Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies

Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections

By (author) Gudrun Lachenmann, Petra Dannecker Contributions by Salma A. Nageeb, Nadine Sieveking, Anna Spiegel

Publication date:

29 May 2008

Length of book:

270 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739126196

Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies explores the negotiation processes of global development concepts such as poverty alleviation, human rights, and gender equality. It focuses on three countries which that are undergoing different Islamisation processes: Senegal, Sudan, and Malaysia. While much has been written about the hegemonic production and discursive struggle of development concepts globally, this book analyzes the negotiation of these development concepts locally and translocally. Lachenmann and Dannecker present empirically grounded research to show that, although women are instrumentalized in different ways for the formation of an Islamic identity of a nation or group, they are at the same time important actors and agents in the processes of negotiating the meaning of development, restructuring of the public sphere, and transforming the societal gender order.

Part 1 Part I. Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Researching Translocal Gendered Spaces: Methodological Challenges
Part 3 Part II: Women's Organizations and their Agendas
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Women's Organizations Creating Social Space in Senegal
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Women's Organizations and Social Transformation in Malaysia: Between Social Work and Legal Reforms
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Women's Organizations and Their Agendas in Sudan: Interfaces in Different Arenas
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Women's Organizations and the Reshaping of the Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis
Part 8 Part III. Negotiating Development: Networking and Strategies of Women's Organizations
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Negotiating Women's Rights from Multiple Perspectives: The Campaign for the Reform of the Family Law in Senegal
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Negotiating Women's Rights in a Translocal Space: Women's Organizations and Networking in Malaysia
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Negotiating Peace and Rights in Sudan: Networking for the Agenda of "Violence Against Women"
Part 12 Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 13 Chapter 9. Diversified Development: Constituting Translocal Spaces through Agency

Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies is a timely and valuable work in the field of development sociology and gender studies. This volume addresses a wide range of concerns such as the self and other in cross-cultural encounters, gendered spaces, and the ongoing reconstituting of local discourses of Islam. The volume brings together a rich comparative South-South perspective on translocal networks of NGO's and international organizations and how travelling ideas have gained a new meaning through local-global interaction.