Prof Cecile Jackson
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Development Studies |
Cecile dot Jackson at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3379 |
Arts 1.87 |
Biography
Two strands of work define my recent research concerns; a line of thinking about epistemologies for interdisciplinary development studies research, and substantively, and interest in the ways in which well-being is not simply an individual attribute – of capabilities and functionings – but a profoundly social relational phenomena. This builds on my earlier work on gender and poverty, and on my commitment to gender analysis, which is centrally about social relations rather than gender categories, as a lens through which to understand social change. Together with colleagues working with experimental economics methods (Bereket Kebede, Arjan Verschoor, Vegard Iversen and Alistair Munroe) we designed a game to test Sen’s cooperative conflict theory, which aims to explain how gender differentiated wellbeing outcomes are patterned by intrahousehold bargaining processes, and tested the game in eastern Uganda with married couples managing and allocating money. I followed up a sample of the game participants to collect detailed information on their conjugal cooperations, conflicts and their experience of the game, and this work was the basis of the ESRC/DFID funded project currently underway. The methods we developed are also the basis of the larger comparative project, just begun, with the same team and Dr Nitya Rao, as a means to study norms of conjugal fairness in a range of societies – Nigeria, India, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.
Key Research Interests
Research Groups: Gender and Development
Recent Research Grants
2006-8: ‘Marriage, Power and Wellbeing’ DFID/ESRC Research Programme Sole researcher.
2007-10: ‘The intra-household allocation of resources: cross-cultural tests, methodological innovations and policy implications’ DFID/ESRC Research Programme Team member.
President of the Development Studies Association 2005-
Dean of the School of Development Studies 1999-2003
Consultancy on research impact assessment, gender and development and social development, in India, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Bangladesh.
Publications
2007
Jackson, Cecile, 2007, ‘Resolving risk: marriage and creative conjugality’ Development and Change 38 (1)Link to Journal Article
2006
Jackson, Cecile, 2006 'What's love got to do with it? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda' Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, Working Paper 20006-01Link to document
Jackson, Cecile, 2006,‘A match made in heaven? multi-methods for researching conjugality in a Ugandan case study.’ SOAS Seminar paper.
Jackson, Cecile, 2006, 'Feminism Spoken Here: epistemologies for interdisciplinary development research' Development and Change 37(3) 1-23 also in Bardhan P and Ray I (eds) (2007) The Contested Commons: conversations between economists & anthropologists. Blackwell
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2005
Jackson, Cecile, 2005, ‘Silence and speech: a troublesome binary for gender analysis of development’, given at ‘Stereotypes and binary divides: an interdisciplinary conference’. Centre for research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, 24-25 June 2005.Jackson, Cecile, 2005, 'Strengthening Food Policy through Gender and Intrahousehold Analaysis: impact assessment of IFPRI Multicountry Research' IMPACT ASSESSMENT Discussion Paper 23, International Food Policy Institute, Washington
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2003
Jackson, Cecile, 2003, ‘Gender analysis of land: beyond land rights for women?' Journal of Agrarian Change 3 (4): 453-480.Link to Journal Article
2002
Jackson, Cecile, 2002, ‘Disciplining gender?' in collection on Interdisciplinary Development Research introduced by Ravi Kanbur, World Development 30 (3): 497-509.Link to Journal Article
2001
Jackson, Cecile (ed.), 2001, Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development, London: Frank Cass.2000
Jackson, Cecile, and Molly Chattopadhyay, 2000, 'Identities and livelihoods: gender, ethnicity and nature in a south Bihar village' in A. Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds) Agrarian Environments: negotiating conflicts over resources and identities in India', Durham: Duke University Press.Jackson, Cecile (guest editor), 2000, 'Men at Work' in The European Journal of Development Studies 12 (2): 1-22.
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1999
Jackson, Cecile, 1999, 'Gender, irrigation and environment: arguing for agency' in Agriculture and Human Values 15 (4): 313-324.Link to Journal Article
Jackson, Cecile, 1999, 'Men's Work, masculinities and gender divisions of labour' in Journal of Development Studies 36 (1): 89-108.
