The Remaking of Social Contracts Global Feminists in the Twenty-First Century [Hardcover]

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.

Foreword - Josefa Francisco

Part I Introductory overview
Social contracts revisited: the promise of human rights - Gita Sen and Marina Durano

Part II Governing globalization: critiquing the reproduction of inequality
1 Financialization, distribution and inequality - Stephanie Seguino
Box II.1 Multilateralism: from advancement to self defence - Barbara Adams
Box II.2 Women's status and free trade in the Pacific - Lice Cokanasiga
2 New poles of accumulation and realignment of power in the twenty-first century - Yao Graham and Hibist Wendemu Kassa
3 The modern business of war - Oscar Ugarteche
Box II.3 Militarization, illicit economies and governance - Adebayo Olukoshi
Box II.4 Commodity exports and persistent inequality in Latin America - Nicole Bidegain Ponte
4 The convergences and divergences of human rights and political economy - Aldo Caliari

Part III Political ecology and climate justice: tackling sustainability and climate change
5 Climate non-negotiables - Anita Nayar
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