Meredeth Turshen

Biographic Data

ID141304
NAMEMeredeth Turshen
GIVEN NAMESMeredeth
FAMILY NAMETurshen
SIGNATURETURSHEN M
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
ORCID0000-0001-7116-3606
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS109
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX5

  • The Covid-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities

    Open AccessMeredeth Turshen, Annie Thébaud-MonyARTICLEMonthly Review2020

    As stated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, health is a fundamental human right. However, we find ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with a shortage of both human and material health resources, most of which must be sourced from the private sector. Some of the wealthiest countries—France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States—have proved unable to respond rapidly. The evolution of public h…

  • A global partnership for development and other unfulfilled promises of the millennium project

    Meredeth TurshenARTICLEThird World Quarterly2014Cited by: 4References: 7

    This article revisits the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (mdgs) set in 2000, timely now because policy makers are currently making plans for the period after 2015. After laying out a critical analysis of the mdgs, the article focuses on Millennium Goal 8, the global partnership for development. The argument made is that the absence of any goal to reset the asymmetrical power relations between the North and the South reveals the limit…

  • Your pocket is what cures you: The politics of health in Senegal

    Meredeth TurshenARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2013

    “If you don't have money, you can't get medical care. No money, no care”; Pikine resident Salimata So (79).In ten chapters, anthropologist Ellen Foley takes on the neoliberal model of health servic

  • Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone

    Meredeth TurshenARTICLEAfrican Affairs2011

    This well-written account of the experiences of abducted women in the north of Sierra Leone during armed conflict is based on Chris Coulter's 2006 doctoral dissertation, Being a Bush Wife: Young women's lives through war and peace in northern Sierra Leone. It hits all the right notes on key – contextualization of women's war experiences in the history of Sierra Leone and the specific background to the conflict that began in 1991 and ended in 2002…

  • African Women

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenBOOKAfrican Women2010

    This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues

  • African Women: A Political Economy

    Meredeth TurshenBOOKAfrican Women2010

  • The Political Economy of Women in Africa

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenCHAPTERAfrican Women2010

    An academic discipline first inspired by women activists, women’s studies has grown dramatically around the world since the 1970s. This volume gathers together articles that present feminist thought in African studies and commentaries that reflect the state of women’s thinking on economics and politics today. African women’s economic activities range from farming and manufacturing to every sort of self-employment. Politics encompasses formal part…

  • The Political Economy of Violence: Women during Armed Conflict in Uganda

    Meredeth TurshenCHAPTERCultures of Fear2009

  • The Global Health Landscape

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEDevelopment and Change2009References: 2

  • Child poverty in Africa

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2008References: 1

    Dependence on the mineral sector is central to economic reforms in Africa.These reforms have the objective of increasing economic growth and reducing poverty.Mineral endowed countries such as Ghana have been successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to the mineral sector through liberalisation of mining codes, which provide generous concessions to foreign multinational mining companies.UNCTAD (2005) indicates that a large proportio…

  • What has Happened in Africa since Cairo

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEIndian Journal of Gender Studies2007Cited by: 2References: 2

    This article presents data on what has happened in Africa since Cairo. On too many fronts, especially in the areas of ICPD promises, the countries and people of sub-Saharan Africa have moved backwards, or have stagnated and made no progress. The poorest African countries grew poorer, while the richest nations of the North got (much) richer; life expectancy fell; maternal mortality rates rose; skilled personnel attended fewer births; the rates of …

  • Briefings

    Open AccessJulie Flint, R Connell et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2006References: 1

    Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur, one of Sudan's most marginalised areas, since rebellion erupted early in 2003.More than three million are in need of food aid, many of them beyond the reach of aid because of insecurity and government obstacles to humanitarian relief.With a donor shortfall of $389 million, World Food Programme rations cut by half and murderous, government-supported Janjaweed militias still uncontrolled, the con…

  • Militarism and Islamism in Algeria

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEJournal of Asian and African…2004Cited by: 3References: 6

    This article focuses on the combined consequences for women of militarization and pan-Islamism-a particular manifestation of Islam that has spread using some of the mechanisms of globalization, especially global trade and global communications. The empirical data are drawn from the civil conflict of the 1990s in Algeria, where an Islamist movement led by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and several armed Islamist groups (notably the GIA, the Arm…

  • Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945

    Meredeth Turshen, Myron EchenbergARTICLEJournal of Public Health Policy2003

  • Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences

    Meredeth Turshen, Wolfgang Benedek et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2003

  • Algeria: Contested & embattled

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2002Cited by: 1

    A decade of violence and news of bloody massacres have replaced the positive images of Algeria ‐ the FLN's successful fight to liberate the country from French colonialism, which was captured for many of us in Pontecorvo's film, The Battle of Algiers ; the pioneering writings of Frantz Fanon based on his Algerian experience; and Algeria's leadership (with Cuba) of the Group of 77, which launched the New International Economic Order in 1974 and ca…

  • Algerian oil & gas

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2002

    (2002). Algerian oil & gas. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 91, pp. 184-186

  • Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims

    Meredeth TurshenARTICLESocial research2002Cited by: 7

    We had visited the site and noted several possible targets. We had been told to place two bombs, but we were three, and at the last moment, since it was possible, we decided to plant three bombs. Samia and I carried three bombs from the Casbah to Bab el Oued, where they were primed. . . . Each of us placed a bomb, and at the appointed time there were two explosions; one of the bombs was defective and didn't go off. Djamila B., Zohra D., and Samia…

  • Stories of African Women in War

    Asha Moodley, Meredeth Turshen et al.ARTICLEAgenda2000

  • Commentary

    Open AccessMeredeth Turshen, Ousseina Alidou et al.ARTICLERace & Class2000

  • Privatizing health services in Africa

    Meredeth TurshenBOOKPrivatizing health services in…1999Cited by: 35

  • West African workshop on women in the aftermath of civil war: 11 To 13 December 1998, Cesag, Dakar, Senegal

    Open AccessMeredeth TurshenARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1999Cited by: 1

  • Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Meredeth Turshen, Philip Setel et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1999

    Introduction: Comparative Histories of STDs and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Philip Setel Sex, Disease, and Culture Change in Ghana by Deborah Pellow Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire by Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze A History of STDs and AIDS in Senegal--Difficulties in Accounting for 'Social Logics' in Health Policy by Charles Becker and Rene Collignon Medicine and Morality: A Review of Responses to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in …

  • What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa

    Jeanne Marie Penvenne, Meredeth Turshen et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1999

  • Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of Aids

    Meredeth Turshen, Sandra WallmanARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1998