Public Policy Making, Gender, and Human Security in the Caribbean

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mc Fee, Deborah N. (Editor), Rogers, Tracie A. (Editor)
Summary:XLVII, 440 p. 30 illus., 25 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Edition:1st ed. 2025.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81592-8
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Public policy is public space: stakeholders, civil society and alternative public policy makers
  • Chapter 1: Women Working for Social Progress (“Workingwomen”): The Campaign to End Corporal Punishment
  • Chapter 2: Climate Change, ‘Bushfires’ and Possibilities of Civil Society Based Policy-making in Trinidad and Tobago: Making Room at the Table
  • Chapter 3: Child Sexual Abuse, ChildLinK, Civil Society and Communities of Practice in Collaboration with the Guyanese State
  • Chapter 4: Climate Change Conversations Gender-based violence interventions in Dominica – Before and after the storms: an interview with Ms. Tina Alexander
  • Part 2: Human security complexities and caribbean public policy
  • Chapter 5: Displacing the Masculine Protagonist: Women, the Arms Trade Treaty, Human Security and Gun Violence in Trinidad & Tobago
  • Chapter 6: Intergenerational Trauma and Neglect: Social Housing as a Strategy for Sustainable Development
  • Chapter 7: Social Policy Implications for a Restorative Prisoner Re-entry Process
  • Chapter 8: Interconnected Threads: From Global Governance to Local Realities in Human Chapter 9: Security: An Interview with Professor Craig Murphy
  • Part 3: Crosscutting gender: social policy: sectoral reflections and invisibilities
  • Chapter 10: Beijing To and Fro: From Women’s Bureaus to Gender Divisions
  • Chapter 11: Policy-ing Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
  • Chapter 12: “Our Law to Access”: The Role of Women’s Rights Organisations in the Passage and Implementation of Guyana’s Abortion Law
  • Chapter 13: Persistent Invisibilities: Purposive Erasure of Marginalised and Minoritised Gender Identities in Caribbean Policy Making
  • Chapter 14: The Colonial Origins of Social Policy and Social Work in Guyana
  • Chapter 15: Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to Rank Policy Aspirations for Child Protection in Aruba: A Human Capability Approach
  • Chapter 16: Social Policy Contestations from Within the Academy. An interview with Dr. Innette Cambridge
  • Part 4: public policy- 21st century caribbean reflections and futures
  • Chapter 17: Understanding the Persistence of the Westminster Whitehall Model in the Caribbean: The Challenges Facing Constitutional Reformers: Interview with Professor Hamid Ghany
  • Chapter 18: Recording Our Policy Process: The Caribbean’s Postcolonial Challenge of Re-Membering as We Contend with Digitisation and Freedom of Information
  • Chapter 19: In Search for Repair: Reflections on Grief, the Repaired and Reparations.