Sarah Bradshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Bradshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradshaw |
| SIGNATURE | BRADSHAW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2193-0130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Critical mapping of the energy-gender nexus
Existing energy research is frequently criticised for its lack of gender sensitivity and for reproducing masculine biases. While literature exploring energy and gender is growing, there remains a significant gap in understanding how these fields precisely interact. Exploring this intersection is important to advance the agenda for gender equality in energy research, policy and practice. This article presents a systematic review of papers publishe…
Gender gaps as unknowns or un-knowings? Engendering development and disasters in an extractivist landscape
Despite the dominance of ‘smart economics’, what we know about women’s poverty remains limited, and what we know about other areas of women’s lives and deaths, even more so. More and better-gendered data is often presented as a way to improve policy response. This article questions whether the real problem is that policymakers do not know, or whether they do not want to know, highlighting a distinction between the unknown and un-knowing. It takes…
Extractivism and the engendering of disasters
Purpose This paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which combined create disasters. Disaster Risk Creation is then built into the current global socio-economic system, as an integral component not accidental by-product. Design/methodology/approach As part of the movement to liberate disasters as discipline, practice and fie…
Metagenomic and genomic characterization of heavy metal tolerance and resistance genes in the rhizosphere microbiome of Avicennia germinans in a semi-arid mangrove forest in the tropics
Mangroves are often exposed to heavy metals that accumulate in the food chain, generate toxicity to mangrove plants and affect microbial diversity. This study determined the abundance of genes associated with resistance and tolerance to heavy metals in the rhizosphere microbiome of Avicennia germinans from a semi-arid mangrove of La Guajira-Colombia by metagenomics and genomics approach. Twenty-eight genes associated with tolerance and 49 genes r…
The discord between discourse and data in engendering resilience building for sustainability
It’s gender Jim, but not as we know it … A critical review of constructions of gendered knowledge of the Global South
This article explores how research helps construct a certain type of ‘gender’ knowledge that arises from, informs and reinforces ‘instrumentalist’ gendered policy perspectives on development of the Global South. It uses a case study of research funded under the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation which awarded 122 grants amounting to £66.2 million (around US$88 million) between 2005 and 2015. From a systematic review of the awards a typo…
Women’s role in economic development
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty
Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of women to men living in income-poor households has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programs, most notably conditional cash transfers (CCTs), which target resources to women. This paper shows that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of mea…
Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy
This article considers how patriarchal power relations between men and women are produced and reproduced within extractive industries, and examines the idea that the ‘supernormal profits’ to be made there encourage the development of ‘supernormal patriarchy’. By looking at the sites where extraction takes place and relationships between men and women within these sites, we show the extreme and exaggerated gender roles and relations that are found…
Gender and poverty
Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the ‘feminisation of poverty’, this paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on initiatives by UN Women, including the Progress of the World’s Women 2015–16. Our analysis of the data compiled by UN Women raises questions about what might account for the over-representation of women among the poor in official accounts of poverty, and how this is p…
Gendered Rights in the Post-2015 Development and Disasters Agendas
This article explores how, 20 years after the Beijing conference, women's rights are being discussed within processes to develop a post-2015 sustainable development agenda and the parallel international disaster risk reduction framework. It is based on analysis of documents produced to date from the various processes, and also personal experience of seeking to influence both the post-2015 development and disaster agendas. It highlights how attemp…
Engendering development and disasters
Over the last two decades the different impacts of disasters on women and men have been acknowledged, leading to calls to integrate gender into disaster risk reduction and response. This paper explores how evolving understandings of ways of integrating gender into development have influenced this process, critically analysing contemporary initiatives to 'engender' development that see the inclusion of women for both efficiency and equality gains.…
Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually and collectively as gendered events. Through consideration of processes to engender development, it problematizes women's inclusion in disaster response and reconstruction. The study highlights that while women are …
Women’s decision-making in rural and urban households in Nicaragua
