Erasmus University Rotterdam

prof.dr. (Wendy) W. Harcourt

prof.dr. (Wendy) W. Harcourt
Professor International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Academic Staff Unit
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Kortenaerkade 12, 's-Gravenhage
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+31 70 4260548
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harcourt@iss.nl

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Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University in The Hague.

Dr Wendy Harcourt joined the ISS in November 2011 after 23 years at the Society for International Development, Rome as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books and her monograph: 'Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development' published by Zed Books in 2009, received the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. She is series editor of both the Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change and the ISS-Routledge Series on Gender, Development and Sexuality, a member…

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University in The Hague.

Dr Wendy Harcourt joined the ISS in November 2011 after 23 years at the Society for International Development, Rome as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 10 books and her monograph: 'Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development' published by Zed Books in 2009, received the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. She is series editor of both the Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change and the ISS-Routledge Series on Gender, Development and Sexuality, a member of the International Governing Council of the Society for International Development as well as actively involved in gender and development journal boards and civil society networks.

She is Coordinator of the Research Group on Civic Innovation, Chair of the ISS Institute Council as well as Coordinator of the EU H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) WEGO (Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and Community).

      • W. Harcourt (2019). What a gender lens brings to development studies. In I.S.A. Baud, E. Basile, T. Kontinen, S. von Itter (Ed.), Building development studies for the new millennium (pp. -361-380). London: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (2019). White settler colonial scientific fabulations on otherwise narratives of care. In C./W. Bauhardt/ Harcourt (Ed.), Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives (pp. -36-54). London: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt & C. Bauhardt (2019). Introduction: Conversations on care in Feminist Political Economy and Ecology. In Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives (pp. -1-16). London: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt, S. Heumann & A. Asya (2017). Introduction. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Bodies in Resistance: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. 1-21). London: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt & J. Pitanguy (2017). Body politics, Human Rights and Public Policies in Brazil: In Conversation with Jacqueline Pitanguay. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Bodies in Resistance: Gender politics in the age of neoliberalism (Gender, development and social change) (pp. 275-295). London: Palgrave Macmilan
      • W. Harcourt (2017). Bodies in Resistance: Conversations on Gender, Body Politics and Authoritarian Neoliberalism. In C.B. Tansel (Ed.), States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order (Transforming Capitalism) (pp. 67-86). London: Rowman and Littlefield
      • W. Harcourt (2017). The Development Industry and the Co-optation of Body Politics. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Bodies in Resistance: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. 191-211). London: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (2017). Preface. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Bodies in Resistance: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (Gender, Development and social Change) (pp. v-vi). London: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (2017). ‘Glocal’ Networking for Gender Equality and Sustainable Livelihoods. In B. Bock & S. Shortall (Eds.), Gender and Rural Globalization: International Perspectives on Gender and Rural Development (pp. 272-287). Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Place. In J. Adamson, W.A. Gleason & D.N Pellow (Eds.), Keywords for Environmental Studies (Keywords) (pp. 161-163). New York: New York University Press
      • A. Escobar & W. Harcourt (2016). The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future - take two. In K.-K. Bhavnani, J. Foran, P.A. Kurian & D. Munshi (Eds.), Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development (pp. 278-294). London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt, R.A. Icaza Garza & V. Vargas (2016). Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist research. In K Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Eds.), Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (pp. 148-167). London: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Body Politics. In N. Naples, R.C. Hoogland, M. Wickramasinghe & W.C.A. Wong (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences) (pp. 1-3). London: Wiley-Blackwell
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Third World Women. In N.A. Naples (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (5 vols). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Sustainable Livelihoods. In N. Naples, R.C. Hoogland, M. Wickramasinghe & W.C.A. Wong (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. London: Wiley-Blackwell
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Imagining Feminist Futures. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development: Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice (pp. 615-623). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Introduction: Dilemmas, Dialogues, Debates. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development: Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice (pp. 1-12). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
      • P. Trejo-Mendez, P. Sánchez de la Blanca, L. Santamaría Buitrago, E.C. Sardoni, G. simula & W. Harcourt (2016). Resistance and Hope: youth responses to the economic crisis in Southern Europe. In K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Eds.), Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) (pp. 192-211). Abington, UK: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt, K. Biekart & P. Knorringa (2016). Conclusion: Moving Agendas Forward. In K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Eds.), Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 123) (pp. 251-266). Abington, UK: Routledge
      • K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (2016). Introduction: Giving Meaning to Civic Innovation. In K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Eds.), Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 123) (pp. 1-19). Abington, UK; New York, NY: Rouledge
      • W. Harcourt, S. Knox & T. Tabassi (2015). World-wise otherwise stories for our endtimes: conversations on queer ecologies. In W. Harcourt & I. Nelson (Eds.), Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy' (Gender, Development and Environment) (pp. 286-308). London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt (2015). The slips and slides of trying to live feminist political ecology. In W. Harcourt & I.L. Nelson (Eds.), Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the Green Economy (pp. 238-259). London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt & I.L. Nelson (2015). Introduction: are we ‘green’ yet? And the violence of asking such a question. In W. Harcourt & I.L. Nelson (Eds.), Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the Green Economy (pp. 1-26). London: Zed Books
      • R. Baksh & W. Harcourt (2015). Introduction: Rethinking Knowledge, Power, and Social Change. In R. Baksh & W. Harcourt (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements (Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations) (pp. 1-50). New York, NY: Oxford University Press
      • W. Harcourt (2015). ‘Conclusion: Body Politics and the Making and Unmaking of Gender and Development’. In Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin & Helene Guétat-Bernard (Eds.), Under Development: Gender (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. 306-316). London: Palgrave Macmilan
      • W. Harcourt, A.B. Wilson, A. Escobar & D. Rocheleau (2013). A Massey Muse. In D. Featherstone & J. Painter (Eds.), Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (pp. 158-177). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
      • W. Harcourt (2013). Reproductive and Sexual Politics. In J Krieger (Ed.), Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (2 vols). New York: Oxford University Press
      • W. Harcourt (2012). Prologue. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. xii-xiii). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt & J. Stremmelaar (2012). Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: an Introduction. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. 1-11). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (2012). Epilogue: Green Washing Warnings. In W. Harcourt (Ed.), Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained (Gender, Development and Social Change) (pp. 266-268). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt & L.F. Morrissey (2012). Critical Views of Development: Sustaining livelihoods in the face of global crises. In M. Cangiani (Ed.), Alternative Approaches to Development (Collana di antropologi, 26). Padova (Italy): CLEUP
      • W. Harcourt (2011). Care Economies and Collective Well-Being in Contemporary European Feminist Organizing. In A. Woodward, J.-M. Bonvin & M. Renom (Eds.), Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe: the Impact of Social Movements (Gender and Well-Being) (pp. 249-264). Farnham, UK: Ashgate
      • W. Harcourt (2011). Feminist Political Ecology. In N. Visvanathan, L. Duggan, N. Wiegersma & L. Nisonoff (Eds.), The Women, Gender and Development Reader: 2nd ed (pp. 43-46). London: Zed Books

