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Papers by Susie Jacobs

Research paper thumbnail of States of conflict: gender, violence and resistance

Feminist Review, 2003

This is an ambitious book, with a very broad reach and yet it manages to be extremely coherent. A... more This is an ambitious book, with a very broad reach and yet it manages to be extremely coherent. A significant strength is its geographical reach, with contributions on Africa, Brazil, Northern Ireland, India, China and the US. However, it is also broad in terms of the perspectives covered. The 12 Chapters bring together authors from a wide range of disciplines and cover an impressive array of themes under the umbrella of conflict with the focus on gender. Theoretical discussions are anchored in particular case studies of women in the military, women asylum seekers, women and resistance and women and private and public violence, while the role of the state both in sanctioning and using violence against women is explored in a number of chapters.

Research paper thumbnail of Violence, Land and Gender: Exploring Connections

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Divisions and the Formation of Ethnicities in Zimbabwe

Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class

Research paper thumbnail of Women’s Land Rights: Tenure, Organisational Issues, the Local and the Global

This paper discusses women’s relation to land and landed property through an examination of gende... more This paper discusses women’s relation to land and landed property through an examination of gender relations with regard to land rights and within agrarian reforms. Women’s – especially married women’s – relation to land often has implications for their status as members of a social and political collective. Moreover, land remains an important livelihood resource in many societies; its importance is likely to increase in time of economic crisis. The current global trend is for women to take more responsibility in agricultural production where they do not already predominate (FAO 2005).

Research paper thumbnail of Livelihoods and their impact on environments

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Agrarian Reforms And Land Rights

Research paper thumbnail of Land Tenure, Gender Relations, and Agricultural Production: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Peasantry

Agriculture, Women, and Land, 2019

... 10301 Baltimore Avenue. Beltsville, Md. 20705. Contact: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ services/req... more ... 10301 Baltimore Avenue. Beltsville, Md. 20705. Contact: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ services/request.shtml. Email: access@nal.usda.gov; URL: http://www.nal.usda.gov. AGRIS 2011 - FAO of the United Nations. Related AGRIS Results: ...

Research paper thumbnail of Student views of diversity in two faculties at MMU

MMU has a diverse student body, however ‘diversity’ is measured or conceptualised. The question o... more MMU has a diverse student body, however ‘diversity’ is measured or conceptualised. The question of diversity is an aspect of the Widening Participation policy. This project set out to explore student understanding of the concept and reality of diversity, and to research views about the impact of diversity on teaching and learning and other aspects of student experience. The intent was to utilise the different vantage points of the two lead researchers (in social and natural science disciplines) to compare student views across two faculties. It was hoped that discussions with students in focus groups would provide the opportunity for a variety of different viewpoints to be expressed, and for different aspects of ‘diversity’ to be explored

Research paper thumbnail of Gender and Land Reforms Consumption, Production and Some Contradictions

Research paper thumbnail of L'organisation des travailleuses dans le secteur de l'exportation horticole : études de cas d'Afrique de l'Est

This article is based on the work carried out by Women Working Worldwide a UK-based organization ... more This article is based on the work carried out by Women Working Worldwide a UK-based organization which supports, along with its partners, the development of advocacy and organizing strategies for the recognition and the enforcement of the rights of women workers. It explores the often overlooked question of casual women workers and labour organizing in the East African export horticultural sector. This article draws on primary action research and looks more particularly at horticultural farms in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. It demonstrates that by putting a focus on the needs of women workers, feminist labour agitation has promoted new forms of labour organization. It highlights successes, barriers and challenges for the future. Introduction This article focuses on the organization of women working on a casual basis on agribusiness farms. It discusses the case of women workers in East African horticulture, a hitherto little-researched group in a sector often overlooked in social r...

Research paper thumbnail of Land reforms, land titling and gender dilemmas in Africa: an exploration of issues

Research paper thumbnail of Globalisation, states and women’s agency

Research paper thumbnail of 15. The effects of land reform on gender relations in Zimbabwe

Research paper thumbnail of New Forms, Longstanding Issues, and some Successes: Feminist Networks and Organising in a Globalising Era

Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian reform

This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms. Beginning with definitions, it... more This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms. Beginning with definitions, it moves on to discuss debates over political intent and economic outcomes of (redistributionist) reforms as well as three current issues: gender, land rights and land reforms; neoliberal ‘reforms’ and land titling and land reforms’ contemporary relevance. It concludes that land and agrarian reforms continue to be of much importance for poverty alleviation, food security and sustainable agriculture, particularly in a world framed by neoliberal policies. keywords agrarian reform ◆ food security ◆ gender and land rights ◆ land reform ◆ land redistribution ◆ land rights ◆ rural classes

