Doris Buss

Dados Biográficos

ID7542903
NOMEDoris Buss
PRENOMESDoris
SOBRENOMEBuss
ASSINATURABUSS D
AFILIAÇÕESLaw, Carleton University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES13
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2003
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • The Case of the Impossible Mining Lease

    Open AccessDoris Bu, Doris BussARTICLELaw/text/culture2025

    This paper begins with the quest by a Kenyan small-scale gold miner for a mining license that turns out to be almost impossible to secure. The artisanal and small-scale mining license is a comparatively recent focus of the assemblage of transnational law and policy initiatives organised around the promotion of sustainable or 'responsible' mining. Consensus is emerging across this assemblage that the formalisation of artisanal and small-scale mini…

  • Women and the Family in International Law and Development

    Doris Bu, Doris BussCHAPTEROxford Handbook of International…2023

    Informed by feminist political economy and field research on women’s livelihoods in informal gold mining and law reform, this chapter traces women and the family as targets of international development. The chapter begins with a brief consideration of family, gender and law reform within projects of empire, particularly in the 18th century, before moving to explore feminist critical reframing of economic and familial relations and how these were …

  • Gendered governance and socio-economic differentiation among women artisanal and small-scale miners in Central and East Africa

    B Rutherford, Doris Bu et al.ARTICLEThird World Thematics A TWQ Journal2019Citada por: 5Referências: 31

    Drawing on qualitative research data from two gold artisanal and small-scale mining sites (ASGM), one in Democratic Republic of the Congo, the other in Uganda, this paper explores the authority arrangements that govern mining livelihoods in these sites, tracing their gendered forms and operation. The inter-relationship between these arrangements and women’s mining livelihoods is considered to further explore some of the socio-economic differentia…

  • Rwanda

    Doris Bu, Doris Buss et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Gender and…2017

    Since the end of the genocide and civil war in Rwanda, various measures have been implemented to facilitate women’s political participation. This chapter looks to post-conflict Rwanda as a case study in the successes and limitations in efforts to increase women’s participation in public life. The chapter details the desired outcomes of increased political participation by women before turning to the Rwandan example. It argues that while the incre…

  • Marriage by Force

    Doris Buss, Emily S Burrill et al.BOOKMarriage by Force?2016

  • Marriage by Force

    Annie Bunting, Benjamin N Lawrance et al.BOOKMarriage by Force?2016

  • Measurement Imperatives and Gender Politics

    Doris Bu, Doris BussARTICLESocial Politics International…2015Citada por: 8Referências: 9

    Doing gender equality policy work increasingly involves measurement, whether through the gathering and analysis of data on gender inequality, or the reporting and accounting for gender programming outcomes and outputs. This introduction to a special issue on gender and the measurement imperative outlines some of the main strands in the emerging critical literature on measurement, highlighting two main themes: measurement and social construction—t…

  • Globalizing Family Values

    Doris Bu, Doris Buss et al.BOOKGlobalizing Family Values2003