CCCS Seminar

Posted on | April 13, 2006 | 1 Comment

The Gendered Ties That Bind the ‘New Global Governance’ to the ‘New Information Economy’
Thursday 20 April
Assoc Professor Lisa McLaughlin
Mass Communication & Women’s Studies, Miami University-Ohio
2.00pm-3.30pm
CCCS Seminar Room, Forgan Smith Tower, Level 4

Lisa McLaughlin is a CCCS Visiting Fellow, and recipient of a University of Queensland Travel Award for International Collaborative Research.

As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) illustrates, the ‘new multi-stakeholderism’ and public-private partnerships work in concert to advance the ‘corporatization’ of international development initiatives. In this presentation, Assoc Professor McLaughlin maintains that the gender mainstreaming advocated by the UN and various gender-oriented organizations necessitates that summits such as the WSIS actively include gender advocates who adhere to formal, governmental modalities while passively excluding those who actively oppose market-led approaches to development, and she will link this to an agenda in which women of the Global South are offered the potential for emancipation and mobility through access to technology but instead are apt to become place-based informational labor.

More information is available here.

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  1. Greg
    April 13th, 2006 @ 12:00 pm

    Hi Mel, Great to hear something blog-wise from you, and about Lisa. She is terrific and though it’s been years since I’ve seen her, tell ‘hi’ from me if you attend her talk or otherwise bump into her along the way. Oh, and note my new e-mail address (don’t remember if you have it or not). Details/report on Hoggart conference too? take care, Greg

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