19 research outputs found
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
No full textRhiannon Pyburn, Illiana Monterroso, Hazel Malapit, Katrina Kosec, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jennifer Twyman, and Dina Najjar POLICY SEMINAR Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and IFPRI OCT 30, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ED
Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future
No full textOver the past decade, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment has grown rapidly, creating a unique opportunity to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development. This book, edited by researchers from the CGIAR Gender Platform, reviews and reflects on the growing body of evidence from gender research. It marks a shift a way from a traditional focus on how gender analysis can contribute to improved productivity, flipping the question to ask, How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Chapters synthesize the wide range of CGIAR and other research in this area, covering breeding research and seed systems, value chain participation, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, natural resources, climate adaptation and mitigation, the “feminization” of agriculture, women’s role in agricultural research, and emerging gender transformative approaches.
This page also includes the synopsis: Pyburn, Rhiannon, ed.; and van Eerdewijk, Anouka, ed. 2021. Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future: Synopsis. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/978089629420
Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future: Synopsis
No full textOver the past decade, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment has grown rapidly, creating a unique opportunity to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development. This book, edited by researchers from the CGIAR Gender Platform, reviews and reflects on the growing body of evidence from gender research. It marks a shift a way from a traditional focus on how gender analysis can contribute to improved productivity, flipping the question to ask, How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Chapters synthesize the wide range of CGIAR and other research in this area, covering breeding research and seed systems, value chain participation, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, natural resources, climate adaptation and mitigation, the “feminization” of agriculture, women’s role in agricultural research, and emerging gender transformative approaches.Non-PRIFPRI1; CRP2PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future
No full textOver the past decade, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment has grown rapidly, creating a unique opportunity to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development. This book, edited by researchers from the CGIAR Gender Platform, reviews and reflects on the growing body of evidence from gender research. It marks a shift a way from a traditional focus on how gender analysis can contribute to improved productivity, flipping the question to ask, How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Chapters synthesize the wide range of CGIAR and other research in this area, covering breeding research and seed systems, value chain participation, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, natural resources, climate adaptation and mitigation, the “feminization” of agriculture, women’s role in agricultural research, and emerging gender transformative approaches.PRIFPRI1; CRP2PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Visioni corporali: il corpo come oggetto epistemologico e massmediatico in alcuni poeti contemporanei Italiani
No full textQuesta tesi di dottorato prende in esame l’ambivalenza delle relazioni tra sguardo e corpo nella poesia contemporanea, constatando l’enorme cambiamento nella loro concezione avvenuto tra la fine del ventesimo secolo e l’inizio del ventunesimo con il crescente predominio delle tecnologie visive. Gli autori scelti come esempi hanno abbandonato l’idea che lo sguardo sia l’unico possibile ed infallibile strumento di conoscenza della realtà, scoprendolo imperfetto; non hanno però abbandonato il bisogno di sondare la realtà circostante e hanno di conseguenza riplasmato lo sguardo allineandolo alla limitazione visiva e al campo d’osservazione di conseguenza ristretto. A questo hanno supplito con un’idea di corpo che si presenta al contempo come oggetto d’indagine, spesso autoriflessiva, e come sistema percettivo ed epistemologico integrativo alla vista. Nello studio di tale aspetto, la mia ricerca prende le mosse dal contrasto fra visione e percezione non visiva, stipulando che parte della poesia contemporanea considera