Gender and Global Restructurings

Marianne H. Marchand recently retired from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, where she held a chair in international relations and directed the Canadian Studies Program. She is currently an adjunct research professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Canada, after having held a visiting professorship there. In addition, she is widely recognized in the Americas for her scholarship on feminist international relations and is a member of the UNU-CRIS Hub México–CIDE, as well as academic editor of Third World Quarterly, one of the most important academic journals on issues related to the Global South. Anne Sisson Runyan is Professor Emerita in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, USA. A recognized eminent scholar in the field of feminist international relations, she has published widely in the areas of feminist international political economy and peace and security studies, held multiple fellowships and a Fulbright Research Chair position, headed women’s studies and politics departments, and served in leadership roles for the International Studies Association, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the American Association of University Professors.

1. Introduction: Gender and Global Restructurings: Sightings, Sites and Resistances 2. Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong (with preface by Kimberly A. Chang in remembrance of L.H.M. Ling) 3. Labor here, consume there, accumulate everywhere: improvisations of mobile capital and gendered labor along the Philippine-Canada migration corridor 4. “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”: getting development out of the (RED)™? 5. The gendered imperatives of the financialization of remittances in Mexico: listening to the subjects-to-be-financialized 6. Restructuring, revolution, and women’s elusive economic empowerment: the case of Tunisia 7. “Empowerment” training for women workers in Bangladesh’s garment factories: corporate social (ir)responsibility (SIR) 8. Inclusive innovation: feminist perspectives 9. Engagements with multipolarity: sites and struggles of African-Chinese cooperation 10. Transnational feminist networks resisting economic restructuring: the cases of WIDE/WIDE+ and BRICS Feminist Watch 11. Moving past the co-optation narrative: gender and development as a site of economic difference and ethical negotiation Index