Culture and Identity

Selected papers from the Development online archive

In 2009, Volume 52 of Development is devoted to 'Culture and Identity'. The four issues focus on 'Sexuality and Development', 'Power, Movements and Change', 'Beyond Markets', and 'Xenophobia, Culture and Identity'.

To accompany the Volume, a selection of leading papers has been made freely available from past issues of Development. The authors, from the UK, Colombia, Uganda, Mexico, Northern Ireland and Australia, offer their views and perceptions on the role that culture and identity plays in different contexts, whether it is by helping to solve conflict in Northern Ireland, affirming rights of Mexican indigenous women or building a common identity for women living under Muslim law.

For free access to these articles click on the links below.

Lead Article: Women and the Politics of Place FREE

Volume 45 Number 1: Place, Politics and Justice: Women negotiating globalization (2002)
Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar introduce an analysis of women's political organizing in the context of globalization

Looking from the South, Speaking from Home: African women confronting development FREE

Volume 43 Number 4: 'Past', 'Post' and 'Future' of Development (2000)
Jessica Horn takes a politics of place approach to African women's needs

Naming the Cinderella's of Development: Violence and women's autonomy in Mexico FREE

Volume 47 Number 1: The Violence of Development (2004)
Marisa Belausteguigoitia analyzes the struggle for female autonomy among indigenous women in Mexico

The Network 'Women Living Under Muslim Laws': Strengthening local struggles through cross-boundary networking FREE

Volume 45 Number 1: Place, Politics and Justice: Women negotiating globalization (2002)
Cassandra Balchin looks at the growth of identity politics and a transnational feminist response to globalization

Northern Ireland: Changing perceptions of the 'other' FREE

Volume 43 Number 3: People's Peace Movements (2000)
Mari Fitzduff and Cathy Gormley outline how it is possible to change perception of the 'enemy'

These articles represent just a small selection of the material as a teaser to the in depth and focused Volume on culture and identity in 2009. For more information go to:
www.palgrave-journals.com/development/archive/2009_issues.html