form of inequality that is used to generate global capitalist development. It charts the histories of gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality as categories of inequality under imperialism, which continue to support the accumulation of capital in the global economy today.

Author: Amy Trauger,Jennifer L. Fluri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/01/2019
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9780415789677

About the Author

Amy Trauger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia, USA. She has published more than 20 journal articles on gender, labor and sustainability in agriculture, organic food supply chains and food sovereignty. She is the author of We Want Land to Live! Making Political Space for Life. She edited Food Sovereignty in International Context, published by Earthscan/Routledge, and is a co-editor of Making Policy for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Markets and the State with Priscilla Claeys and Annette Desmarais, also published by Earthscan/Routledge.

Jennifer L. Fluri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has over 20 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals. Internationally, her research focuses on gender, geopolitics and international development in Afghanistan. In Colorado, she co-directs the Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative, a collaborative and service-based research project (Colorado.edu/BAHRI). She has co-authored two books, Carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan Entanglements with Rachel Lehr, and Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context with Ann Oberhauser, Risa Whiston and Sharlene Mollett. She is the co-editor, with Katharyne Mitchell and Reece Jones, of the Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration.