Thank you to Pumla Dineo Gqola who shared a link to Gender & Development, Volume 32, Issue 1-2 (2024) on Facebook, with the message, “In the spirit of free feminist reading/access to information/free education/internationalist feminist solidarities, and thanks to the fantastic (previous and ongoing) efforts of feminists at Oxfam, …. The ENTIRE double issue of Gender and Development we (Gqola, Perera, Phadke, Shahrokni, Zaragocin, Satija, Ghosh) co-edited is now fully OPEN ACCESS.” The journal includes 27 essays on 26 countries, including the following:
Mexico – Gendered urban cycling and the ethics of caring: coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro, by María Ávila & Alejandro Zamora, about collectives of women cyclists.
Chile – Public spaces, street art, and the challenges of feminist ecological citizenship in Chile, by Daniela Vicherat Mattar, about feminist ecological citizenship represented in cultural activities on the streets during the 2019 ‘Estallido Social’, a social uprising in Santiago.
Afghanistan – The (un)tenable flaneuse: an inquiry into the politics of women walking in war-entrenched Kabul, by Anuska Paul, about the politics of women walking in the context of state repression.
India – Women’s search for public space and leisure in Agra: cots, courtyards, and riverbank, by Mahima Taneja, about women’s experiences in streets and bazaars, the traditional domain of men, in a low-income riverside settlement in Agra.
Ethiopia – Making money moves: rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by Elizabeth Dessie, about the daily lives of rural migrant women and returnee streetworkers.
Pakistan – Reclaiming public spaces: experiences of social exclusion of female sanitary workers in public spaces in Lahore, Pakistan, by Khadija Aftab, Fouzia Sadaf, Abida Sharif & Ayesha Aqeel Ahmed.
South and South-East Asia – Pride and the politics of activism in South and South-East Asia: a transdisciplinary conversation, by Wikke Jansen, Hamzah Faraz Karamat, Kai Mata & Chandrika Yogarajah, about “the notion of pride in the context of queer activism and community organising” in Indonesia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
