Walking the tightrope: experiences of teaching gender and development practice

Lakshmi Lingam and Shewli Kumar

Development in Practice, 2024, vol. 34, issue 7, 932-945

Abstract: This paper accounts for the experiences of the authors who teach feminist approaches to gender and development practice at a university in India. As a space for discourse and debate on development, the university is consistently shaped by the embodied experiences of students who enter the university from diverse subject positions through affirmative action policies. This practice note shares how the teachers engage with teaching a course titled “Women, Development Practice and Politics”. The paper highlights the inadequacies in gender and development (GAD) literature that views gender as a binary and women as a homogenous group, remains silent on the intersectional axis of gender inequalities, and uncritical of the development paradigm. The paper shares how the teachers overcome these deficiencies in the literature by creating a fluid connection with the “field”, thereby highlighting the centrality of place-based (time–space-embodied) knowledges and reclaiming the legacy of critique, an attribute which is at the core of the GAD approach.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2024.2395483

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