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Jethro Pettit, Research Fellow, Power, Participation and Social Change @ the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, works on the design and facilitation of learning and on creative approaches to reflective practice, participatory action research and social leadership, within progressive development and social change efforts; he is focused on curriculum and teaching practices for use in training, facilitation, adult learning and higher education settings, as well as organisational learning and change processes, and how these relate to broader efforts to strengthen civil and

The challenge to platforms for gender equality comes not just from actors with fundamentalist agendas, but from a conjuncture where women’s rights have been opportunistically instrumentalized to serve geopolitical goals, and neo-liberal policies have severed social justice from gender equality concerns

This article uses Hilkka Pietilä’s reconceptualization of the economy as three spheres of production (free, protected and fettered) to illuminate the new ways in which neo-liberal globalization is intensifying exploitative capitalist processes. The study focuses on the particular vulnerabilities of women, the value of their unpaid work, and the transformative significance of their resistance.