Amanda Gilbertson

Is India's Right to Education Act a Rightful Share? Distributive Politics, Education and the Media

Amanda Gilbertson, Ben Arnold

Journal article  |  2022  |  PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

India’s Right to Education Act contains a provision requiring private schools to educate underprivileged children without charging..

Decolonising the Study Tour: An Ethnography of a Student Internship with a New Delhi NGO

Amanda Gilbertson, Naomi Parris-Piper, Nicole Robertson

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

Although intended to improve students’ intercultural competence and global-mindedness, study tours can reinforce assumptions and a..

The changed and the unchanged: Peer learning for gender and development in Delhi

Amanda Gilbertson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography

Peer education has become a popular strategy for promoting gender equality in recent years in response to calls for more participa..

A Majoritarian View of ‘Gender Justice’ in Contemporary India: Examining Media Coverage of ‘Triple Talaq’ and ‘Love Jihad’

A Piedalue, A Gilbertson, M Raturi

Journal article  |  2021  |  South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

This paper explores media coverage of instant ‘triple talaq’—a form of divorce practised by some Indian Muslims—and ‘love jihad’—a..

Access versus integration: the benevolent undermining of an Indian desegregation policy

J Dey, A Gilbertson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education

Efforts to desegregate schools have consistently been undermined by privileged parents finding ways to avoid undesirable schools. ..

Is gender-based violence a social norm? Rethinking power in a popular development intervention

Amy Piedalue, Amanda Gilbertson, Kalissa Alexeyeff, Elise Klein

Journal article  |  2020  |  Feminist Review

Changing social norms has become the preferred approach in global efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). In this article,..

Revisiting the epistemic terrains of gender, sex, and empowerment through four sites of engagement in India: Introducing a conversation

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Richa Nagar, Amanda Gilbertson, Ahonaa Roy, Annie McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography

Knowledges that claim to end oppression and marginalization frequently end up feeding the same hierarchies that produce those oppr..

Of Mindsets and Men: Tackling Masculinity, Patriarchy, and Privilege in Delhi

Amanda Gilbertson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Men and Masculinities

As efforts to engage men and boys in gender justice work have proliferated across the globe, so too has evidence of the potential ..

Outsourcing Patriarchy To and Within India: Intersectional and Decolonial Gender Politics Across Scales

A Gilbertson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Antipode

Young caste-class privileged gender justice workers in Delhi navigate several relations of power—with Euro-American feminisms, and..

Reporting of Violence against Women in Indian Newspapers

Amanda Gilbertson, Niharika Pandit

Journal article  |  2019  |  Economic and Political Weekly

The media shapes public understanding of violence against women and girls, but until now there has been no systematic review of re..