15 October 2025, 17:00–18:30 BST
At Institute of Education or online
GAD (Gender and Development) theory, and the activist academics who developed these ideas from the 1980’s, have engaged sporadically and sometimes critically with the field of education and international development. Elaine Unterhalter’s recently published article in Third World Quarterly reviews some of this history.
In this CEID (Centre for Education and International Development) seminar one of the major GAD writers, Naila Kabeer, discusses the analysis Elaine Unterhalter makes. She reflects on the ways in which she considered education in her initial GAD monograph, published in 1994, Reversed Realities, which drew on data collected in Bangladesh, her extensive contributions to GAD debates, and her most recent book published in 2024 Renegotiating patriarchy: gender, agency and the Bangladesh paradox.
Speakers:
Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE) and Faculty Associate at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute
Elaine Unterhalter is Professor of Education and International Development at UCL