Gender and Politics Reimagined : Centring Oceanic and Asian Lenses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jakimow, Tanya.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, 2025.

Summary:

This timely collection reflects a coming together of academics, gender and development practitioners and activists to reflect on the gendering of politics.

Contents:

Intro

List of illustrations

Figure 2.1: Country name inclusion in the title (top) and country description in the text (bottom)

Figure 4.1: Constructive gaps used by gender and ethnically diverse young people to wield political power

Figure 13.1: Conceptualising pathways of change and webs of interdependence

Plate 0.1: Elise Howard (right) with Mema Motusaga, Savaii, Samoa, 29 October 2022

Plate 3.1a: The original caption for this image by John Watt Beattie read, 'Cannibal men at [Fote], Malaita, Solomon Islands, 1906'

Plate 3.1b: Beattie's photo as edited and reproduced in A Solomon Islands Chronicle, with the man holding the baby and the boy cropped out

Plate 3.2: Northcote Deck, 'Lau men and a toddler (Malaita)' (c. 1908?), lantern slide

Plate 3.3: The original caption for this image by John Watt Beattie read, 'Local people gathered near the women's landing place of Ferasiboa, Malaita, Solomon Islands, 1906'

Plate 4.1: Elise Stephenson speaking at the Young Entrepreneurs and Leaders Speaker Series engagement at UN headquarters, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019

Plate 4.2: Workshopping approaches to gender equality for Gender Month, Vietnam, 2019

Plate 6.1: Anne Nealibo Dickson-Waiko (right) doing research with Baloni Douglas and other women into the Battle of Milne Bay, at Bou village in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, 12 April 2017

Plate 6.2: Portrait of J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, 2025

Plate 6.3: Teresia K. Teaiwa in 2014 with a Marshall Islands stick chart for navigation, a gift from her mother that she used to reflect on both ancient heritage and Pacific studies pedagogy

Plate 9.1: The Samoan delegation to the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Reflection Summit in Cancun, Mexico, 2022

Plate 9.2: The Samoan community coming together to support gender equity at all levels.

Plate 10.1: A woman fishing in the estuary, Malaka, Indonesia, 4 October 2021

Plate 10.2: An uma or traditional house in Malaka, Indonesia, 14 August 2021

Table 2.1: Top 10 countries by author's institutional affiliation

Table 2.2: Top 10 countries by study focus

Table 2.3: Geographic inequality in theoretical dependence of gender, politics and media studies (per cent)

Table 2.4: Academic salience of the gender, politics and media literature

Table 2.5: Gender inequality comparison between the West and the rest

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

1. Interrogating What Is Known About Gender and Politics: Vantage points from Oceania and Asia

Part I: Exposing Limits, Exploring Alternatives

Introduction

2. Geographic Publication Inequality and Bias: A critical review of the gender, politics and media literature

3. Kalsa blong hu nao woman no garem raet? Rethinking the culture and gender narrative in Solomon Islands

4. Political Proxies: Gender-diverse young people's alternative paths to politics in South-East Asia and Australia

Part II: Decolonising Knowledge and Practice: A question

5. Whose Knowledge Matters: Subjugation and the hegemony of whiteness in international development

6. Decolonial Disruptions: Feminist scholarship and practice across Oceania

7. Decolonising the Stories of Women Political Leaders in Asia and the Pacific

Part III: Reframing the Narrative, Reclaiming the Space

8. Erasing the Boundaries: Situating the 'Asian' among the world's women leaders

9. Weaving a Pacific Narrative into Understanding Women's Underrepresentation in Politics in Samoa

10. Cooking as Activism: Affective journeys and the politics of being a housewife in Malaka, West Timor.

11. Territories and Frontiers: Exclusionary inclusion of women in grassroots governance in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Part IV: Disruption, Solidarity and Resistance

12. Towards a Self-Limiting Movement? Feminist advocacy in times of political uncertainty

13. Webs of Interdependence and Solidarity: Growing marginalised women's influence and leadership in rural Indonesian villages

14. Resistance Through Care: Japan's Technical Intern Training Program

Collective Afterword: Listening, re-storying, reanimating research and action.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-76046-710-3

OCLC:

1542890245