Jo Rowlands
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Rowlands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowlands |
| SIGNATURE | ROWLANDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxfam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everyday governance in areas of contested power
Introduction
According to World Bank estimates of September 2016, two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, the share of global
Power in Practice
Theorising about power has developed over the past decade in ways that support significantly more nuanced understanding and analysis; the implications of this for development practice are becoming better understood, but have yet to be systematically integrated in programme design and implementation. This article explores the process of strengthening and developing power analysis in the international non‐governmental organisation (NGO), Oxfam. Som…
The Participation Reader
Gender and Development 20 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.663648 Cornwall, Andrea (ed.) The Participation Reader London and New York: Zed Books, ISBN: 978-1842774038, 393 pp. My grea
Introduction to Citizenship
This article does not have an description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website
Fixing Fragile States
Good Governance and Development; Public Administration and Democratic Governance
Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-52566-5, 320 pp. New York, United Nations, 2007, ISBN: 978-92-1-123160-1, 359 pp. Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Pr
Thinking about change for development practice
Development practice is informed by theories of change, but individuals and organisations may not make them explicit. Practitioners may be unaware of the extent to which strategic choices and debates are informed by disparate thinking about how history happens and the role of purposeful intervention for progressive social change. In the past few years, some Oxfam GB staff have been creating processes to debate their theories of change as part of …
Alive and kicking
Globalisation is a process that affects people in the North as well as the South. Its negative effects are felt by people living in poverty in wealthier countries, as well as by those living in poorer ones. Drawing on experience from the work of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme, this article explores some aspects of how changing labour markets affect men and women living in poverty in the UK. People's sex is a key determinant of who is poor. Women an…
A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development
Empowerment has become rather a buzz word for the 1990s. As well as now being used by Western politicians, it was a word frequently heard at the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and at the World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994. Current use of the word remains ill-defined, however, in the development context: its users tend to assume that the appropriate meaning will be understood without being explained. It is used by people repre…
Questioning Empowerment
Empowerment examined
'Empowerment' is a term often used in development work, but rarely defined. This article explores the meaning of empowerment, in the context of its root-concept: power. Different understandings of what constitutes power lead to a variety of interpretations of empowerment, and hence to a range of implications for development policy and practice. 'Empowerment' terminology makes it possible to analyse power, inequality, and oppression; but to be of …
Notes On Native Law and Custom in Kenya
It is natural that customary law, as compared to written laws, varies like language from tribe to tribe and that in larger or scattered tribes there are different practices within a tribe itself. Customary legal systems have not been recorded in full. For example, the Turkana who are purely pastoral have no formal land law because grazing and rights to water are common to all members of the tribe. The Ndorobo had transitional rights of hunting an…
Empowerment examined
'Empowerment' is a term often used in development work, but rarely defined. This article explores the meaning of empowerment, in the context of its root-concept: power. Different understandings of what constitutes power lead to a variety of interpretations of empowerment, and hence to a range of implications for development policy and practice. 'Empowerment' terminology makes it possible to analyse power, inequality, and oppression; but to be of …
Thinking about change for development practice
Development practice is informed by theories of change, but individuals and organisations may not make them explicit. Practitioners may be unaware of the extent to which strategic choices and debates are informed by disparate thinking about how history happens and the role of purposeful intervention for progressive social change. In the past few years, some Oxfam GB staff have been creating processes to debate their theories of change as part of …
Introduction to Citizenship
This article does not have an description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website
Introduction
According to World Bank estimates of September 2016, two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, the share of global
Power in Practice
Theorising about power has developed over the past decade in ways that support significantly more nuanced understanding and analysis; the implications of this for development practice are becoming better understood, but have yet to be systematically integrated in programme design and implementation. This article explores the process of strengthening and developing power analysis in the international non‐governmental organisation (NGO), Oxfam. Som…
Notes On Native Law and Custom in Kenya
It is natural that customary law, as compared to written laws, varies like language from tribe to tribe and that in larger or scattered tribes there are different practices within a tribe itself. Customary legal systems have not been recorded in full. For example, the Turkana who are purely pastoral have no formal land law because grazing and rights to water are common to all members of the tribe. The Ndorobo had transitional rights of hunting an…
Empowerment examined
'Empowerment' is a term often used in development work, but rarely defined. This article explores the meaning of empowerment, in the context of its root-concept: power. Different understandings of what constitutes power lead to a variety of interpretations of empowerment, and hence to a range of implications for development policy and practice. 'Empowerment' terminology makes it possible to analyse power, inequality, and oppression; but to be of …
Questioning Empowerment
A Word of the Times, but What Does it Mean? Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development
Empowerment has become rather a buzz word for the 1990s. As well as now being used by Western politicians, it was a word frequently heard at the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and at the World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994. Current use of the word remains ill-defined, however, in the development context: its users tend to assume that the appropriate meaning will be understood without being explained. It is used by people repre…
Alive and kicking
Globalisation is a process that affects people in the North as well as the South. Its negative effects are felt by people living in poverty in wealthier countries, as well as by those living in poorer ones. Drawing on experience from the work of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme, this article explores some aspects of how changing labour markets affect men and women living in poverty in the UK. People's sex is a key determinant of who is poor. Women an…
Good Governance and Development; Public Administration and Democratic Governance
Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-230-52566-5, 320 pp. New York, United Nations, 2007, ISBN: 978-92-1-123160-1, 359 pp. Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Pr
Thinking about change for development practice
Development practice is informed by theories of change, but individuals and organisations may not make them explicit. Practitioners may be unaware of the extent to which strategic choices and debates are informed by disparate thinking about how history happens and the role of purposeful intervention for progressive social change. In the past few years, some Oxfam GB staff have been creating processes to debate their theories of change as part of …
Fixing Fragile States
Introduction to Citizenship
This article does not have an description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website
The Participation Reader
Gender and Development 20 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2012.663648 Cornwall, Andrea (ed.) The Participation Reader London and New York: Zed Books, ISBN: 978-1842774038, 393 pp. My grea
Introduction
According to World Bank estimates of September 2016, two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, the share of global
Power in Practice
Theorising about power has developed over the past decade in ways that support significantly more nuanced understanding and analysis; the implications of this for development practice are becoming better understood, but have yet to be systematically integrated in programme design and implementation. This article explores the process of strengthening and developing power analysis in the international non‐governmental organisation (NGO), Oxfam. Som…
Everyday governance in areas of contested power
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)