All Outputs (22)

Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance (2024)
Journal Article
Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A., Hafez, S., & Singh, N. S. (2024). Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(10), Article e0003566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003566

Despite growing calls and efforts to decolonise global and humanitarian health, there is limited practical guidance for researchers, educators and practitioners on how to do so. This paper fills this gap by offering a narrative exploration of key rec... Read More about Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

The mental health crisis among Afghan women and girls (2023)
Report
Safi, M., & Rivas, A.-M. The mental health crisis among Afghan women and girls

Women and the Afghan peace and reintegration process (2022)
Journal Article
Rivas, A.-M., & Safi, M. (2022). Women and the Afghan peace and reintegration process. International Affairs, 98(1), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab227

In 2010, as the Afghan government announced its intention to begin a formal peace process, there were numerous calls for women to have a seat at the table. Both mainstream and critical discourse on women and the peace process in Afghanistan, however,... Read More about Women and the Afghan peace and reintegration process.

BAME Researcher Practices, Policies and Processes at UK Higher Education Institutions (2021)
Report
Rivas, A.-M., Beckles-Raymond, G., & Simpson Miller, B. (2021). BAME Researcher Practices, Policies and Processes at UK Higher Education Institutions

Holding the middle ground: Experiences of displacement, community relations, and conflict between IDPs, returnees and host communities in Herat, Nangarhar, and Takhar: A Scoping Report (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Rivas, A.-M., & Wardak, M. Holding the middle ground: Experiences of displacement, community relations, and conflict between IDPs, returnees and host communities in Herat, Nangarhar, and Takhar: A Scoping Report. Berlin and Kabul

No lockdown on violence against women and girls during COVID-19: a view from Peru (2020)
Digital Artefact
Rivas, A.-M., & Lopez Medina, C. (2020). No lockdown on violence against women and girls during COVID-19: a view from Peru. [Feminist Review Blog]

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention (2020)
Book
Rivas, A.-M. (2020). Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315306438

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both e... Read More about Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention.

A welcome from our new editors: change and continuity in politics and gender (2020)
Journal Article
Fortin-Rittberger, J., Wadia, K., Ayoub, P., & Rivas, A.-M. (2020). A welcome from our new editors: change and continuity in politics and gender. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(1), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X16067427021442

The Everyday Practices of Development (2018)
Book Chapter
Rivas, A.-M. (2018). The Everyday Practices of Development. In O. U. Rutazibwa, & R. Shilliam (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (166-196). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315671192-14

This chapter examines the ways in which the international development paradigm reproduces and reinforces racialised and gendered subjectivities and how these identities are constructed through everyday encounters where development takes place. It als... Read More about The Everyday Practices of Development.

Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted (2018)
Book
Rivas, A.-M., & Browne, B. C. (Eds.). (2018). Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337683.001.0001

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as... Read More about Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted.

Thinking about race and gender in conflict research (2018)
Book Chapter
Rivas, A.-M. (2018). Thinking about race and gender in conflict research. In A.-M. Rivas, & B. C. Browne (Eds.), Experiences in researching conflict and violence: fieldwork interrupted (135-142). Bristol University Press

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
Rivas, A.-M., & Browne, B. C. (2018). Introduction. In A.-M. Rivas, & B. C. Browne (Eds.), Experiences in researching conflict and violence: Fieldwork interrupted (1-12). Bristol University Press

The targeting effectiveness of social transfers (2017)
Journal Article
Devereux, S., Masset, E., Sabates-Wheeler, R., Samson, M., Rivas, A.-M., & te Lintelo, D. (2017). The targeting effectiveness of social transfers. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 9(2), 162-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2017.1305981

Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible for social transfers and those who are ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include means tests, proxy means tests, categorical, geographic, community-ba... Read More about The targeting effectiveness of social transfers.

Women in Politics, Part 2: Moving Forward — Supporting Gender-Inclusive Political Participation (2016)
Digital Artefact
Rivas, A.-M. (2016). Women in Politics, Part 2: Moving Forward — Supporting Gender-Inclusive Political Participation

Women in Politics, Part 1: Women, Inclusive Political Participation, and Canadian International Development Policy (2016)
Digital Artefact
Rivas, A.-M., & Bardall, G. Women in Politics, Part 1: Women, Inclusive Political Participation, and Canadian International Development Policy. Centre for International Policy Studies

Cross Cutting Evaluation of DFID's Approach to Remote Management in Somalia and Noth-East Kenya (2016)
Report
Rivas, A.-M. (2016). Cross Cutting Evaluation of DFID's Approach to Remote Management in Somalia and Noth-East Kenya

Evaluating the Targeting Effectiveness of Social Transfers: A Literature Review (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Devereux, S., Sabates-Wheeler, R., Masset, E., te Lintelo, D., & Rivas, A.-M. Evaluating the Targeting Effectiveness of Social Transfers: A Literature Review. Brighton

The role of donors in remote management in Somalia: eyes wide shut (2015)
Book Chapter
Rivas, A.-M. (2015). The role of donors in remote management in Somalia: eyes wide shut. In World disaster report 2015: local actors at the centre of effective humanitarian action (133-135). International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development (2015)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., & Rivas, A.-M. (2015). From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development. Third World Quarterly, 36(2), 396-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1013341

The language of “gender equality” and “women’s empowerment” was mobilised by feminists in the 1980s and 1990s as a way of getting women’s rights onto the international development agenda. Their efforts can be declared a resounding success. The intern... Read More about From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development.