Gendering Global Governance

A critique of ‘new’ rural local governance: The case of gender in a rural Australian setting

“…One of the arguments on which new forms of governance is predicated is that the private sector has a potential and capacity that is missing from the public sector Rai, 2004). This dichotomising of the private and the public is, as Little and Jones (2000) found in their study, gendered.…”

The UN Global Compact and substantive equality for Women: revealing a ‘well hidden’ mandate

“…10 Rai, for example, characterises voluntary initiatives such as the Global Compact as the means by which 'transnational capital seeks to limit external scrutiny of its production regimes'. 11 Notwithstanding these important critiques, the Global Compact itself is worthy of study and scrutiny, because of the importance given to it by the UN system, its billing as the world's largest corporate citizenship initiative, 12 and the not insignificant participation by major TNCs. In the past six years the number of signatories has increased to the point where some 2500 firms have formally committed to the Global Compact.…”

Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory (combined PDF of all articles)

“…Since many countries in the Global South have been severely hit by austerity politics and structural adjustment programmes under IWF and World Bank (Rai 2004), their capacities for social infrastructure are deeply limited. Other proposed ways to achieve SDG 5.4 include the reduction of unpaid care, domestic and subsistence work through infrastructure and technology, as I have shown above.…”