l’intero corpo come strumento percettivo che analizza il mondo circostante ed/o interno a sé. In tutto questo, la ricerca poetica si pone come un atto necessariamente solipsistico, che parte dal corpo proprio come oggetto (di studio, ma anche sensoriale) per arrivare a considerarlo come un micro-sistema di parti interdipendenti, un network apparentemente isolato e tendente all’isolamento delle sue parti, che però può collegarsi agli altri network solipstici – gli altri da sé – in quanto portatore di caratteristiche comuni. Come è stato notato dalla critica più recente, quando questo sguardo si estroflette sul mondo, avendo perso la sua capacità di penetrare e focalizzare il reale nella sua interezza, tende a notomizzarlo in lacerti corporali. Un elemento di novità della mia tesi è la considerazione che tale sguardo non sia il sottoprodotto di una perdita ma il frutto di un’acquisizione a livello psicologico e psichico delle tecnologie moderne, che, in modo più o meno cosciente, portano il poeta ad una percezione che sembra plasmata sulle capacità televisive prima, telematiche poi, del mondo in cui agiscono, in linea con molte teorie della stuff theory e del postumanesimo. Tali assimilazioni della tecnologia nella filosofia e nei modi percettivi che informano i testi poetici degli autori presi in esame condizionano certamente la loro visione del reale; ma trasformano anche la loro visione del corpo, che diviene, in quanto mezzo percettivo, uno strumento tra gli strumenti ed un oggetto tra gli oggetti. Certo, tale visione non è univoca, e non è uguale per tutti: da Magrelli ad Ottonieri, da Biagini ad Annovi, il modo di intendere queste relazioni è variegato, cambia nel tempo, e porta a visioni spesso divergenti. La presente analisi cronologica delle loro opere traccia una evoluzione che va dal corpo divenuto oggetto alla moltiplicazione performativa dell’io, in una società che ha fatto della cultura visuale l’unica possibile, sebbene la più inaffidabile.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
Engaging the manuscript: new editions and reading the 'whole book' in Chetham's Library MS 8009
Get PDFThis thesis considers the intersection of the manuscript and its literature through an examination of the late fifteenth century manuscript, Chetham’s Library 8009 (Mun. A.6.31) and provides four diplomatic editions. This manuscript contains fourteen texts in Middle English including romance, hagiography, courtesy literature, and a comic text. This thesis argues for the importance of reading medieval literature in its manuscript context. Although there is a growing trend to consider the ‘whole book’ and integrate analysis of the material artefact with interpretation, much work remains to be done.
In Part I, this thesis presents a new paradigm for reading medieval literature, and argues that the manuscript forms a very literal community of texts, and that each text acts as a co-creator of meaning with the others. It then demonstrates four brief contextual readings that may be made within Chetham 8009 across generic boundaries, and that produce a shift in interpretive focus .
Part II provides four diplomatic editions from Chetham 8009: the Life of St Katherine, the Liber Catonis, John Russell’s Book of Carving and Nurture, and the Book of the Duke and Emperor.
This thesis aims to contribute to the study of medieval literature by arguing for a methodological shift in the way the literature is approached and by providing access to four texts either previously unedited or not easily accessible
Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance
Get PDFThis thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west. They do so against a background of conflict, articulated in military confrontation and binary religious and ethnic division. The thesis explores the strategies used to facilitate the cross-cultural relationship across such a gulf of difference and considers what a comparison of medieval and modern romance can reveal about attitudes towards otherness in popular romance.
In Chapter 1, I analyse the construction of the east in each genre, investigating how the homogenisation of the romance east in sheikh romance distances it from the geopolitical reality of those parts of the Middle East seen, by the west, to be "other". Chapter 2 examines the articulation of gender identity and the ways in which these romances subvert and reassert binary gender difference to uphold normative heterosexual relations. Chapter 3 considers how ethnic and religious difference is nuanced, in particular through the use of fabric, breaking down the disjunction between east and west. Chapter 4 investigates the way ethnicity, religion and gender affect hierarchies of power in the abduction motif, enabling undesirable aspects of the east to be recast.
