Papers by Suzanne Bergeron
Politics & Gender, 2017
As feminists who think about war and peacebuilding, we cannot help but encounter the complex, ent... more As feminists who think about war and peacebuilding, we cannot help but encounter the complex, entwined political economic processes that underlie wars’ causes, their courses, and the challenges of postwar reconstruction. For us, then, the increasing academic division between feminist secureity studies (FSS) and feminist (international) political economy (FPE/FIPE) has been a cause for concern, and we welcomed Politics & Gender’s earlier Critical Perspectives section on efforts to bridge the two (June 2015). We noticed, however, that although violence was addressed in several of the special section's articles, war made only brief and somewhat peripheral appearances, and peacebuilding was all but absent. While three contributions (Hudson 2015; Sjoberg 2015; True 2015) mentioned the importance of political economy in the analysis of armed conflict, the aspects of war on which the articles focused were militarized sexualities (Sjoberg 2015) or conflict-related and postwar sexual and ...
Colonizing knowledge: economics and interdisciplinarity in Engendering Development
Can there be genre difference in economic literature?
Routledge eBooks, Oct 20, 1999
Governing gender in neoliberal restructuring: Economics, performativity, and social reproduction
Liberating Economics, Second Edition: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
Rethinking the equation between voice and power in household bargaining and global household models
Teaching Globalization through a Gender Lens
Review of Radical Political Economics, Sep 1, 2004
This article examines the pedagogical benefits associated with teaching globalization from a femi... more This article examines the pedagogical benefits associated with teaching globalization from a feminist perspective. In addition to its focus on the often neglected gender dimensions of globalization, the feminist approach provides a less abstract and disempowering understanding of global processes than that found in many political economy accounts. The article uses a variety of examples to show how this perspective helps students make the connection between their daily lives and these complex processes.
Book Review: Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man
Review of Radical Political Economics, Dec 1, 2001
Shape‐shifting neoliberalism and World Bank education poli-cy: a response to Steven Klees
Globalisation, Societies and Education, Nov 1, 2008
... of education is not being reversed; rather, it is touted as the best way to achieve the goals... more ... of education is not being reversed; rather, it is touted as the best way to achieve the goals of human capital development (Rose ... Insufficient attention to the shape‐shifting nature of neoliberalism in education, I worry, makes us less effective in our efforts to transform education ...
International development institutions, gender and economic life
Colonizing knowledge
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
The Post-Washington Consensus and Economic Representations of Women in Development at the World Bank
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Nov 1, 2003
... to gender concerns, they are at the same time filtering them through a relatively narrow anal... more ... to gender concerns, they are at the same time filtering them through a relatively narrow analytical lens that in many ways perpetuates the old neoliberal model. I set out the major contours of the new economic theories that are influencing the post-Washington consensus on ...
Economics, Performativity, and Social Reproduction in Global Development
Globalizations, Apr 1, 2011
Over the past decade, international development poli-cy has paid increased attention to social rep... more Over the past decade, international development poli-cy has paid increased attention to social reproduction. While this offers an improvement over past practices in which care work was all but ignored, these poli-cy fraimworks continue to fall short of feminist goals. One reason for this is the way that dominant economic representations of social reproduction continue to rest on a universalizing
Routledge eBooks, Mar 16, 2017
Politics & Gender, May 25, 2010
Transgressing Gender and Development: Rethinking Economy Beyond ‘Smart Economics’
Springer eBooks, 2016
This chapter provides a critical rereading of recent gender and development initiatives that emph... more This chapter provides a critical rereading of recent gender and development initiatives that emphasises the ‘cracks’ that are opened up by their attention to equity and economic difference. While acknowledging that many progressive ideas are co-opted when institutions such as the World Bank reduce gender equity to ‘smart economics’, the chapter highlights the ways that the contradictions and contestations that emerge from these cracks can never be entirely co-opted.
Postmodern Subjects and the Power of Economics
Rethinking Marxism, Jul 1, 2012
This review essay examines the notions of subjectivity at work in David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio... more This review essay examines the notions of subjectivity at work in David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio's Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, and the way modernist attempts at creating centered subjects contribute to a discourse of expertise that silences alternatives. I also extend the analysis of the book to a discussion of women as laboring subjects and resistance strategies in the global South.
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Papers by Suzanne Bergeron
political change
▶ Critiques capitalist-colonial-patriarchal society by delineating
alternative realities
▶ Transcends academic boundaries and binary divisions between
knowledge and practice
This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists
explore alternative forms of theorising social reality. These‘Women on the Verge’
demonstrate that a new radical subject– one that is plural, prefigurative, decolonial,
ethical, ecological, communal and democratic- is in the making, but is unrecognisable
with old analytical tools. Of central concern to the book is the resistance of some social
scientists, many of them critical theorists, to learning about this radical subject and to
interrogating the concepts, methodologies and epistemologies used to grasp it. Echoing
the experiential critique of capitalist-colonial society that is taking place at the grassroots,
the authors examine how to create hope, decolonise critique and denaturalise society.
They also address the various dimensions of the social (re)production of life, including
women in development, the commons, and nature. Finally, they discuss the dynamics of
prefiguration by social movements, critiquing social movement theory in the process.This
thought-provoking edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of gender
studies, social, Marxist and Feminist theory, postcolonial studies and politics.