Kelly Gerard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Gerard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerard |
| SIGNATURE | GERARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4725-6703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Graduate employability, curriculum rationalisation, and the Australian regulatory state
In June 2020, the Australian Coalition Government introduced the Job Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, seeking to discourage student uptake of humanities and social sciences (HASS) courses by increasing their cost by up 116.9%. This article offers a preliminary investigation into HASS undergraduate course offerings at four Australian universities. It finds no consistently observable effect on course offerings, but rather long-term and unevenly disper…
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing
Gender lens investing (GLI) is booming. However, while intersecting feminism and social finance, it has received scant attention from political economy scholarship on either. We argue it requires specific attention because it is not reducible to ‘social finance with gender’ or the ‘business case’ for gender equality, though it contains elements of both. Through a three-part analysis, we examine its discourse, markets, and actors to locate GLI wit…
Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential of Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships
The political practices of gender experts: Repurposing women's empowerment
Gender experts are increasingly employed across governments, multilateral donors, companies, and NGOs where they are defining a new profession and a new field of study, driving calls for research into the relationship between expertise and feminism. At the same time, the instrumentalization of the women's empowerment approach has prompted analysis of whether it can be reharnessed to its radical roots. By interviewing 25 gender experts, this artic…
Valuing women’s empowerment: Tracking funding in Southeast Asia
Women's empowerment is now a global development objective.However, the instrumentalization of this approach to gender equality has prompted calls for research into the financing of interventions.With donors now reporting the gender credentials of their spending, this article follows the money for one region-Southeast Asia-to investigate how donors are engaging with women's economic empowerment.Through a systematic review, it identifies and codes …
Locating leverage: Contesting “empowerment lite” from the lower rungs of an aid chain
The development sector’s adoption of private sector logics and practices has seen donors increasingly disburse funds using aid chains. Aid chains consist of at least two nodes, with work subcontracted from donors to organizations socially and geographically closer to beneficiaries. Aid chains enable “ethics dumping,” where subcontracting facilitates higher-tier actors distancing themselves from the messy work of engaging in the politics of interv…
Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The Asean Civil Society Conference
The dynamics of the relationship between political participation and legitimacy have received limited attention, despite the widely held view that the former contributes to the latter. This article advances conceptualizations of this relationship by demonstrating how participatory innovations can be analysed as processes of legitimation. Studies of participation highlight how institutional actors define the terms of participation, but do not atte…
Remaking the Regional: Legitimacy and Political Participation in Regional Integration
The EU's profound crisis has drawn into sharp relief the challenges of reconfiguring national democratic processes around regional political communities. Over the same period for which the EU has fractured, however, other regional organizations have intensified integration. These divergent trends raise urgent questions regarding how regional organizations seek to legitimate integration and associated measures to regionalize decision‐making, and h…
Explaining microfinance's resilience: The case of microfinance in Australia
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
Rationalizing ‘gender-wash’: Empowerment, efficiency and knowledge construction
As support for the agenda of women’s empowerment has grown, its remit has narrowed. From transforming structural inequalities, donors have increasingly focused on women’s economic empowerment, and within this sphere, specific thematic areas dominate aid programming: access to finance, markets, skills training, business development services and social protection. This trajectory indicates the persistence of the ‘efficiency approach’ to gender prog…
Affective dimensions of teaching and doing development
Like the development industry, development pedagogy and practice have begun to take into account the role of emotions and the deeper, affective and embodied experiences of understanding and doing development. In her ground‐breaking piece ‘Emotional geographies of development’, Sarah Wright illustrates how emotions not only create development subjects and associated subjectivities, but also provide a powerful entry point for resistance that may ul…
Asean as a “Rules-based Community”: Business as Usual
In establishing the ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN political elites emphasised their commitment to the rule of law. The definition of the rule of law adopted in the ASEAN Charter mirrored UN reforms that recognised the rule of law as interlinked with democracy and human rights. This commitment raises questions, given the various tactics employed by the grouping’s authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes to silence dissent. This article criti…
