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Andrea Cornwall's Outputs (47)

Rethinking 'citizenship' in the postcolony (2008)
Journal Article
Robins, S., Cornwall, A., & von Lieres, B. (2008). Rethinking 'citizenship' in the postcolony. Third World Quarterly, 29(6), 1069-1086. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590802201048

This paper argues for an approach to researching citizenship and democracy that begins not from normative convictions but from everyday experiences in particular social, cultural and historical contexts. The paper starts with a consideration of the w... Read More about Rethinking 'citizenship' in the postcolony.

Introduction: Putting unsafe abortion on the development agenda (2008)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., Standing, H., & Lynch, A. (2008). Introduction: Putting unsafe abortion on the development agenda. IDS Bulletin, 39(3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2008.tb00456.x

This introductory article argues that the interlinked Issues of legal reform, the provision of accessible and affordable services and the strengthening of women's capacities to exercise agency over their own bodies make safe abortion a development is... Read More about Introduction: Putting unsafe abortion on the development agenda.

Engaging citizens: lessons from building Brazil's national health system (2008)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., & Shankland, A. (2008). Engaging citizens: lessons from building Brazil's national health system. Social Science & Medicine, 66(10), 2173-2184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.038

Brazil's Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS), a universal, publicly-funded, rights-based health system, designed and put in place in an era where neo-liberal reforms elsewhere in the world have driven the marketization of health services, offers important l... Read More about Engaging citizens: lessons from building Brazil's national health system.

Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth (2008)
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Kabeer, N., Eyben, R., & Cornwall, A. (2008). Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth

This paper proposes a framework for how empowerment can be conceptually understood and operationally explored. It makes recommendations for forthcoming areas of work within the POVNET Work Programme on empowering poor women and men to participate in,... Read More about Conceptualising Empowerment and the Implications for Pro-Poor Growth.

Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices (2008)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2008). Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices. Community Development Journal, 43(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsn010

The world over, public institutions appear to be responding to the calls voiced by activists, development practitioners and progressive thinkers for greater public involvement in making the decisions that matter and holding governments to account for... Read More about Unpacking 'Participation': models, meanings and practices.

Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development (2008)
Book
Cornwall, A., Correa, S., & Jolly, S. (Eds.). (2008). Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350219588

This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offers inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaign... Read More about Development with a body: sexuality, human rights and development.

Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders (2007)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2007). Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2007.00007.x

Women's economic empowerment has come to play an increasingly prominent role in the policies of mainstream development agencies. This article draws on fieldwork amongst small‐scale traders in southwestern Nigeria to suggest that the capacity of trade... Read More about Of choice, chance and contingency: ‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders.

Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development (2007)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (2007). Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development. Development and Change, 38(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00400.x

Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relati... Read More about Gender myths and feminist fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development.

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development (2007)
Book
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2007). Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444306675

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. - Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often tur... Read More about Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development.

Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges (2007)
Book
Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2007). Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350220089

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Y... Read More about Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations and challenges.

Historical perspectives on participation in development (2006)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2006). Historical perspectives on participation in development. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 44(1), 62-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662040600624460

Participation in development came to be popularised in the 1990s as a novel, common-sense way to address a range of development ills. Its institutionalisation over the course of that decade in the discourses, if not the practices, of many mainstream... Read More about Historical perspectives on participation in development.

Democratizing Democracy: Feminist Perspectives (2005)
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Cornwall, A., & Goetz, A.-M. (2005). Democratizing Democracy: Feminist Perspectives. Democratization, 12(5), 783-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510340500322181

Increasing numbers of women have gained entry into the arena of representative politics in recent times. Yet the extent to which shifts in the sex ratio within formal democratic spaces translates into political influence, and into gains in policies t... Read More about Democratizing Democracy: Feminist Perspectives.

What do buzzwords do for development policy: a critical look at "participation", "poverty reduction" and "empowerment" (2005)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., & Brock, K. (2005). What do buzzwords do for development policy: a critical look at "participation", "poverty reduction" and "empowerment". Third World Quarterly, 26(7), 1043-1060. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500235603

In the fast-moving world of development policy, buzzwords play an important part in framing solutions. Today's development orthodoxies are captured in a seductive mix of such words, among which ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’ t... Read More about What do buzzwords do for development policy: a critical look at "participation", "poverty reduction" and "empowerment".

Whose voices? Whose choices? Reflections on gender and participatory development (2003)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2003). Whose voices? Whose choices? Reflections on gender and participatory development. World Development, 31(8), 1325-1342. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X%2803%2900086-X

Efforts to promote participation in projects, programs and policy consultation would appear to offer the prospect of giving everyone who has a stake a voice and a choice. But community-driven development, participatory planning and other fine-soundin... Read More about Whose voices? Whose choices? Reflections on gender and participatory development.