      • W. Harcourt & C. Bauhardt (Ed.). (2019). Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives. London: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2017). Bodies in Resistance: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (Gender, Development and Social Change). London: Palgrave Macmillan
      • K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Ed.). (2016). Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 123). Abington, UK: Routledge
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2016). The Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Development Handbook: Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
      • R. Baksh & W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements (Oxford Handbooks in Politics and International Relations). New York, NY: Oxford University Press
      • W. Harcourt & I. Nelson (Ed.). (2015). Practising Feminist Political Ecologies: Moving Beyond the 'Green Economy'. London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2012). Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained (Gender, Development and Social Change). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2009). Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development. London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt & A. Escobar (Ed.). (2005). Women and the Politics of Place. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (1999). Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (1997). Power, Reproduction and Gender : the Intergenerational Transfer of Knowledge. London: Zed Books
      • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (1994). Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. London: Zed Books

      • W. Harcourt (2017). The politics of feminist knowledge transfer: gender training and gender expertise, edited by María Bustelo, Lucy Ferguson and Maxime Forest [Bespreking van het boek The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise]. International Journal of Feminist Politics, 19(3), 394-395.
      • W. Harcourt (2016). Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas. [Bespreking van het boek Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas]. Hispanic American Historical Review, 96(3), 603-605.
      • W. Harcourt (2012). Review Essay: Beyond `Smart Economics¿: The World Bank 2012 Report on Gender and Equality. [Bespreking van het boek World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development]. International Journal of Feminist Politics, 14(2), 307-312.
      • G. Frova & W. Harcourt (2011). Governance, Land and Development. [Bespreking van de boeken Gender and Green Governance:The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry & Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits? & UNDP Human Development Report 2010: 20th Anniversary Edition, The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development]. Development, 54(1), 114-119.

        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2011) Development, 54(4).
        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2011) Development, 54(3).
        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2011) Development, 54(2).
        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2011) Development, 54(1).

        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2012) Development Journal of SID, 55(2).
        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2012) Development Journal of SID, 55(1).

        • W. Harcourt (Ed.). (2015) Development Journal of SID, 48(3).
        • S. Heumann & W. Harcourt (Eds.). (2015) DevISSues, 17(1).
        • B. Radley, J.D. Parra Heredia, C. Embido Bejeno, W. Harcourt, C. Sathyamala, E. Smidt, T. Soukotta & Y. Zahda (Eds.). (2015) Development, 58(1).
        • W. Harcourt & T. Truong (Eds.). (2014) Gender, Technology and Development, 18(1).

      • W. Harcourt & I.L. Nelson (2012). Conversations on Bodies, Technologies and Ecologies: Reflections from the ISS-Hivos Colloquium `Deepening conversations on gender and the green economy¿. (Intern rapport). The Hague: ISS, Hivos
      • W. Harcourt (2011). The Impact of the Crisis on Women in West Europe. (Extern rapport, The Crisis’ Impact on Women’s Rights: Sub-Regional Perspectives, no 7). Toronto, etc.: Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

        • W. Harcourt (2012). Gender Matters to Whom: Keeping the Politics in Gender and Development. Keynote at: Feminism, Difference, and Beyond: 5th Annual Critical Voices in Swiss IR Conference: Geneva (2012, mei 10 - 2012, mei 11).
        • W. Harcourt (2011). The Future of Capitalism: a consideration of alternatives. Keynote address to the Conference in Honour of G.C. Harcourt: The Future of Capitalism: Cambridge (UK) (2011, juni 25 - 2011, juni 26).

        • B.E. Buscher, M. Arsel, L. Pellegrini & W. Harcourt (2012). Environmental Studies Colloquium series: 'Critical Engagements with the Green Economy'. A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November): .
        • W. Harcourt, M. Dassanou, A. Nelson & E. Vazquez (2011). Addressing Gender Asymmetries and the Role of Women Entrepreneurs. Society for International Development World Congress 2011: Our Common Challenge: a World Moving towards a Sustainable Future: Washington, DC (2011, juli 29 - 2011, juli 31).

        • W. Harcourt (2014). Alternatives (panel contribution to session 4). British Academy Conference 'After 2015: Development and its Alternatives': London (2014, september 10 - 2014, september 11).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). UN Women on Sustainable Development. Expert group meeting oranized by UN Women and the FAO on 'The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development': Rome (2014, februari 6).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Place. Keynote speech at the conference 'The European Economc Crisis and its Consequences for Women': Gothenberg, Sweden (2014, maart 20 - 2014, maart 21).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). Realising gender equality and women’s rights in a neoliberal era. Keynote speech at the Forum 'Realising Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Neoliberal Era', hosted by WO=MEN and KIT Gender: Amsterdam (2014, januari 16).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). Global body politics and discourses to end gender based violence in Nepal. Workshop on Intimate Partner Violence in Marginalised Settings: Re-theorising Agency for Global Public Health: London (2014, maart 24).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). Academic Panel 'Women's Movements Responses to New Global Political and Economic Dynamics'. 14th General EADI Conference on ‘Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequalities, Citizenship and the Middle Classes’: Bonn (2014, juni 23 - 2014, juni 26).
        • W. Harcourt & P. Trejo Mendez (2014). Women, Youth and the Economic Crisis in Southern Europe. Paper presented at the 14th General EADI Conference on 'Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes': Bonn (2014, juni 23 - 2014, juni 26).
        • W. Harcourt (2014). Critical feminist reflections on the development promise: 15 years on. Annual thematic conference 2014 of the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD): "Reflections on MDG 1 'Decent Work for All’: Where Do We Stand?": Kassel, Germany (2014, juli 3 - 2014, juli 4).
        • W. Harcourt (2013). ‘Gender, environment and place-based globalism’. Keynote speech at the Conference in honour of Parto Teherani-Krönner, Humboldt University,: Berlin, Germany (2013, januari 25).
        • W. Harcourt (2013). Feminist Political Ecologies: Glocal struggles for wellbeing and livelihoods (PhD workshop: 'Transnational feminist research: global connections and rural realities from a critical perspective'). WASS Seminar and Phd master class (Re -) Engaging with Agrarian Transformation: the Rural, a Battlefield of New Social Hierarchies?: Wageningen, The Netherlands (2013, december 4 - 2013, december 6).
        • W. Harcourt (2012). "Thematic Session. Feminist Futures". Paper presented at the meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Denver, CO (2012, augustus 17 - 2012, augustus 20).
        • W. Harcourt (2012). ‘New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context’, keynote address. UN-DCF Vienna Policy Dialogue on ‘Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment: The role of development cooperation’, UN Women and UN DESA: Vienna, Austria (2012, december 13 - 2012, december 14). [go to publisher's site]

