TAG: BRICS

Sexual Politics from March to May 2022

>>> Read in PDF First Words Since April 2020, SPW newsletters have been tracking and analyzing sexual politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]

Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: August-October 2021

Since July, when we published our last Special Edition, as you will see in this issue, a lot has happened in the pandemic and in the field of sexual politics. Once again, the pages that follow are quite dense, but we remind you that the sections are relatively autonomous and can be read separately.

Sexual Politics in April and May 2017

In April and May, Brazilian crisis has deepened further more, prompting colossal political chaos which reverberated in sexual politics. Sonia Corrêa, SPW co-chair, assess the deep connections within the crisis regarding threats to abortion rights. Celebrations and good news came from around the world. In Bangkok, researchers and activists gathered

Sexual Politics in late October and November 2016

November began with a resounding shift in global politics: Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. As the reactions flooded through the world media, SPW has developed a preliminary view on what this may imply for sexual politics in the US and beyond and compiled a series of articles written by a wide […]

Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights at the AWID Forum

The session examined how the geopolitical shifts implied in the articulation of these global South countries in new blocs, especially the BRICS, has generated expectations that this emergence of “powers from the South” would eventually open up space for new platforms for the political work on sexuality, gender and human rights, that would not be caught by overlapping North-South tensions (or post-colonial effects) that perennially cross these fields of debate.

Why gender and sexuality are central to China’s relationships with the Global South

China’s interactions with the global South have been the subject of much attention and study from both inside and outside the country. Yet issues of gender and sexuality have been largely ignored.

Civil Societies’ Dialogue on Development

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Civil Society from the BRICS: Emerging Roles in the New International Development Landscape

This report focuses on ‘civil society’ in just one of the many senses in which the term is used: the sense summarised by Edwards (2009) as referring to ‘the world of associational life’ (rather than alternative conceptualisations of civil society as ‘the good society’ or ‘the public sphere’).

New issue of Jacobin is out

The new issue of Jacobin was released. “Uneven and Combined” takes on questions of development in the Global South, the (less than emancipatory) rise of the BRICS, and possible alternatives to neoliberalism. Click here to learn more.

The Sexual Politics landscape in August 2015 and early September

SPW has the great pleasure to announce the publication of Working Paper nº 11 Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant. Authored by Sonia Corrêa and akshay khanna, the article is part of a series of analyses developed by the project Emerging powers, sexuality and human rights. The other products of this […]

Working paper No. 11- Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant

In 2013, in collaboration with partners, SPW began a new line of work that examines the intersections between geopolitical trends — coalescing around the “emergence” Brazil, China, India and South Africa — and the politics of sexuality and human rights. A package of new products resulting from the project were made available in May 2015. Now, […]