Women, Urbanization and Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Anita Lacey

   Pages 1-14

3. Contesting Livelihoods, Land and Tenure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Urban Labour and Livelihoods: Women, Postcolonial Developmental Governance and Rapid Employment Programmes in Honiara and Port Moresby

      • Anita Lacey

      Pages 17-42

   3. Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject

      • Lisa Tilley

      Pages 43-65

   4. Barrio Women’s Gendering Practices for Sustainable Urbanism in Caracas, Venezuela

      • Juan Velasquez Atehortua

      Pages 67-89

4. Resisting Water and Food Insecurity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Relational Trajectories of Urban Water Poverty in Lima and Dar es Salaam

      • Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann

      Pages 93-117

   3. What Is Being Sustained? Sustainability and Food Exchange Sites in Istanbul

      • Candan Turkkan

      Pages 119-153

5. Forging Women’s Rights to the City

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Politics of Urban Space: Rethinking Urban Inclusion and the Right to the City

      • Sudha Mohan

      Pages 157-177

   3. Disabled Women, Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Africa

      • Tsitsi Chataika

      Pages 179-198

   4. Fragile Cities and Gender Based Violence: The Case of Rio de Janeiro

      • Renata A. Giannini, Peter McNamee, Giovanna B. de Miranda

      Pages 199-219

   5. Gender Justice and the Politics of Sexual Harassment in Cairo

      • Hala Nasr

      Pages 221-245

6. Back Matter

   Pages 247-298

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This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women’s experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.  

• Urbanization
• Women
• Gender
• Sustainability
• Cities
• Development
• Postcolonialism

• Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  Anita Lacey

Anita Lacey is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an activist academic and her research, teaching and activism intersect. She has published on the governance of global poverty and the new global aid regime, on resistances to neoliberal globalization, non-governmental organizations, feminist teaching praxis, protest and gendered protest spaces, mobility, and development and women’s livelihoods.

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