Biography
**Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University in The Hague. ** She has published widely in critical development studies and feminst theory as well as feminist political ecology and has engaged in different gender and development networks over the years, including as Chair of Network Women in Development Europe and as Coordinator of the EU funded Innovative Training Network Wellbeing Ecology Gender and cOmmunity. Professor 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 12 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. Her latest open access books are Contours of Feminist Political Ecologies 2023
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4
and Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections 2022
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3.
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Work
- Agustina Solera, Wendy Harcourt & Khayaat Fakier (2024) - Caring for Earth: decoloniality and feminisms in dialogue
- MĆ³nica Grau Sarabia & Wendy Harcourt (2024) - Exploring relational agency in feminist transnational encounters
- Wendy Harcourt (2023) - The politics of knowledge: Feminist strategies for transformation - Dialogues in Human Geography, 13 (2), 296-300 - doi: 10.1177/20438206221144820 - [link]
- Wendy Harcourt (2023) - Conversations with GC Harcourt on Social Justice in the Face of Economic and Ecological Uncertainty - Economic and Labour Relations Review, 34 (1), 26-34 - doi: 10.1017/elr.2022.14 - [link]
- Wendy Harcourt, Ana Agostino, Rebecca Elmhirst, Marlene GĆ³mez & Panagiota Kotsila (2023) - Contours of Feminist Political Ecology - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4
- Mila Fenner & Wendy Harcourt (2023) - Debating Population in and Beyond Feminist Political Ecology - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_10 - [link]
- Ana Agostino, Rebecca Elmhirst, Marlene GĆ³mez, Wendy Harcourt & Panagiota Kotsila (2023) - Sketching out the Contours - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_1
- Wendy Harcourt (2023) - The Ethics and Politics of Care: Reshaping Economic Thinking and Practice - Review of Political Economy - doi: 10.1080/09538259.2023.2241395 - [link]
- Wendy Harcourt (2022) - Reflections on the Violence of Development - Development (Basingstoke), 65 (2-4), 116-119 - doi: 10.1057/s41301-022-00344-1 - [link]
- Wendy Harcourt & Ximena ArgĆ¼ello Calle (2022) - Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_5
- Agustina Solera, RV Rolando Vazquez, Khayaat Fakier, Wendy Harcourt & Rosalba Icaza Garza (2022) - Prince Claus Chair Postdoctoral Seminar Series. Building bridges with Latin American critical thought and experience (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Agustina Solera, Wendy Harcourt & Khayaat Fakier (2022) - WEGO Retreat on Next Steps + Proposal Writing for WEGO+ (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Agustina Solera, Wendy Harcourt & Khayaat Fakier (2022) - Workshop and roundtable: Workshop Wangari-Maathai Women, peace and environment - Pangea/ WEGO/A Sud (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Agustina Solera, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Wendy Harcourt, Khayaat Fakier & RV Rolando Vazquez (2022) - Prince Claus Chair Postdoctoral Seminar Series. Building bridges with Latin American critical thought and experience (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Wendy Harcourt (2015) - Learning from changing ālife worldsā: doing research on gender, environment, community, self (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Wendy Harcourt (2015) - Global networking for gender equality and sustainable livelihoods (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Wendy Harcourt (2015) - Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: Ā In search of Economic Alternatives (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Wendy Harcourt (2015) - Development as a violation of body environment and community (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Wendy Harcourt (2015) - Reclaiming Feminist Political Ecology in the Most Unlikely Places (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Benjamin Radley, Juan David Parra Heredia, C Embido Bejeno, Wendy Harcourt, Christina Sathyamala, E Smidt, T Soukotta & Yazid Zahda (2015) - Development (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review āŗ Academic
Cost Action
- Start date approval
- January 2023
- End date approval
- January 2026
- Place
- BRUSSELS
- Description
- Dutch Representative of the action
2101 The Making of Development
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-2101-24-25
Major AFES
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-AFES-24-25
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-24-25
General Information
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-24-25
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-24-25
4150 Political Economy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4150-24-25
4338 Gender and Sexuality as 'Lenses'
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4338-24-25
4243 Degrowth
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4243-24-25
4354 Transitions for Social Justice Lab
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4354-24-25
4357 Global Political Ecology
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4357-24-25
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-24-25