Women, urbanization and sustainability : practices of survival, adaptation and resistance

• Main Author: Lacey , Anita
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Political science; Urban women > Social conditions; Sustainable urban development; Sustainable urban development; Urban women > Social conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE Government General; POLITICAL SCIENCE Government Nat; 320
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/81217
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Contents: Introduction Anita Lacey -- Part I. Contesting livelihoods, land and tenure -- Urban labour and livelihoods: women, postcolonial developmental governance and rapid employment programmes in Honiara and Port Moresby Anita Lacey -- Immanent politics in the Kampungs: gendering, performing and mapping the Jakarta economic subject Lisa Tilley -- Barrio women's gendering practices for sustainable urbanism in Caracas, Venezuela Juan Velasquez Atehortua -- Part II. Resisting water and food insecurity -- Relational trajectories of urban water poverty in Lima and Dar es Salaam Adriana Allen and Pascale Hofmann -- What is being sustained? Sustainability and food exchange sites in Istanbul Candan Turkkan -- Part III. Forging women's rights to the city -- Politics of urban space: rethinking urban inclusion and the right to the city Sudha Mohan -- Disabled women, urbanization, and sustainable development in Africa Tsitsi Chataika -- Fragile cities and gender based violence: the case of Rio de Janeiro Renata A. Giannini, Peter McNamee, and Giovanna B. de Miranda -- Gender justice and the politics of sexual harassment in Cairo Hala Nasr.