This paper contributes to the continuing debate on factors that influence women’s decision-making within households. Specifically, it considers the influence of income generation and gender ideology on women’s decision-making in urban and rural households in Nicaragua. It adds to the debate by extending the household decisions that are considered to include not only monetary decisions but also “life option” decisions, including those around women…
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch
The Women of Katrina
Gender and Development 20 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.731757 David, Emmanuel and Elaine Enarson (eds.) The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Dis
An Unholy Trinity
From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment
The article explores the implications for gender roles and relations in Nicaragua of implementing a Conditional Cash Transfer programme aimed at improving the situation of the extreme poor. Nicaragua's programme, the Social Protection Network/Red de Protección Social (RPS), is modelled on the Progresa/Oportunidades programme of Mexico and shares many features in common. Evaluations of Progresa have suggested positive outcomes for women. However, …
Women Beneficiaries or Women Bearing the Cost? A Gendered Analysis of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua
Conditional Cash Transfer programmes aim to alleviate short-term poverty through cash transfers to poor households, and to reduce longer-term poverty through making these transfers conditional on household investment in the health and education of children. These programmes have become increasingly popular with institutions such as the World Bank. However, the need for conditionalities has been questioned on a number of levels, including its nece…
Is the rights focus the right focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda
This article explores the limitations of a rights focus for furthering women's claims for social change and, more specifically, as a focus for mobilising women around these claims. It analyses the experiences of a feminist ngo that has used a rights approach and draws on interviews undertaken with key representatives of women's groups in Nicaragua. Many groups use the rights discourse and see utility in its unifying language, around which collect…
Civil society responses to poverty reduction strategies in Nicaragua
This paper considers the recent experience of civil society organizations in Nicaragua within the Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) process. The focus of the paper is not the poverty reduction strategy itself but rather civil society responses to this initiative in Nicaragua. It highlights the problems beginning to emerge within this process in relation to the World Bank-IMF, the national government and organized civil society. Fundament…
Reconstructing roles and relations
Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government's reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition of NGOs, undertook a large-scale so…
Women's access to employment and the formation of female-headed households in rural and urban honduras
Women's Access to Employment and the Formation of Female-headed Households in Rural and Urban Honduras1
Inside Honduras
Engendering development and disasters
Over the last two decades the different impacts of disasters on women and men have been acknowledged, leading to calls to integrate gender into disaster risk reduction and response. This paper explores how evolving understandings of ways of integrating gender into development have influenced this process, critically analysing contemporary initiatives to 'engender' development that see the inclusion of women for both efficiency and equality gains.…
From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment
The article explores the implications for gender roles and relations in Nicaragua of implementing a Conditional Cash Transfer programme aimed at improving the situation of the extreme poor. Nicaragua's programme, the Social Protection Network/Red de Protección Social (RPS), is modelled on the Progresa/Oportunidades programme of Mexico and shares many features in common. Evaluations of Progresa have suggested positive outcomes for women. However, …
Gender and poverty
Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the ‘feminisation of poverty’, this paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on initiatives by UN Women, including the Progress of the World’s Women 2015–16. Our analysis of the data compiled by UN Women raises questions about what might account for the over-representation of women among the poor in official accounts of poverty, and how this is p…
Women Beneficiaries or Women Bearing the Cost? A Gendered Analysis of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua
Conditional Cash Transfer programmes aim to alleviate short-term poverty through cash transfers to poor households, and to reduce longer-term poverty through making these transfers conditional on household investment in the health and education of children. These programmes have become increasingly popular with institutions such as the World Bank. However, the need for conditionalities has been questioned on a number of levels, including its nece…
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty
Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of women to men living in income-poor households has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programs, most notably conditional cash transfers (CCTs), which target resources to women. This paper shows that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of mea…
Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy
This article considers how patriarchal power relations between men and women are produced and reproduced within extractive industries, and examines the idea that the ‘supernormal profits’ to be made there encourage the development of ‘supernormal patriarchy’. By looking at the sites where extraction takes place and relationships between men and women within these sites, we show the extreme and exaggerated gender roles and relations that are found…