The key finding of this thesis is that both romance genres facilitate the cross-cultural erotic relationship by rewriting apparently binary differences of religion and ethnicity to create sameness. While the east is figured differently in Middle English and modern sheikh romance, the strategies they use to facilitate the cross-cultural erotic relationship are similar. The thesis concludes that the constancy of certain attitudes towards the east in both medieval and modern romance reveals a persistence of conservative values in representations of the east in romance
‘The Churchillian Paradigm and the “Other British Isles”: An Examination of Second World War Remembrance in Man, Orkney, and Jersey’
No full textThis dissertation studies Second World War ‘sites of memory’ in the islands of Jersey, Orkney and the Isle of Man, to determine if each island celebrates the war’s events as Britain does, or if they have charted their own mnemonic course. It builds on the work of Angus Calder, Malcolm Smith, and Mark Connelly, who have explored how popular conception of the Second World War in Britain has been structured around a certain set of commemorative motifs, most of which centre on Winston Churchill and the events of 1940. The British war narrative is now commonly referred to as the ‘Churchillian paradigm’ or ‘finest-hour myth’, and continues to be the driving force in commemoration and memorialization on the British mainland. The three islands in this study are culturally and historically distinct from Britain, and each has strong notions of its own ‘island identity’. Each also possesses a tangential and divisive domestic experience of war, one which is often minimized in the iconography of the Churchillian paradigm. Jersey was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Orkney was home to several thousand Italian POWs who built important infrastructure in the island, and the Isle of Man was home to 14,000 German, Finnish, Japanese, and Italian internees in what one critic has called ‘a bespattered page’ in the nation’s history. By examining ‘sites of memory’— museums, heritage sites, commemorations, celebrations, philately, and use of public space—this dissertation shows that each island simultaneously accepts and rejects elements of the finest-hour myth in their collective memory. Each island displays its unique (though often quite negative) heritage in order to differentiate itself from Britain, while at the same time allowing them, at certain events, to participate in celebration of Britain’s ‘greatest victory’. In this way, islands’ use ‘Britishness’ pragmatically, by basking in traditionally ‘British’ commemorative tropes, while at the same time deepening their own cultural and historical sovereignty
State of the Art on the European Court of Justice and Enacting Citizenship. CEPS Special Report, April 27 2009
Get PDFThis report provides a state of the art of the main interdisciplinary academic discussions, EU acts and European Court of Justice (ECJ) case law surrounding issues related to citizenship, migration and integration. The report was finalised in mid-2008 and has provided the basis upon which the work conducted by the Justice and Home Affairs Section at CEPS in the framework of the ENACT research project funded by DG Research of the European Commission has been developed. In particular, the general objectives of CEPS’ contribution to this project are: first, to assess the impact of Community governance on the enactment of European citizenship and the exclusivity of the nation-state competence over nationality matters; and to examine the ways in which the ECJ and the adoption of the Council Directive 2004/38/EC on the rights of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely have influenced its enactment; second, to analyse the impacts of the enlargement processes, and of accompanying measures such as the transitional arrangements inserted in the Acts of Accession and other restrictions to the fundamental right of freedom of movement, on the status and practices of European citizenship; and third, to assess the tensions inherent to nationality and/or residence-based enactment of citizenship versus European citizenship of TCNs; to address the effects and dilemmas posed by the Council Directive 2003/109/EC of November 2003 on the status of third country nationals who are long-term residents
Why do conflict-generated diasporas pursue sovereignty-based claims through state-based or transnational channels? : Armenian, Albanian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK compared
Get PDFOver the past decade, diaspora mobilization has become of increasing interest to International Relations scholars who study terrorism, civil wars and transnational social movements and networks. Nevertheless, an important area remains under-researched: conditions, causal mechanisms and processes of diaspora mobilization vis-a-vis emerging states, especially in a comparative perspective. This article asks why diaspora entrepreneurs in liberal states pursue the sovereignty goals of their original homelands through the institutional channels of their host-states, through transnational channels or use a dual-pronged approach. Empirically, the article focuses on a comparison between the Albanian, Armenian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK and their links to the emerging states of Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh and Palestine. Two variables act together to explain differences in mobilization patterns: the host-state’s foreign policy stance towards the homeland’s sovereignty goal; and diaspora positionality, the relative power diaspora entrepreneurs perceive as deriving from their social positions in a transnational space between host-state and homeland. If a host-state’s foreign policy stance is closed towards the sovereignty goal, but diaspora entrepreneurs experience their positionality as relatively strong vis-a-vis the host-state, they are more likely to mobilize through host-state channels, as in the Armenian case. If the foreign policy stance is closed towards the sovereignty goal, but the diaspora positionality is weak, activists are more likely to pursue transnational channels, as in the Palestinian case. If the foreign policy stance is open towards the sovereignty goal, but the diaspora positionality is weak, entrepreneurs are likely to engage with both channels, as in the Albanian case
