Ms Laine Young1, Dr Alison Blay-Palmer1 1Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada   This presentation explores the author’s dissertation research with urban growers in Quito, Ecuador. Quito’s urban agriculture (UA) project, AGRUPAR, is wildly successful in promoting urban food growth, equity,...

Dr Debarati Sen1 1Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, USA   What is their relationship to gendered militarized labor, everyday entrepreneurialism and contemporary development practices? This  question gains salience in contemporary India where autonomy movements (with a development focused agenda) have entered...

Dr Maree Pardy1 1Deakin University, Geelong, Australia   Intersectionality is now axiomatic to feminist theory and increasingly to policy and practice. One of the most productive theoretical critiques of applied intersectionality is its tendency to become trapped within the logic...

Prof. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt1 1The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia   Contemporary Gender and Development (GAD) analytical frameworks have predominantly been based on a sex-based binary interpretation. Intersectionality, described as a ‘The greatest contribution [of feminist theorists] to social science...