Is the rights focus the right focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda
This article explores the limitations of a rights focus for furthering women's claims for social change and, more specifically, as a focus for mobilising women around these claims. It analyses the experiences of a feminist ngo that has used a rights approach and draws on interviews undertaken with key representatives of women's groups in Nicaragua. Many groups use the rights discourse and see utility in its unifying language, around which collect…
Reconstructing roles and relations
Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government's reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition of NGOs, undertook a large-scale so…
Women’s decision-making in rural and urban households in Nicaragua
This paper contributes to the continuing debate on factors that influence women’s decision-making within households. Specifically, it considers the influence of income generation and gender ideology on women’s decision-making in urban and rural households in Nicaragua. It adds to the debate by extending the household decisions that are considered to include not only monetary decisions but also “life option” decisions, including those around women…
Women's access to employment and the formation of female-headed households in rural and urban honduras
Civil society responses to poverty reduction strategies in Nicaragua
This paper considers the recent experience of civil society organizations in Nicaragua within the Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) process. The focus of the paper is not the poverty reduction strategy itself but rather civil society responses to this initiative in Nicaragua. It highlights the problems beginning to emerge within this process in relation to the World Bank-IMF, the national government and organized civil society. Fundament…
The Women of Katrina
Gender and Development 20 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.731757 David, Emmanuel and Elaine Enarson (eds.) The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Dis
An Unholy Trinity
Gendered Rights in the Post-2015 Development and Disasters Agendas
This article explores how, 20 years after the Beijing conference, women's rights are being discussed within processes to develop a post-2015 sustainable development agenda and the parallel international disaster risk reduction framework. It is based on analysis of documents produced to date from the various processes, and also personal experience of seeking to influence both the post-2015 development and disaster agendas. It highlights how attemp…
Women's Access to Employment and the Formation of Female-headed Households in Rural and Urban Honduras1
Inside Honduras
Women's access to employment and the formation of female-headed households in rural and urban honduras
Women's Access to Employment and the Formation of Female-headed Households in Rural and Urban Honduras1
Reconstructing roles and relations
Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government's reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition of NGOs, undertook a large-scale so…
Civil society responses to poverty reduction strategies in Nicaragua
This paper considers the recent experience of civil society organizations in Nicaragua within the Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) process. The focus of the paper is not the poverty reduction strategy itself but rather civil society responses to this initiative in Nicaragua. It highlights the problems beginning to emerge within this process in relation to the World Bank-IMF, the national government and organized civil society. Fundament…
Is the rights focus the right focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda
This article explores the limitations of a rights focus for furthering women's claims for social change and, more specifically, as a focus for mobilising women around these claims. It analyses the experiences of a feminist ngo that has used a rights approach and draws on interviews undertaken with key representatives of women's groups in Nicaragua. Many groups use the rights discourse and see utility in its unifying language, around which collect…
From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment
The article explores the implications for gender roles and relations in Nicaragua of implementing a Conditional Cash Transfer programme aimed at improving the situation of the extreme poor. Nicaragua's programme, the Social Protection Network/Red de Protección Social (RPS), is modelled on the Progresa/Oportunidades programme of Mexico and shares many features in common. Evaluations of Progresa have suggested positive outcomes for women. However, …
Women Beneficiaries or Women Bearing the Cost? A Gendered Analysis of the Red de Protección Social in Nicaragua
Conditional Cash Transfer programmes aim to alleviate short-term poverty through cash transfers to poor households, and to reduce longer-term poverty through making these transfers conditional on household investment in the health and education of children. These programmes have become increasingly popular with institutions such as the World Bank. However, the need for conditionalities has been questioned on a number of levels, including its nece…
An Unholy Trinity
The Women of Katrina
Gender and Development 20 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.731757 David, Emmanuel and Elaine Enarson (eds.) The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Dis
Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually and collectively as gendered events. Through consideration of processes to engender development, it problematizes women's inclusion in disaster response and reconstruction. The study highlights that while women are …