Research paper thumbnail of Ethnicity and gender in degree attainment: an extensive survey of views and activities in English HEIs

Executive summary This study gives a 'snapshot'indication of vi... more Executive summary This study gives a 'snapshot'indication of views, perceptions and opinions concerning differential undergraduate degree attainment by ethnicity and gender in England. The research was prompted by the findings of a DfES study (Broecke and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual harassment in an east African agribusiness supply chain

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015

This article discusses sexual harassment in the east African cut-flower and horticultural industr... more This article discusses sexual harassment in the east African cut-flower and horticultural industry, based on research on 62 farms in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It argues that sexual harassment is fostered both by coercive labour conditions within global value chains and by existing hierarchical gender relations. The research finds that harassment is widespread, that many lack a vocabulary to describe or discuss this, and that female casual and temporary workers are most likely to be targeted. Action research coupled with organisation of workers, however, has been effective in giving ‘voice’ to those suffering harassment: this is a first step in a feminist labour mobilisation and policy formulation. Procedures against sexual harassment are beginning to be formulated: a key concern is implementation. Addressing sexual harassment is central in ensuring the security of working people, particularly the most marginalised.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender and Agrarian Reforms

Research paper thumbnail of Beneficial for women? Global trends in gender, land and titling

Gender and rural globalization: international perspectives on gender and rural development

Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian reforms

Current Sociology, 2013

This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms, beginning with definitions. It... more This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms, beginning with definitions. It analyses debates over political intent and the contradictory economic outcomes of (redistributionist) reforms: these decrease some class inequalities but hold potential for further differentiation in the countryside. It also takes up three current issues: gender, land rights and land reforms, neoliberal ‘reforms’, titling and land ‘grabs’, and agrarian reforms’ contemporary relevance in the context of globalising trends. It concludes that land and agrarian reforms continue to be of much importance to poverty alleviation, food security and sustainable agriculture, particularly in a world framed by neoliberal policies.

Research paper thumbnail of States of conflict: gender, violence and resistance

Feminist Review, 2003

This is an ambitious book, with a very broad reach and yet it manages to be extremely coherent. A... more This is an ambitious book, with a very broad reach and yet it manages to be extremely coherent. A significant strength is its geographical reach, with contributions on Africa, Brazil, Northern Ireland, India, China and the US. However, it is also broad in terms of the perspectives covered. The 12 Chapters bring together authors from a wide range of disciplines and cover an impressive array of themes under the umbrella of conflict with the focus on gender. Theoretical discussions are anchored in particular case studies of women in the military, women asylum seekers, women and resistance and women and private and public violence, while the role of the state both in sanctioning and using violence against women is explored in a number of chapters.

Research paper thumbnail of Violence, Land and Gender: Exploring Connections

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Divisions and the Formation of Ethnicities in Zimbabwe

Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class

Research paper thumbnail of Women’s Land Rights: Tenure, Organisational Issues, the Local and the Global

This paper discusses women’s relation to land and landed property through an examination of gende... more This paper discusses women’s relation to land and landed property through an examination of gender relations with regard to land rights and within agrarian reforms. Women’s – especially married women’s – relation to land often has implications for their status as members of a social and political collective. Moreover, land remains an important livelihood resource in many societies; its importance is likely to increase in time of economic crisis. The current global trend is for women to take more responsibility in agricultural production where they do not already predominate (FAO 2005).

Research paper thumbnail of Livelihoods and their impact on environments

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Agrarian Reforms And Land Rights

Research paper thumbnail of Land Tenure, Gender Relations, and Agricultural Production: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Peasantry

Agriculture, Women, and Land, 2019

... 10301 Baltimore Avenue. Beltsville, Md. 20705. Contact: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ services/req... more ... 10301 Baltimore Avenue. Beltsville, Md. 20705. Contact: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ services/request.shtml. Email: access@nal.usda.gov; URL: http://www.nal.usda.gov. AGRIS 2011 - FAO of the United Nations. Related AGRIS Results: ...

