3rd Edition
Gender and Global Restructurings Sightings, Sites and Resistances
In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings.
Through fresh intersectional feminist analyses of widening health, climate, care, inequality, democracy and knowledge crises since the Great Financial Crisis and the deepening of many forms of capitalism, this volume stresses the complexities of multiple restructurings which demand new ways to think across sightings, sites and resistances. Some of each of these elements are in every chapter, which take the reader to different sightings, such as of neoliberalizations, neoauthoritarianizations, multipolarizations, financializations and migrations. They also bring into view different geographic sites, such as Hong Kong, sub-Saharan and North Africa, Canada, Mexico, Bangladesh and the trade blocs of the European Union and the BRICs, and different non-geographic sites such as productive and reproductive economies and the virtual economy of finance and digitalization. They further highlight different forms of women’s and feminist resistance, such as local and national labor organizing, regional and multipolar organizing, reimagining infrastructure design and broadening non-capitalist community and solidarity economies. Many chapters critique problematic constructions of women’s empowerment, and all challenge the machinations of neoliberal capital that undermine most women, marginalized peoples and the planet.
Providing a coherent and challenging approach to contemporary gendered globalization, better understood as global restructurings, since the last edition over a decade ago, Gender and Global Restructurings will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE, international relations, economics, development and gender studies.
1. Introduction: Gender and Global Restructurings: Sightings, Sites and Resistances
Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan
2. Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong
(with preface by Kimberly A. Chang in remembrance of L.H.M. Ling)
Kimberly A. Chang and L.H.M. Ling
3. Labor here, consume there, accumulate everywhere: improvisations of mobile capital and gendered labor along the Philippine-Canada migration corridor
Pauline Gardiner Barber and Catherine Bryan
4. “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”: getting development out of the (RED)™?
Michelle V. Rowley
5. The gendered imperatives of the financialization of remittances in Mexico: listening to the subjects-to-be-financialized
Rahel Kunz and Brenda Ramirez
6. Restructuring, revolution, and women’s elusive economic empowerment: the case of Tunisia
Valentine M. Moghadam
7. “Empowerment” training for women workers in Bangladesh’s garment factories: corporate social (ir)responsibility (SIR)
Laura Dudley Jenkins
8. Inclusive innovation: feminist perspectives
Gillian Youngs
9. Engagements with multipolarity: sites and struggles of African-Chinese cooperation
Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
10. Transnational feminist networks resisting economic restructuring: the cases of WIDE/WIDE+ and BRICS Feminist Watch
Edmé Dominguez Reyes
11. Moving past the co-optation narrative: gender and development as a site of economic difference and ethical negotiation
Suzanne Bergeron
Biography
Marianne H. Marchand has recently retired from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, where she held a chair in international relations and directed the Canadian Studies Program. She is currently an adjunct research professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Canada, after having held a visiting professorship there. In addition, she is widely recognized in the Americas for her scholarship on feminist international relations and is a member of the UNU-CRIS Hub México – CIDE, as well as academic editor of Third World Quarterly, one of the most important academic journals on issues related to the Global South.
Anne Sisson Runyan is Professor Emerita in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, USA. A recognized eminent scholar in the field of feminist international relations, she has published widely in the areas of feminist international political economy and peace and security studies, held multiple fellowships and a Fulbright Research Chair position, headed women’s studies and politics departments and served in leadership roles for the International Studies Association, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the American Association of University Professors.
"In this era of multiple and overlapping crises – social, health, ecological, military, economic, political and others – a new edition of Marchand and Runyan’s classic collection could not be more timely. Completely revised, this new edition provides critical and cutting-edge analysis of the gendered nature of the global economy and the ways in which it is being restructured. Contributors to the volume do not leave us in despair, but also provide insights into specific examples of women’s and feminist resistances to neoliberal and neoauthoritarian policies and practices. As these authors show, these creative and inclusive forms of resistance have the potential to dislodge and subvert dominant actors and provide hope for more egalitarian and sustainable futures."
Laura Macdonald, Professor, Department of Political Science and Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada
"Gender and Global Restructurings, in its third edition is a timely, robust and nuanced feminist response to capitalism's various crises and how we can understand and resist these. In its reach, analyses and hopes it underlines the importance of feminist work on global capitalism and its pitfalls in its intersectional manifestations as well as how these pitfalls can be addressed through activism and solidarity. A book that clearly responds to the biggest challenges of our times and will therefore be of interest to students and all those who wish to understand our current dilemmas."
Shirin Rai, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, SOAS University of London, UK
"This third edition of Gender and Global Restructurings, which includes several new chapters, powerfully reminds us of the many ways global capitalism intertwines with so many other processes of our time: From racial, homo-, and disaster capitalism to philanthro-, surveillance, and gore capitalisms, the feminist scholars in this volume continue to call out the most problematic capitalist logics and seek ways to imagine more just socioeconomic, political, and ecological futures for us all."
Amy Lind, Mary Ellen Heintz Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and former Director of the Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, USA; one of the Editors-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics
