Sylvia Chant
| Sylvia Chant | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Human Geography |
| Alma mater |
King's College, Cambridge University College London |
Sylvia Chant (born 1960) is a professor of Developmental Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science[1][2] and is the Programme Director of the Urbanisation and Development Programme at the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment [3]
Background
She earned her BA at King's College, Cambridge and her PhD at University College London in 1984 (Las Olvidadas: a study of women, housing and family structure in Queretaro, Mexico). Chant was a lecturer in Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool from 1987-1988, before joining the LSE.
Contributions
Gender and development research, particularly the 'feminisation of poverty', livelihoods and employment in urban areas. Working in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines and The Gambia. In the Gambia she has most recently been working on resistance to female genital mutilation.[4]
She is the editor of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty : Concepts, Research, Policy (2010),[5]
Awards
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (2011)
- Leverhulme major research fellowship (2003-2006)
- Adlbertska Guest Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Gothenburg (2013-2015)
Publications
- (ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (Elgar, 2010).
- Geographies of Development in the 21st Century (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Elgar, 2009)
- Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Elgar, 2007)
- Gender in Latin America (with Nikki Craske) (Latin America Bureau, 2003)
- Mainstreaming Men in Gender and Development (with Matthew Gutmann) (Oxfam, 2000)
- Three Generations, Two Genders, One World (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Zed, 1998)
- (ed.) Women-headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World (Macmillan, 1997, reprinted 1999)
- Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Pluto, 1995)
- (ed.) Gender and Migration in Developing COuntries (Bellhaven, 1992)
- Women and Survival in Mexican Cities (Manchester University Press, 1991)
- Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas (with Lynne Brydon) (Elgar, 1989, reprinted 1993)
- (ed.) Community leadership and self-help housing (Peter Ward and Sylvia Chant) (Pergamon 1987)