Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean

 

Activities | Public Lectures / Events | Workshops

 

Activities

2012
Launch of the Project

Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, Lecturer, IGDS, UWI St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago gives the background to the IGDS Research Project "Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean: Women's Understandings of Politics, Experiences of Political Contestation and the Possibilities for Gender Transformation for which she is the Lead Researcher. The event is the IGDS Public Lecture in Commemoration of International Women's Day 2012 and Launch of the IGDS Research Project "Politics, Power and Gender Justice: Women's Understandings of Politics, Experiences of Political Contestation and the Possibilities for Gender Transformation" on Wednesday, March 14th 2012, at 6:00 p.m., at Daaga Auditorium, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

Gabrielle Hosein introduces the project = You Tube video

2012
Tea at the Senate

2012, April
WINAD Roundtable

The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) in collaboration with the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), The University of the West I...ndies hosted a Women’s Conversation and Policy Roundtable on Women, Politics and Activism. This conversation and roundtable took place on Tuesday, March 13th 2012 at WINAD House, 11 Meyler Street, Belmont. The invited guests included women in politics, both at the national and local government levels, and women involved in activism and community organizing both nationally and regionally. Attendance was by invitation only for this landmark event on the International Women’s Day Calendar 2012.

2012, October

Regional and Historical Review Findings

Objectives:

  • To provide an overview of how struggles, successes, strategies and resistances associated with women’s political leadership, gender policies, quota systems, and feminist advocacy around transformational leadership may influence the implementation of these four strategies and their effectiveness in securing gender justice throughout the Anglophone Caribbean region;
  • To explore how Phase 1 research on the regional and historical struggles associated with these four strategies informs the methodological and epistemological considerations for Phase Two data collection on women’s political leadership, gender policies, quota systems and feminist advocacy around transformational leadership in contemporary practice, and these strategies’ effectiveness of securing gender justice throughout the Region;
  • To finalize research questions and data collection methods for four research case studies aimed at examining women’s political leadership, gender policies, quota systems and feminist advocacy movements and their effectiveness of securing gender justice throughout the Region; and;
  • To learn about existing research initiatives throughout the Region related to women’ s political leadership, politics, citizenship and gender justice.