Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46123-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Inner Asia Book Series

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about the sudden expansion of the ‘developing world’, as the populations of many of the former Soviet republics were abruptly plunged into poverty and international development agencies rushed to their aid. In this account of development intervention since 1991 in Kyrgyzstan, one of these republics, Joanna Pares Hoare draws on feminist critiques to chart how concepts of gender equality, civil society, and activism came to be instrumentalised in development interventions in the post-Soviet space. Ethnographic data gathered through interviews and observation with employees and volunteers in local NGOs provides further insight into what this has meant for activists in Kyrgyzstan who are striving for progressive social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pares Hoare, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Pares Hoare, PhD (2014), SOAS University of London, works independently as a research consultant in international development. She has published articles on gender and activism in Kyrgyzstan, most recently in the edited volume Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities (Richard C.M. Mole, ed., Routledge, 2019).