Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies: Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections

Gudrun Lachenmann; Petra Dannecker

doi:10.5771/9780739145869

Summary

Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies explores the negotiation processes of global development concepts such as poverty alleviation, human rights, and gender equality. It focuses on three countries which that are undergoing different Islamisation processes: Senegal, Sudan, and Malaysia. While much has been written about the hegemonic production and discursive struggle of development concepts globally, this book analyzes the negotiation of these development concepts locally and translocally. Lachenmann and Dannecker present empirically grounded research to show that, although women are instrumentalized in different ways for the formation of an Islamic identity of a nation or group, they are at the same time important actors and agents in the processes of negotiating the meaning of development, restructuring of the public sphere, and transforming the societal gender order.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2008
Copyright Year: 2008
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-2619-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4586-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 270
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. List of Abbreviations No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Ch01. Researching Translocal GenderedSpaces: Methodological Challenges No access
1. Ch02. Women’s Organisations CreatingSocial Space in Senegal No access
2. Ch03. Women’s Organisations and SocialTransformation in Malaysia: BetweenSocial Work and Legal Reforms No access
3. Ch04. Women’s Organisations and TheirAgendas in Sudan: Interfaces inDifferent Arenas No access
4. Ch05. Women’s Organisations and theReshaping of the Public Sphere:A Comparative Analysis No access
1. Ch06. Negotiating Women’s Rights fromMultiple Perspectives:The Campaign for the Reformof Family Law in Senegal No access
2. Ch07. Negotiating Women’s Rights ina Translocal Space: Women’sOrganisations and Networkingin Malaysia No access
3. Ch08. Negotiating Peace and Rights inSudan: Networking for the Agendaof “Violence Against Women” No access
1. Ch09. Diversified Development: Women’sAgency and the Constitution ofTranslocal Spaces No access
Bibliography No access Pages 247 - 260
Index No access Pages 261 - 266
About the Contributors No access Pages 267 - 270