The Remaking of Social Contracts

Gita Sen is Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, and was until recently Professor of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She has been for many years a feminist analyst, activist and advocate on the political economy of globalization, and on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a member of DAWN's Executive Committee.Marina Durano was a member of DAWN's Executive Committee from 2008 to 2011, working on gender issues in financing for development, including the examination of gender issues in international trade policies. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Women's Development Research Centre (KANITA) of the Universiti Sains Malaysia, and is now an Assistant Professor at the Asian Center at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manchester.

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism, ecological tipping points, the nation state, movement-building, sexuality and reproduction, and religious fundamentalism. These themes are of wide-ranging importance for the survival and well-being of us all, and reflect the many dimensions and inter-connectedness of our lives. Using feminist lenses, the book puts forward a holistic and radical understanding of the synergies, tensions and contradictions between social movements and global, regional and local power structures and processes, and it points to other alternatives and possibilities for this fierce new world.

Powerful insights from leading gender and development scholars.

Foreword - Josefa FranciscoPart I: Introductory overviewSocial Contracts Revisited: The Promise of Human Rights - Gita Sen and Marina DuranoPart II: Governing Globalization: Critiquing the Reproduction of Inequality1. Financialization, Distribution and Inequality - Stephanie SeguinoBox II.1 Multilateralism: From Advancement to Self Defence - Barbara AdamsBox II.2 Women's Status and Free Trade in the Pacific - Lice Cokanasiga2. New Poles of Accumulation and Realignment of Power in the Twenty-First Century - Yao Graham and Hibist Wendemu Kassa3. The Modern Business of War - Oscar UgartecheBox II.3 Militarization, Illicit Economies and Governance - Adebayo OlukoshiBox II.4 Commodity Exports and Persistent Inequality in Latin America - Nicole Bidegain Ponte4. The Convergences and Divergences of Human Rights and Political Economy - Aldo CaliariPart III: Political Ecology and Climate Justice: Tackling Sustainability and Climate Change5. Climate Non-Negotiables - Anita NayarBox III.1 Primitive Accumulation Revisited - Gita Sen6. Geoengineering: A Gender Issue? - Diana BronsonBox III.2 Green Rhetoric in the Asian fiscal Stimulus - Marina Durano7. Land Grabs, Food Security and Climate Justice: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa - Zo RandriamaroBox III.3 African feminist resistances and climate change politics - Hibist Wendemu KassaPart IV: Secularism and biopolitics: confronting fundamentalism and deciphering biopolitics8. Negotiating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the UN: A Long and Winding Road - Alexandra Garita and Francoise Girard9. The Making of a Secular Contract - Fatou Sow and Magaly PazelloBox IV.1 The Abortion Debate in Latin America and the Caribbean: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back - Erika TroncosoBox IV.2 MDGs, SRHR and Poverty Reduction Policies: Evidence from a DAWN Project - Bhavya Reddy10. Sexuality as a Weapon of Biopolitics: Rethinking Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill - Rosalind PetcheskyBox IV.3 HIV and SRHR - Rodelyn MarteBox IV.4 Sexuality and Human Rights in Brazil: The Long and Winding Road - Sonia CorrêaPart V: Frontier Challenges: Building Nation-States and Social Movements11. The State of States - Claire SlatterBox V.1 ICTs: Efficient exploitation or feminist tool? - Cai Yiping12. Religious Fundamentalism and Secular Governance - Amrita ChhachhiBox V.2 Case Study of Engagement and Responses by Women's Groups in Face of Violence in Gujarat13. Reframing Peace and Security for Women - Kumudini SamuelBox V.3 LBT Rights and Militarization in a Post-Conflict Context - Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala14. Feminist Activisms for New Global Contracts Amidst Civil Indignation - Josefa Francisco and Peggy AntrobusBox V.4 The Promise and Pitfalls of UN Women - Nicole Bidegain PonteBox V.5 Young People: Shattering the Silence on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights - Jennifer Redner and Fadekemi Akinfaderin-Agarau