Full Description
Using empirical data from communities and stakeholders across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean this open access book provides crucial insights into the profound and multidimensional implications of China's engagement in the Global South for women.
The book synthesizes the findings of a two-year, collaborative research project conducted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). It reveals startling insights into the gendered dimensions of China's soft power; it's peace and security agenda; it's impact on civil society activism; and its investment in mining, infrastructure, and agriculture.
Authors put women's agency at the centre—rejecting approaches that treat women merely as passive victims, or at best, as members of a vulnerable group—and they challenge the gender-blindness in the China's current South-South cooperation framework and practice. What emerges is a call for mutual accountability for both China and the recipient countries with which it engages. China must foreground gender equality in its development initiatives, which it can do without violating its non-interference and non-conditionality policies, and recipient countries must become active agents for promoting their own gender equality agenda in development cooperation projects. As becomes clear across contexts, this is the only path to a meaningful transnational feminist dialogue aimed at creating more equitable, mutually constructive South-South relations.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).
Contents
Preface
Kamala Chandrakirana (DAWN co-coordinator)
Acknowledgement
Author biographies
Introduction: Co-production of Southern Feminist Knowledge on Global China
Cai Yiping (DAWN/University of California, Irvine, USA)
1. The Impact of Chinese Development Cooperation on Women in Trinidad and Tobago
Annita Montoute, Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez, and Deborah McFee (University of the West Indies)
2. Gender Impacts of China's Engagement in Pacific Island Countries: Case Studies of Belt and Road Initiative Infrastructure Projects in Tonga and Vanuatu
Vasemaca Lutu (Independent researcher, Fiji)
3. Chinese Mining Projects in Ecuador and Perú: Gender Impacts and Women's Agency
Diana Castro Salgado (Latinoamérica Sustentable, Ecuador)
4. Organised Abandonment and Gendered Impacts of Extractivism in Bikita, Zimbabwe
Hibist Wendemu Kassa (University of Leicester, UK) and Zinzile Fengu (Independent researcher, Zimbabwe)
5. Empowering Women in Nigerian Agriculture: Assessing the Effects of China-Nigeria Agricultural Cooperation on Female Smallholders' Livelihood, Capacity-Building, and Shifting Social Norms
Itunu Grace Ishola (Peking University, China)
6. Implications of Security Agreements on Women, Peace, and Security in The Solomon Islands: A Comparative Case Study on China-Solomon Islands Bilateral Security Cooperation and the Australia-Solomon Islands Bilateral Security Treaty
Patricia Sango Pollard (Independent researcher, Solomon Islands)
7. The Gender Question in China's Soft Power Engagement in the Global South
Govind Kelkar (GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, India) and Ritu Agarwal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
8. When Civil Society Contests Global China: Challenges and Opportunities for Gender-related Civil Society Transnational Action on China-backed Infrastructure Projects in the Global South
Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford, UK)
Conclusion and Looking Forward
Cai Yiping (DAWN/University of California, Irvine, USA)
Bibliography
Index
