Janet Townsend

Biographic Data

ID3661711
NAMEJanet Townsend
GIVEN NAMESJanet
FAMILY NAMETownsend
SIGNATURETOWNSEND J
AFFILIATIONSNewcastle University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS154
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX8

  • Children and Young People As Knowledge Producers

    Gina Porter, Janet Townsend et al.EDITORBOOKChildren and Young People As…2020

  • Women and Citizenship Post-Trafficking

    Open AccessD Richardson, Nina Laurie et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review2016Cited by: 6References: 38

    This article analyses the relationship between gender, sexuality and citizenship embedded in models of citizenship in the Global South, specifically in South Asia, and the meanings associated with having - or not having - citizenship. It does this through an examination of women's access to citizenship in Nepal in the context of the construction of the emergent nation state in the 'new' Nepal 'post-conflict'. Our analysis explores gendered and se…

  • Post-trafficking bordering practices

    Open AccessNina Laurie, D Richardson et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2015Cited by: 15References: 24

    This paper highlights the significance of post-trafficking scenarios for understanding bordering practices in political geography. In so doing, it addresses two significant research gaps: the lack of attention to trafficking in geography and the failure of wider interdisciplinary debates to engage with post-trafficking specifically. While extensive research in political geography has addressed the related experiences of refugees, asylum seekers a…

  • Co-producing a post-trafficking agenda

    Open AccessNina Laurie, D Richardson et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2015Cited by: 8References: 8

    This article discusses how a new agenda on post-trafficking is gaining momentum through academic and activist anti-trafficking collaborations focused on co-producing knowledge with women who have returned from trafficking situations. Co-production of this nature is important as the issues raised by post-trafficking scenarios are largely ignored in anti-trafficking strategies, and the stigmatisation and poverty which women in these circumstances e…

  • Author–critic forum

    Nick Megoran, Colette Harris et al.ARTICLECentral Asian Survey2012

    The ‘Author–Critic Forum’ format consists of a standard review of a new book plus a number of shorter appraisals of it, and finally a response by the author to all these contributions. The choice o

  • Children and young people as producers of knowledge

    G Porter, Janet Townsend et al.ARTICLEChildren s Geographies2012Cited by: 9References: 2

    The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child represented a particularly important way-mark for child-centred studies because it affirmed children's rights to participation: the right to give a

  • Sustainable Development and Gender Hierarchies

    Open AccessÁngel Galmiche Tejeda, Janet Townsend et al.ARTICLEGender Technology and Development2006References: 4

    The establishment of subsistence aquaculture has been heralded as a means of achieving environmental and social sustainability as it is seen to augment farm livelihoods by supplementing household subsistence needs and providing a cash income at critical points in the agricultural calendar at the same time. Yet gender processes within this sector are little understood and have received little attention within literature on natural resource managem…

  • Trust, accountability, and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations

    Emma Mawdsley, Janet Townsend et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2005Cited by: 23References: 1

    Janet Townsend is a Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Durham. Her interest in NGOs came from women pioneer settlers in Latin American rainforests, when Mexican respondents proved to see NGOs as the best prospective outside help. Emma Mawdsley lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. In addition to her NGO research, she is working on the environmental beliefs and behaviours of India's middle classes. Gina Porter is worki…

  • Creating Spaces of Resistance

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEAntipode2004Cited by: 45References: 3

    Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neoliberal project. For others, they elaborate and pursue alternative dreams. In this paper, we argue that, although the majority of NGOs have been co-opted to serve hegemonic development agendas, they nevertheless present a fluid, contradictory web of relations, within which a significant minority seeks to make spaces of resistance, and where even…

  • The role of the transnational community of non‐government organizations

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2002

    Non‐government organizations working in development form a transnational community which has a new role in imperialism today. We explored the knowledge economy of this community with NGDOs in Ghana, India, Mexico and Europe and found it to be largely donor‐controlled and generally top‐down, often against the will of committed individual actors. Governability is arguably a greater priority to donors than the most effective poverty reduction. The n…

  • Hidden Workers, Hidden Women, Hidden Geographies

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLEAntipode2002

  • GIS for development

    Open AccessChristine Dunn, Christine E Dunn et al.ARTICLEArea1997Cited by: 9References: 15

    Is it possible to make appropriate use of GIS for ‘development’ (here defined as change desirable for the poor) in countries where human and financial resources may be limited? We argue that it is, and should be taught, but that there are no quick fixes

  • Feminists in the rainforest in Mexico

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEGeoforum1993Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Towards a Regional Geography of Gender

    Janet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLEGeographical Journal1991Cited by: 13

  • Where the Dove Calls

    Janet Townsend, Thomas E SheridanARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1990

  • Gender and Work in the Third World

    Janet Townsend, John D Humphrey et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1989Cited by: 5

    As countries in the Third World become more industrialized, what type of sexual division of labour will be established? Taking Brazil as an example, John Humphrey examines the issues around this question

  • Latin America

    Janet Townsend, A S MorrisARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1982Cited by: 7

  • The Struggle for Land

    Janet Townsend, J FowerakerARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1982Cited by: 3

  • Perceived Worlds of the Colonists of Tropical Rainforest, Colombia

    Janet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…1977Cited by: 10

    Field research in Colombia in 1974 employed repertory-grid interview techniques in the investigation of the perceived worlds of colonists in five areas of tropical rainforest. The application of repertory grids in cross-cultural situations appears to be new and the methodology is briefly described. The results illuminate many aspects of the colonists' decisionmaking environment through the varying relations of standard constructs and elements, po…