Gender and Development: Perspectives from Australia and the Pacific

This edited book critically examines if and how Gender and Development can address the contemporary challenges of the 21st century, focusing on the perspectives of scholars and practitioners from Australia and the Pacific. While Gender and Development has been highly influential, it is not without criticism. Gender and Development has been critiqued for giving insufficient attention to intersectionality and the racial and colonial dimensions of 'development', as well as issues of sexuality and sexual diversity. This book ties together current theory and specific case studies, to showcase how Gender and Development has been practiced in the region and how it can be further developed and improved. With the core principles of Gender and Development remaining salient for today, this book provides unique insights as to how Gender and Development can be revitalised for scholars of development studies, gender studies, sociology, political science, geography, law and public policy.

Annabel Dulhunty is Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. She is a development studies and social policy scholar. Annabel is an Executive Committee Member of the Development Studies Association of Australia. Annabel draws on her extensive experience as an aid practitioner in the Pacific, Latin America, Africa and South Asia to guide her research on global gender equality, human rights and social justice. 

Sharon Bessell is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. She is the Director of the Children’s Policy Centre and co-host of Policy Forum Pod. Sharon's research focuses on the gendered and generational nature of poverty. She previously co-led the Individual Deprivation Measure project, which focused on gender sensitive measurement of poverty, and is currently leading the More for Children project, which aims to understand and respond to children’s experiences of poverty. Sharon is internationally recognised as an award-winning leader in rights-based research methodologies and ethics.