Jerker Edström
Author Biography
Jerker Edström is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) who leads the Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice programme, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). His career has focused on gender, masculinities, and patriarchy, sexual and gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, including HIV and AIDS. He has led other IDS programmes, such as Gender, Power and Sexuality (Sida funded), Engendering Men/EMERGE (DFID/UK Aid funded), and Masculinities and Transition (EBRD funded). He has co-edited volumes including Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities (2011, Zed Books) and IDS Bulletin 45.1, ‘Undressing Patriarchy: Men and Structural Violence’ (2014).
Jenny Edwards
Author Biography
Jenny Edwards is project manager for the Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She has over 15 years’ experience of project management, particularly on gender-related projects, including as project manager for the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) and the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment research programmes. Her publications include co-editing IDS Bulletin 51.2, ‘Collective Action for Accountability on Sexual Harassment: Global Perspectives’ (2020, with Mariz Tadros), and (with Andrea Cornwall), IDS Bulletin 46.4, ‘Beijing+20: Where Now for Gender Equality?’ (2015), IDS Bulletin 41.2, ‘Negotiating Empowerment’ (2010), and Feminisms, Empowerment and Development: Changing Women’s Lives (2014, Zed Books).
Tessa Lewin
Author Biography
Tessa Lewin is a Research Fellow in the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), where she teaches on the MA in Gender and Development and works on Rejuvenate, a ‘living archive’ on child rights and participation, and the Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice programme. She lectures on sexuality and gender, unruly politics and aesthetics, and creative and reflective practice. Her research interests include participatory and creative methods, (visual) activism, child/youth rights, gender, and sexuality.
Rosie McGee
Author Biography
Rosie McGee is an interdisciplinary social scientist trained in Development Studies and co-leader of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Power and Popular Politics research cluster. Her work focuses on accountability, transparency, and openness in governance; the use of technologies in governance; power relations and citizen engagement, including in contexts of fragility and violence; and the role of critical reflective learning in social and organisational change. She is co-leader of the 'Policy and Practice' workstrand for the Countering Backlash:
Reclaiming Gender Justice programme. Her recent publications include ‘The Governance Shock Doctrine: Civic Space in the Pandemic’ (Development Policy Review 41.S1: e12678).
Sohela Nazneen
Author Biography
Sohela Nazneen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), based in the Governance cluster, and leads IDS’ work on gender, politics, and governance. She leads the 'Voice' workstrand for the Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice programme. Sohela’s research focuses on gendered policy processes, feminist movements, women’s empowerment, and gender-based violence (GBV) in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. She has published widely on these issues including in World Development, Contemporary South Asia, and Development Policy Review. Sohela has worked as a consultant for UN Women, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Macarthur Foundation, and other agencies.
Chloe Skinner
Author Biography
Chloe Skinner is a Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics research cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), specialising in intersectional feminist and queer theory and activism, anti-gender backlash, coloniality, and resistance. Recent publications include ‘ “The Spatial Void Could be a Chance to Recreate”: Queer Visual Activism in the Fallout of the Beirut Blast’ (Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 2023), and ‘Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management’ (Signs, 2024 with Jerker Edström and Alan Greig). She has a forthcoming book due to be published in 2024 with Cambridge University Press entitled ‘Occupier and Occupied: Israel, Palestine and Masculinities across the Divide’.
This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 55.1: 'Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives'.