Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Pathways to transformation
Redaktion: Moser, Caroline O. N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. However, despite increasing recognition of the critical relationship between economic and social development in cities, gender issues are often overlooked in understanding the complexities of current urbanisation processes. This book seeks to rectify this neglect.

Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities explores the contribution that a focus on the gendered nature of asset accumulation brings to the goal of achieving just, more equitable cities. To date neither the academic debates nor the formulated policy and practice on just cities has included a focus on gender-based inequalities, discriminations, or opportunities. From a gender perspective, a separate discourse exists, closely associated with gender justice, particularly in relation to urban rights and democracy. Neither, however, has addressed the implications for women's accumulation of assets and associated empowerment for transformational pathways to just cities.

In this book, contributors specifically focus on gender and just cities from a wide range of gendered perspectives that include households, housing, land, gender-based violence, transport, climate, and disasters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317689492
• Artikelnr.: 43978423

Autorenporträt

Caroline O.N. Moser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, UK, and Advisor to the Ford Foundation New York Just Cities Initiative, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: towards a nexus linking gender, assets and
transformational pathways to just cities 2. Female household headship as an
asset? Interrogating the intersections of urbanisation, gender and domestic
transformations 3. Longitudinal and intergenerational perspectives on
gendered asset accumulation in Indio Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador 4. Key
drivers of asset erosion and accumulation in informal employment: findings
from the Informal Economy Monitoring Study 5. Addressing gendered
inequalities in access to land and housing 6. The gendered contradictions
in South Africa's state housing: accumulation or erosion of housing as an
asset 7. 'The devil's in the detail': understanding how housing assets
contribute to gender just cities 8. Routes to the just city: towards gender
equality in transport planning 9. Gender-based violence and assets in just
cities: triggers and transformation 10. The gendered destruction and
reconstruction of assets and the transformative potential of 'disasters'
11. Challenging stereotypes about gendered vulnerability to climate change:
asset adaption in Mombasa and Cartagena