Girls, Power and International Development

Agency and Activism in the Global North and South
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3845-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the Global North to see themselves as the saviours of their Southern counterparts.

Drawing on focus groups with Girl Up members from the UK, US and Malawi, this book demonstrates how girls reflect critically on the Girl Up discourse, reject its individualistic vision of girls’ empowerment and interact with their Northern/Southern counterparts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect. Its analysis demonstrates how the girls use participation in the campaign to develop their own more complex, radical and collective visions of girls’ empowerment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walters, Rosie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Mobilität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Girl in Global Politics

3. Feminist Activism Within and Against Neoliberalism

4. The Girl Up Discourse

5. ‘We Need to Talk’: Celebrity Feminism and Girls’ Activism amid Global Crisis

6. Girls’ Readings of Girl Up

7. Girl Up Members’ Feminist Activism

8. Ubuntu Feminism in a Lilongwean Girl Up Club

9. ‘It’s Like, Do You Wanna Go to Girl Up or Do You Wanna Go to Tesco?’: Ambivalent Activism in the Global North

10. Crossing North–South Divides in Research with Girl Activists

11. Conclusions: Hope and False Hope in the Fight for Girls’ Rights

Über Autor(innen)

Walters, Rosie
Rosie Walters is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.

Rosie Walters is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics with research interests in feminist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches to international relations.