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Women, Urbanization and Sustainability
Anita . Ed(S): Lacey
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Hardback. Editor(s): Lacey, Anita. Series: Gender, Development and Social Change. Num Pages: 250 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; KCM; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of ... Read more
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Development and Social Change
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349951819
SKU
V9781349951819
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About Anita . Ed(S): Lacey
Anita Lacey is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an activist academic and her research, teaching and activism intersect. She has published on the governance of global poverty and the new global aid regime, on resistances to neoliberal globalization, non-governmental organizations, feminist teaching praxis, protest and gendered protest spaces, mobility, and development ... Read more
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