Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop an empirically informed conceptual
framework to analyse the gendered relationship between empowerment and …

Transnational mothers working in foreign countries face the challenges of providing
“intensive” mothering to their children from a distance, and risk being subject to the …

Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community:
the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international …

In 1992 the two of us were colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We had lots
of talks and debates about archaeology at lunch, between classes, and in each other's …

This paper demonstrates weaknesses in the ability of orthodox microenterprise development
theory to represent issues relevant to women's success in the sector. Researchers tend to …

Mobile phones were introduced to rural midwives in tsunami-affected Indonesia, allowing
them to contact medical experts and communicate with patients. Ninety-two interviews were …

Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in
development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together …

The popularity of 'participation'and 'empowerment'in international development discourse is
not matched by sophisticated conceptualisation of these terms. Critics have argued that their …

The concept of complexity demands theoretical elaboration, especially in regard to
decentralized social formations such as the Bronze Age chiefdoms of northern Europe …

What is power? How does it work? Is power in politically complex societies always
constituted in the same, repeated ways, with variation only in the contextual details? This …