Research paper thumbnail of Student views of diversity in two faculties at MMU

MMU has a diverse student body, however ‘diversity’ is measured or conceptualised. The question o... more MMU has a diverse student body, however ‘diversity’ is measured or conceptualised. The question of diversity is an aspect of the Widening Participation policy. This project set out to explore student understanding of the concept and reality of diversity, and to research views about the impact of diversity on teaching and learning and other aspects of student experience. The intent was to utilise the different vantage points of the two lead researchers (in social and natural science disciplines) to compare student views across two faculties. It was hoped that discussions with students in focus groups would provide the opportunity for a variety of different viewpoints to be expressed, and for different aspects of ‘diversity’ to be explored

Research paper thumbnail of Gender and Land Reforms Consumption, Production and Some Contradictions

Research paper thumbnail of L'organisation des travailleuses dans le secteur de l'exportation horticole : études de cas d'Afrique de l'Est

This article is based on the work carried out by Women Working Worldwide a UK-based organization ... more This article is based on the work carried out by Women Working Worldwide a UK-based organization which supports, along with its partners, the development of advocacy and organizing strategies for the recognition and the enforcement of the rights of women workers. It explores the often overlooked question of casual women workers and labour organizing in the East African export horticultural sector. This article draws on primary action research and looks more particularly at horticultural farms in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. It demonstrates that by putting a focus on the needs of women workers, feminist labour agitation has promoted new forms of labour organization. It highlights successes, barriers and challenges for the future. Introduction This article focuses on the organization of women working on a casual basis on agribusiness farms. It discusses the case of women workers in East African horticulture, a hitherto little-researched group in a sector often overlooked in social r...

Research paper thumbnail of Land reforms, land titling and gender dilemmas in Africa: an exploration of issues

Research paper thumbnail of Globalisation, states and women’s agency

Research paper thumbnail of 15. The effects of land reform on gender relations in Zimbabwe

Research paper thumbnail of New Forms, Longstanding Issues, and some Successes: Feminist Networks and Organising in a Globalising Era

Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian reform

This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms. Beginning with definitions, it... more This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms. Beginning with definitions, it moves on to discuss debates over political intent and economic outcomes of (redistributionist) reforms as well as three current issues: gender, land rights and land reforms; neoliberal ‘reforms’ and land titling and land reforms’ contemporary relevance. It concludes that land and agrarian reforms continue to be of much importance for poverty alleviation, food security and sustainable agriculture, particularly in a world framed by neoliberal policies. keywords agrarian reform ◆ food security ◆ gender and land rights ◆ land reform ◆ land redistribution ◆ land rights ◆ rural classes

Research paper thumbnail of Ethnicity and gender in degree attainment: an extensive survey of views and activities in English HEIs

Executive summary This study gives a 'snapshot'indication of vi... more Executive summary This study gives a 'snapshot'indication of views, perceptions and opinions concerning differential undergraduate degree attainment by ethnicity and gender in England. The research was prompted by the findings of a DfES study (Broecke and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual harassment in an east African agribusiness supply chain

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015

This article discusses sexual harassment in the east African cut-flower and horticultural industr... more This article discusses sexual harassment in the east African cut-flower and horticultural industry, based on research on 62 farms in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It argues that sexual harassment is fostered both by coercive labour conditions within global value chains and by existing hierarchical gender relations. The research finds that harassment is widespread, that many lack a vocabulary to describe or discuss this, and that female casual and temporary workers are most likely to be targeted. Action research coupled with organisation of workers, however, has been effective in giving ‘voice’ to those suffering harassment: this is a first step in a feminist labour mobilisation and policy formulation. Procedures against sexual harassment are beginning to be formulated: a key concern is implementation. Addressing sexual harassment is central in ensuring the security of working people, particularly the most marginalised.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender and Agrarian Reforms

Research paper thumbnail of Beneficial for women? Global trends in gender, land and titling

Gender and rural globalization: international perspectives on gender and rural development

Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian reforms

Current Sociology, 2013

This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms, beginning with definitions. It... more This article explores key issues around land and agrarian reforms, beginning with definitions. It analyses debates over political intent and the contradictory economic outcomes of (redistributionist) reforms: these decrease some class inequalities but hold potential for further differentiation in the countryside. It also takes up three current issues: gender, land rights and land reforms, neoliberal ‘reforms’, titling and land ‘grabs’, and agrarian reforms’ contemporary relevance in the context of globalising trends. It concludes that land and agrarian reforms continue to be of much importance to poverty alleviation, food security and sustainable agriculture, particularly in a world framed by neoliberal policies.