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FIIN feature: The dilemma of women empowerment in informal artisanal and small-scale gold ore mining in Ghana

Available online first at: taylorfrancis.com James Natia Adam, Timothy Adams, Jean-David Gerber &Michèle Amacker |Michael Hardman (Reviewing editor)Institute of Geography, University of Bern; Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, University of Bern https://www.un-ihe.org/jenniver-sehring Abstract: For several years, women demand more decision-making…

FIIN feature: Gendered River Basin Institutions: The Chu–Talas Commission in Central Asia

Available online first at: taylorfrancis.com Jenniver SehringSenior Lecturer in Water Governance and Diplomacy, IHE Delft https://www.un-ihe.org/jenniver-sehring Abstract: This chapter from Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation, sheds light on how gender perceptions and…

FIIN feature: Feminist Institutionalism(s)

Available online first at: https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2022.15 Matthijs BogaardsPolitical Science, Central European University, Vienna, Austria https://people.ceu.edu/matthijs_bogaards Abstract: Over the past 10 years, feminist scholarship has made important contributions to the new institutionalism in political science. This literature has developed into two directions.…

Upcoming webinar: FIIN presents ‘Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa’

Date: 7 June 2022, 10:00 - 11:30am (CEST) Throughout the past three decades, demands to increase women's political representation across the African continent have sprouted up in the context of broader constitutional reform and the aftermath of civil conflict. Following…