Introduction: Women’s Empowerment: Contentions and Contestations
Critically examines dominant understandings of women’s empowerment and calls for greater attention to the changes in women’s everyday lives that produce meaningful and lasting improvements.
Discourses on Women’s Empowerment in Ghana
Examines competing discourses of women’s empowerment in Ghana and considers how government, donors and civil society understand and promote improvements in women’s lives.
‘Communities of practice’: Prospects for theory and action in participatory development
Challenges conventional ideas of “community” in participatory development and proposes communities of practice, built around shared meanings, as a more flexible approach to collective action.
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives through the Lens of ‘Participation’
Develops a framework for understanding how ordinary people interpret and engage with public policy through their personal histories, changing circumstances and everyday lives.