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Jackson, Cecile, 1999, ‘Social exclusion and gender: does one size fit all?' European Journal of Development Research 11 (1): 125-146.
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Jackson, Cecile and Richard Palmer-Jones, 1999, ‘Rethinking gendered poverty and work' in Development and Change 30 (1): 557-584.
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1998
Jackson, Cecile,1998 ‘Women and poverty or gender and well-being?' in Journal of International Affairs 52 (1): 67-81.Link to Journal Article
Jackson, Cecile, and Richard Palmer-Jones,1998, 'Work Intensity, gender and well-being', conference paper for the UNRISD Conference on Gender and Poverty in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 1997. Now published by UNRISD, Geneva, as Occasional Paper No 10/11.
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Jackson, Cecile, and Ruth Pearson (eds), 1998, Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy, London: Routledge.
Pearson, Ruth and Jackson, Cecile, 1998, 'Interrogating Development: Feminist, Gender and Policy' in Jackson and Pearson (eds), Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy, London: Routledge.
1997
Jackson, Cecile, 1997, ‘Actor orientation and gender relations at a participatory project interface' in Goetz, A.M. (ed.) Breaking in, speaking out: making development organisations work for women in development, London: Zed Press, pp161-175.Jackson, Cecile, 1997, 'Post-poverty, gender and development?' in IDS Bulletin 28 (3): 145-155.
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Jackson, Cecile, 1997, 'Sustainable development at the sharp end: fieldworker agency in a participatory project' in Development in Practice 7 (1): 237-247.
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Jackson, Cecile, 1997, 'Women in critical realist environmentalism: subaltern to the species?' in Economy and Society 29 (1): 62-80.
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Jackson, Cecile, with Richard Palmer-Jones, 1997, 'Work intensity, poverty and gender in sustainable development' in Food Policy 22 (1): 39-62.
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1996
Jackson, Cecile, 1996, 'Gender and participation at a project interface' in Public Administration and Development 16 (5): 503-11.Jackson, Cecile, ‘1996, Rescuing gender from the poverty trap' in World Development 24 (3): 489-504.
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Jackson, Cecile, 1996, ‘Still stirred by the promise of modernity' in New Left Review 217 (April): 148-154.
1995
Jackson, Cecile, 1996, 'From conjugal contracts to environmental relations: some thoughts on labour and technology' in IDS Bulletin 26 (1): 33-40.Link to Journal Article
Jackson, Cecile, 1996, 'Radical environmental myths: a gender perspective' in New Left Review 201: 124-143.
1994
Jackson, Cecile, 1994, 'Gender Analysis of Green Development' in Redclift, M. and Benton, T. (eds) Social Theory and the Environment, London: Routledge.Jackson, Cecile, 1994, 'Questioning synergism: win-win with women in population and environment policies?' in Clark, J. and Zaba, B. (eds) Environment and Population Change, Liege: Ordina Editions and IUSSP.
1993
Jackson, Cecile,1993 'Doing what comes naturally? Gender and Environment in the Third World ' World Development 21(12).Link to Journal Article
Jackson, Cecile, 1993, 'Environmentalisms and gender interests in the Third World' in Development and Change 24 (4): 649-677.
Teaching Interests
Priti Biswas; ‘Poverty in Old Age: A Case Study of Bangladesh’
Celeste De La Huerta Nunez; ‘Gender, Risk and Intrahousehold Allocation: A Study of Risk Sharing Within Rural Households in Mexico’
Kathrin Forstner; ‘Economic and Socio-cultural Impacts of Women's Craft Cooperatives in Southern Peru’
Zhiqiu Liu; ‘From Community to Household Responsibility: How Livelihoods and Agrobiodiversity Have Changed Rural China Since 1978’
Paramita Muljono; ‘Gender Dynamics in Indonesian Bureaucracy’
Odra Saucedo Delgado; ‘Moral Economy of Social Protection/Social Development’
