Girls, power and international development: agency and activism in the global North and South

Walters, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-7065 2025. Girls, power and international development: agency and activism in the global North and South. Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics, University of Bristol Press.

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Abstract

The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been critiqued for depoliticising global and gender inequalities, portraying girls from the Global South as responsible for lifting entire communities out of poverty and encouraging girls in the Global North to see themselves as the saviours of their Southern counterparts. Drawing on focus groups with Girl Up members from the UK, US and Malawi, this book demonstrates how girls reflect critically on the Girl Up discourse, reject its individualistic vision of girls’ empowerment and interact with their Northern/Southern counterparts in a spirit of mutual learning and respect. Its analysis demonstrates how the girls use participation in the campaign to develop their own more complex, radical and collective visions of girls’ empowerment.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Publisher:	University of Bristol Press
ISBN:	978-1529238457
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Last Modified:	30 May 2025 16:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178548

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