Welcome to the website of Sylvia Chant. Thank you for visiting!
Professor of Development Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where she is Director of the MSc in Urbanisation and Development. Her principal interests lie in comparative policy-relevant research, gender and development, including the ‘feminisation of poverty’, female employment and urban labour markets, rural-urban migration, housing, men and masculinities, and families and households (especially female-headed households). Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2011. In 2015 conferred as a member of the Academy of Social Sciences: a ‘world-leading figure in international social science, helping to stake out the field of gender and development’.
Please see four of my most recent books below.
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South Towards a Feminised Urban Future (2016)
- At June 14, 2016
- By sylvia_admin
- In Books, Latest books, Publications
0
Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy
Routledge: London. 312pp.
This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated.
Read More» The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty
Concepts, Research, Policy (2010)
- At July 09, 2013
- By sylvia_admin
- In Books, Latest books, Publications
- 0
Chant, Sylvia (editor)
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham/Northampton MA. 698pp.
Nominated for Geographical Perspectives on Women [GPOW] Award, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, 12-16 April 2011
In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage.