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Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development

30 years ago, whilst working at IDS and teaching in MA Gender and Development, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought.
23 Oct 2024
Written by Amelia Hellman
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Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development

Thursday 14 November 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by the LSE Department of Geography and Environment and LSE Department of International Development 

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)


30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship on gender and development. It is widely regarded as a (if not the) key text in the field of Feminist Development Studies. It provided path-breaking perspectives on the politics of development knowledge production, specifically about how excluding feminist knowledge shaped development practice and unequal outcomes.

Several leading thinkers will join us in the fields of feminist economics and development studies to reflect on the legacies of this groundbreaking text and what has changed 30 years on.

Meet our speakers and chair

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at King's College London.

Naomi Hossain (@nomhossain) is Global Research Professor in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. 

Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of Gender Studies and Department of International Development at LSE.

Erin Lentz is an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She teaches on research and empirical methods, development policy, gender and development, and food policy. Her research explores food security; early warning systems; gender, nutrition, and agriculture linkages; and U.S. food aid and food assistance policies.

David Lewis is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the Department of International Development at LSE.

More about this event

This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.

The Department of Geography and Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

The Department of International Development (@LSE_ID) promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change.

Hashtag for this event: #LSEEvents


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