Episode 25: Naila Kabeer talks about how Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Democracy intersect
In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire." Atje Drexler and Pradnya Bivalkar talk to Naila Kabeer about different forms of inequalities, how gender driven inequalities make themselves visible at the intersection of climate change and how all of this contributes to conversations on democracy.
Naila Kabeer is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Development in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics (LSE) and on the Faculty of LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. Before that, she was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and Professor at the Department of International Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her main research interests are gender, poverty, labour markets, social protection and citizenship. Her earliest book was Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development thought (1994), her latest is Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, agency and the Bangladesh Paradox (Open Access, LSE Press September 2024) and there have been several articles, books and blogs in between. She has been associated in an editorial capacity with a number of leading journals in her field, including Development and Change, Gender and Development, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies and the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal. She is on the advisory editorial board of Feminist Economics and was President of the International Association of Feminist Economics (2018-2019).