Asean’s governance of migrant worker rights
Temporary migrant workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment, work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an Instrument governing migrant worker rights, but a series of deadlocks have stymied this agreement. Prevailing accounts explain this impasse as the consequence of incompatible national interests, norms of non-interference and consensus, a lack of institutional capacity and the li…
Explaining Asean's Engagement of Civil Society in Policy-making: Smoke and Mirrors
Since the late 1990s, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has widened policy-making to include civil society organisations (CSOs), paralleling developments in other regional and global governance institutions where the inclusion of CSOs in policy-making is considered necessary to address these institutions' 'democracy deficit'. A rich empirical literature documents this trend, highlighting the range of participatory mechanisms and …
Asean and civil society activities in ‘created spaces’: The limits of liberty
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recently made numerous commitments to engage civil society organizations (CSOs) in its governance practices. However, the opportunities created offer limited means for CSOs to contest policy as a result of strict controls over who can participate and the forms of participation permitted. Activists have consequently pursued their agendas outside of spaces sanctioned by ASEAN through ‘created s…
Asean's Engagement of Civil Society: Regulating Dissent
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
From the Asean People's Assembly to the Asean Civil Society Conference: The Boundaries of Civil Society Advocacy
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have asserted their claim for participation in regional governance in Southeast Asia through multiple forums held since the late-1990s. The two most enduring are the ASEAN People's Assembly (APA), organised by ASEAN-ISIS and held seven times from 2000 to 2009, and the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC), organised by the Solidarity for Asian People's Advocacy network and held nine times from 2005 to the presen…
Asean and civil society activities in ‘created spaces’: The limits of liberty
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recently made numerous commitments to engage civil society organizations (CSOs) in its governance practices. However, the opportunities created offer limited means for CSOs to contest policy as a result of strict controls over who can participate and the forms of participation permitted. Activists have consequently pursued their agendas outside of spaces sanctioned by ASEAN through ‘created s…
Asean’s governance of migrant worker rights
Temporary migrant workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment, work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an Instrument governing migrant worker rights, but a series of deadlocks have stymied this agreement. Prevailing accounts explain this impasse as the consequence of incompatible national interests, norms of non-interference and consensus, a lack of institutional capacity and the li…
From the Asean People's Assembly to the Asean Civil Society Conference: The Boundaries of Civil Society Advocacy
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have asserted their claim for participation in regional governance in Southeast Asia through multiple forums held since the late-1990s. The two most enduring are the ASEAN People's Assembly (APA), organised by ASEAN-ISIS and held seven times from 2000 to 2009, and the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC), organised by the Solidarity for Asian People's Advocacy network and held nine times from 2005 to the presen…
Remaking the Regional: Legitimacy and Political Participation in Regional Integration
The EU's profound crisis has drawn into sharp relief the challenges of reconfiguring national democratic processes around regional political communities. Over the same period for which the EU has fractured, however, other regional organizations have intensified integration. These divergent trends raise urgent questions regarding how regional organizations seek to legitimate integration and associated measures to regionalize decision‐making, and h…
Explaining Asean's Engagement of Civil Society in Policy-making: Smoke and Mirrors
Since the late 1990s, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has widened policy-making to include civil society organisations (CSOs), paralleling developments in other regional and global governance institutions where the inclusion of CSOs in policy-making is considered necessary to address these institutions' 'democracy deficit'. A rich empirical literature documents this trend, highlighting the range of participatory mechanisms and …
Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The Asean Civil Society Conference
The dynamics of the relationship between political participation and legitimacy have received limited attention, despite the widely held view that the former contributes to the latter. This article advances conceptualizations of this relationship by demonstrating how participatory innovations can be analysed as processes of legitimation. Studies of participation highlight how institutional actors define the terms of participation, but do not atte…
Rationalizing ‘gender-wash’: Empowerment, efficiency and knowledge construction
As support for the agenda of women’s empowerment has grown, its remit has narrowed. From transforming structural inequalities, donors have increasingly focused on women’s economic empowerment, and within this sphere, specific thematic areas dominate aid programming: access to finance, markets, skills training, business development services and social protection. This trajectory indicates the persistence of the ‘efficiency approach’ to gender prog…
Locating leverage: Contesting “empowerment lite” from the lower rungs of an aid chain
The development sector’s adoption of private sector logics and practices has seen donors increasingly disburse funds using aid chains. Aid chains consist of at least two nodes, with work subcontracted from donors to organizations socially and geographically closer to beneficiaries. Aid chains enable “ethics dumping,” where subcontracting facilitates higher-tier actors distancing themselves from the messy work of engaging in the politics of interv…
Affective dimensions of teaching and doing development
Like the development industry, development pedagogy and practice have begun to take into account the role of emotions and the deeper, affective and embodied experiences of understanding and doing development. In her ground‐breaking piece ‘Emotional geographies of development’, Sarah Wright illustrates how emotions not only create development subjects and associated subjectivities, but also provide a powerful entry point for resistance that may ul…
The political practices of gender experts: Repurposing women's empowerment
Gender experts are increasingly employed across governments, multilateral donors, companies, and NGOs where they are defining a new profession and a new field of study, driving calls for research into the relationship between expertise and feminism. At the same time, the instrumentalization of the women's empowerment approach has prompted analysis of whether it can be reharnessed to its radical roots. By interviewing 25 gender experts, this artic…
Valuing women’s empowerment: Tracking funding in Southeast Asia
Women's empowerment is now a global development objective.However, the instrumentalization of this approach to gender equality has prompted calls for research into the financing of interventions.With donors now reporting the gender credentials of their spending, this article follows the money for one region-Southeast Asia-to investigate how donors are engaging with women's economic empowerment.Through a systematic review, it identifies and codes …
Explaining microfinance's resilience: The case of microfinance in Australia
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
Asean as a “Rules-based Community”: Business as Usual
In establishing the ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN political elites emphasised their commitment to the rule of law. The definition of the rule of law adopted in the ASEAN Charter mirrored UN reforms that recognised the rule of law as interlinked with democracy and human rights. This commitment raises questions, given the various tactics employed by the grouping’s authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes to silence dissent. This article criti…
From the Asean People's Assembly to the Asean Civil Society Conference: The Boundaries of Civil Society Advocacy
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have asserted their claim for participation in regional governance in Southeast Asia through multiple forums held since the late-1990s. The two most enduring are the ASEAN People's Assembly (APA), organised by ASEAN-ISIS and held seven times from 2000 to 2009, and the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC), organised by the Solidarity for Asian People's Advocacy network and held nine times from 2005 to the presen…
Asean and civil society activities in ‘created spaces’: The limits of liberty
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recently made numerous commitments to engage civil society organizations (CSOs) in its governance practices. However, the opportunities created offer limited means for CSOs to contest policy as a result of strict controls over who can participate and the forms of participation permitted. Activists have consequently pursued their agendas outside of spaces sanctioned by ASEAN through ‘created s…
Asean's Engagement of Civil Society: Regulating Dissent
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Explaining Asean's Engagement of Civil Society in Policy-making: Smoke and Mirrors
Since the late 1990s, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has widened policy-making to include civil society organisations (CSOs), paralleling developments in other regional and global governance institutions where the inclusion of CSOs in policy-making is considered necessary to address these institutions' 'democracy deficit'. A rich empirical literature documents this trend, highlighting the range of participatory mechanisms and …
Asean’s governance of migrant worker rights
Temporary migrant workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment, work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an Instrument governing migrant worker rights, but a series of deadlocks have stymied this agreement. Prevailing accounts explain this impasse as the consequence of incompatible national interests, norms of non-interference and consensus, a lack of institutional capacity and the li…
Affective dimensions of teaching and doing development
Like the development industry, development pedagogy and practice have begun to take into account the role of emotions and the deeper, affective and embodied experiences of understanding and doing development. In her ground‐breaking piece ‘Emotional geographies of development’, Sarah Wright illustrates how emotions not only create development subjects and associated subjectivities, but also provide a powerful entry point for resistance that may ul…
Asean as a “Rules-based Community”: Business as Usual
In establishing the ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN political elites emphasised their commitment to the rule of law. The definition of the rule of law adopted in the ASEAN Charter mirrored UN reforms that recognised the rule of law as interlinked with democracy and human rights. This commitment raises questions, given the various tactics employed by the grouping’s authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes to silence dissent. This article criti…
Explaining microfinance's resilience: The case of microfinance in Australia
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
Rationalizing ‘gender-wash’: Empowerment, efficiency and knowledge construction
As support for the agenda of women’s empowerment has grown, its remit has narrowed. From transforming structural inequalities, donors have increasingly focused on women’s economic empowerment, and within this sphere, specific thematic areas dominate aid programming: access to finance, markets, skills training, business development services and social protection. This trajectory indicates the persistence of the ‘efficiency approach’ to gender prog…
Locating leverage: Contesting “empowerment lite” from the lower rungs of an aid chain
The development sector’s adoption of private sector logics and practices has seen donors increasingly disburse funds using aid chains. Aid chains consist of at least two nodes, with work subcontracted from donors to organizations socially and geographically closer to beneficiaries. Aid chains enable “ethics dumping,” where subcontracting facilitates higher-tier actors distancing themselves from the messy work of engaging in the politics of interv…
Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The Asean Civil Society Conference
The dynamics of the relationship between political participation and legitimacy have received limited attention, despite the widely held view that the former contributes to the latter. This article advances conceptualizations of this relationship by demonstrating how participatory innovations can be analysed as processes of legitimation. Studies of participation highlight how institutional actors define the terms of participation, but do not atte…
Remaking the Regional: Legitimacy and Political Participation in Regional Integration
The EU's profound crisis has drawn into sharp relief the challenges of reconfiguring national democratic processes around regional political communities. Over the same period for which the EU has fractured, however, other regional organizations have intensified integration. These divergent trends raise urgent questions regarding how regional organizations seek to legitimate integration and associated measures to regionalize decision‐making, and h…
Doing aid chains differently: Evaluating the potential of Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships
The political practices of gender experts: Repurposing women's empowerment
Gender experts are increasingly employed across governments, multilateral donors, companies, and NGOs where they are defining a new profession and a new field of study, driving calls for research into the relationship between expertise and feminism. At the same time, the instrumentalization of the women's empowerment approach has prompted analysis of whether it can be reharnessed to its radical roots. By interviewing 25 gender experts, this artic…
Valuing women’s empowerment: Tracking funding in Southeast Asia
Women's empowerment is now a global development objective.However, the instrumentalization of this approach to gender equality has prompted calls for research into the financing of interventions.With donors now reporting the gender credentials of their spending, this article follows the money for one region-Southeast Asia-to investigate how donors are engaging with women's economic empowerment.Through a systematic review, it identifies and codes …
Graduate employability, curriculum rationalisation, and the Australian regulatory state
In June 2020, the Australian Coalition Government introduced the Job Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, seeking to discourage student uptake of humanities and social sciences (HASS) courses by increasing their cost by up 116.9%. This article offers a preliminary investigation into HASS undergraduate course offerings at four Australian universities. It finds no consistently observable effect on course offerings, but rather long-term and unevenly disper…
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing
Gender lens investing (GLI) is booming. However, while intersecting feminism and social finance, it has received scant attention from political economy scholarship on either. We argue it requires specific attention because it is not reducible to ‘social finance with gender’ or the ‘business case’ for gender equality, though it contains elements of both. Through a three-part analysis, we examine its discourse, markets, and actors to locate GLI wit…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Civil society (6 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works)