      • W. Harcourt (2015, oktober 30). Global networking for gender equality and sustainable livelihoods. University of Passau, Symposium on Institutions and Sustainable Development through an Interdisciplinary Lens.
      • W. Harcourt (2015, augustus 12). Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: ­ In search of Economic Alternatives. University of Melbourne, Seminar at the Faculty of Politics and Social Studies.
      • W. Harcourt (2015, juni 8). Development as a violation of body environment and community. University of Helsinki, Conference on Post Development as a Paradigm.
      • W. Harcourt (2013, april 3). Challenging the gender and development narrative. San Francisco, ISA panel gender and global governance.
      • W. Harcourt (2013, april 18). ‘Gender and sustainable livelihoods: linking gendered experiences of environment, community and self’. Wageningen, The Netherlands, Keynote speech at the Farewell Seminar in honour of Professor Anke Niehof, Wageningen University,.
      • W. Harcourt (2013, juni 25). Global body politics: contestations in gender and development. Vienna, Guest Lecture, Department Development Studies, University of Vienna, Austria,.
      • W. Harcourt: ‘Body Politics in Development’. University of Bonn (Germany), September 2012, Seminar on Gender and Development Center for Development Research (ZEF).

  • 2101 The Making of Development

    Title
    2101 The Making of Development
    Year
    2018

    2102 The Making of Development (MIG)

    Title
    2102 The Making of Development (MIG)
    Year
    2018

    2201 Encounters in Development Studies

    Title
    2201 Encounters in Development Studies
    Year
    2018

    3105 Research Paper Preparation

    Title
    3105 Research Paper Preparation
    Year
    2018

    4154 Critical Social Policy

    Title
    4154 Critical Social Policy
    Year
    2018

    4226Feminist Perspectives, Gender & Devt

    Title
    4226Feminist Perspectives, Gender & Devt
    Year
    2018

    4229 Global Political Ecology

    Title
    4229 Global Political Ecology
    Year
    2018

    4335 Politics of Agrarian Transformation

    Title
    4335 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
    Year
    2018

    4338 Gender and Sexuality as 'Lenses'

    Title
    4338 Gender and Sexuality as 'Lenses'
    Year
    2018

    5401 Research Paper

    Title
    5401 Research Paper
    Year
    2018

    Feminist Theories and Strategies for Dev

    Title
    Feminist Theories and Strategies for Dev
    Year
    2018

    Major SPD

    Title
    Major SPD
    Year
    2018

    General Information

    Title
    General Information
    Year
    2018

    Gender Equality in Global Arena

    Title
    Gender Equality in Global Arena
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (Level 300)

  • Professor

    University
    Erasmus University Rotterdam
    School
    International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
    Department
    Academic Staff Unit
    Country
    Nederland
    Telephone
    +31 70 4260548

  • Society for International Development

    Role
    Member of International Governing Council
    Start date approval
    Jan/2017

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Postbus 29776 2502 LT 's-Gravenhage