Women’s decision-making in rural and urban households in Nicaragua
This paper contributes to the continuing debate on factors that influence women’s decision-making within households. Specifically, it considers the influence of income generation and gender ideology on women’s decision-making in urban and rural households in Nicaragua. It adds to the debate by extending the household decisions that are considered to include not only monetary decisions but also “life option” decisions, including those around women…
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch
Gendered Rights in the Post-2015 Development and Disasters Agendas
This article explores how, 20 years after the Beijing conference, women's rights are being discussed within processes to develop a post-2015 sustainable development agenda and the parallel international disaster risk reduction framework. It is based on analysis of documents produced to date from the various processes, and also personal experience of seeking to influence both the post-2015 development and disaster agendas. It highlights how attemp…
Engendering development and disasters
Over the last two decades the different impacts of disasters on women and men have been acknowledged, leading to calls to integrate gender into disaster risk reduction and response. This paper explores how evolving understandings of ways of integrating gender into development have influenced this process, critically analysing contemporary initiatives to 'engender' development that see the inclusion of women for both efficiency and equality gains.…
Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy
This article considers how patriarchal power relations between men and women are produced and reproduced within extractive industries, and examines the idea that the ‘supernormal profits’ to be made there encourage the development of ‘supernormal patriarchy’. By looking at the sites where extraction takes place and relationships between men and women within these sites, we show the extreme and exaggerated gender roles and relations that are found…
Gender and poverty
Drawing on historical debates on gender, poverty, and the ‘feminisation of poverty’, this paper reflects on current evidence, methods and analysis of gendered poverty. It focuses on initiatives by UN Women, including the Progress of the World’s Women 2015–16. Our analysis of the data compiled by UN Women raises questions about what might account for the over-representation of women among the poor in official accounts of poverty, and how this is p…
Women’s role in economic development
Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty
Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. A rise in the numbers of women to men living in income-poor households has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programs, most notably conditional cash transfers (CCTs), which target resources to women. This paper shows that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of mea…
The discord between discourse and data in engendering resilience building for sustainability
It’s gender Jim, but not as we know it … A critical review of constructions of gendered knowledge of the Global South
This article explores how research helps construct a certain type of ‘gender’ knowledge that arises from, informs and reinforces ‘instrumentalist’ gendered policy perspectives on development of the Global South. It uses a case study of research funded under the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation which awarded 122 grants amounting to £66.2 million (around US$88 million) between 2005 and 2015. From a systematic review of the awards a typo…
Metagenomic and genomic characterization of heavy metal tolerance and resistance genes in the rhizosphere microbiome of Avicennia germinans in a semi-arid mangrove forest in the tropics
Mangroves are often exposed to heavy metals that accumulate in the food chain, generate toxicity to mangrove plants and affect microbial diversity. This study determined the abundance of genes associated with resistance and tolerance to heavy metals in the rhizosphere microbiome of Avicennia germinans from a semi-arid mangrove of La Guajira-Colombia by metagenomics and genomics approach. Twenty-eight genes associated with tolerance and 49 genes r…
Extractivism and the engendering of disasters
Purpose This paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which combined create disasters. Disaster Risk Creation is then built into the current global socio-economic system, as an integral component not accidental by-product. Design/methodology/approach As part of the movement to liberate disasters as discipline, practice and fie…
Critical mapping of the energy-gender nexus
Existing energy research is frequently criticised for its lack of gender sensitivity and for reproducing masculine biases. While literature exploring energy and gender is growing, there remains a significant gap in understanding how these fields precisely interact. Exploring this intersection is important to advance the agenda for gender equality in energy research, policy and practice. This article presents a systematic review of papers publishe…
Gender gaps as unknowns or un-knowings? Engendering development and disasters in an extractivist landscape
Despite the dominance of ‘smart economics’, what we know about women’s poverty remains limited, and what we know about other areas of women’s lives and deaths, even more so. More and better-gendered data is often presented as a way to improve policy response. This article questions whether the real problem is that policymakers do not know, or whether they do not want to know, highlighting a distinction between the unknown and un-knowing. It takes…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works)