Department of Politics
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Bakker
Isabella C.
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Isabella C. Bakker
department-of-politics
Professor
FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor
York Research Chair & Trudeau Fellow
Office: Ross Building, S661
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 88842
Email: icbakker@yorku.ca
Degrees
PhD, New School for Social ResearchBA, Carleton
Research Interests
Globalization
, Gender and fiscal policy/gender budgeting; development economics; globalization and human security; governance and social reproduction feminist international political economy; public finance; measuring progress on human rights and gender equality commitments; financing for development; social policy and gender orders.
Books
Publication
Year
Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective (with Brigitte Young and Diane Elson), Routledge, http://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Financial-Governance-Perspective-Routledge/dp/0415676703
2011
Where are the Women? Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Public Policy, (with Janine Brodie), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives September 2008.
2008
Beyond States and Market: The Challenges of Social Reproduction (with Rachel Silvey) eds. (Routledge 2008)
2008
Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy. Co-editor/contributor with Stephen Gill. (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; North America 2004).
2003
Isabella Bakker (editor/contributor) Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
1996
Isabella Bakker (editor/contributor) The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy. (London: Zed Press/The North-South Institute, 1994)
1994
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
“Towards Gendered Global Economic Governance,” in Stephen Gill ed. Critical Perspectives o the Crisis of Global Governance, (Palgrave Macmillan).
2015
“Social Reproduction, Fiscal Space and the Remaking of the Real Constitution” in Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler eds., New Constitutionalism and World Order, (Cambridge University Press).
2014
“Show Us the Money”: Tracking Gender Equality Commitments and the ‘Constraints’ of Canadian Budgeting” in Alexandra Dobrowolsky ed. Women and Public Policy in Canada: Neoliberalism and After?, Oxford University Press, 2009. 226-243.
2009
‘Global Political Economy & Social Reproduction’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 3-16
2003
‘Hybridizing a New Intellectual Space’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Beyond-States-and-Markets-isbn9780415775861 In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) xxiii-xiv
2003
‘Neo-Liberal Governance and the Reprivatization of Social Reproduction: Social Provisioning and Shifting Gender Orders’ In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 66-82
2003
‘Ontology, Method & Hypotheses’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 17-41
2003
‘Engendering the Economics of Globalisation: Sites and Processes,’ in Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor and Ellen Houston, eds, Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory. (M.E.Sharpe, 2001) 219-237
2001
‘Development Policies,’ in Meg Lewis and Janice Petersen, eds., The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics. (Edward Elgar, 2000) 83-95
2000
Monographs
Publication
Year
Gender and Global Economic Governance: Ideas, Institutions and Power Potentials, Background Paper for UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women, Fall 2014, (58 pages) (refereed).
2014
Evaluation of the UN System-Wide Action Plan on Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security. (with Tony Beck) Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI), July 2010, 137 pages (refereed). See United Nations, Report of the Secretary General, Women, Peace and Security, New York, S/2010/498, findings of evaluation are summarized from page 25 on).
2010
National Level Indicators for Tracking Progress Towards Gender Equality: Mainstreaming Gender into the Paris Declaration Monitoring and Evaluation Processes. (with Tony Beck) . EU/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace, New York, March 2009.
2009
International Labor Organisation/International Training Centre Training Manuals (with Tony Beck) Foundation Module 1: Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness, and Module 2: Tools for Mainstreaming Gender in Aid Effectiveness, ILO/ITC Turin, 2008.
2008
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Solomon R Benatar, Stephen Gill and Isabella C Bakker ‘Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis’ with Solomon Benatar and Stephen Gill, American Journal of Public Health, Volume 101: 4 (2011). http://ajph.aphapublications.org/current.dtl. Online February 2011.
2011
“Making Progress in Global Health: The Need for New Paradigms” with Solomon Benatar and Stephen Gill, International Affairs, March 2009.
2009
“Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy,” New Political Economy, vol. 12, no.4, December 2007.
2007
‘Who Built the Pyramids? Engendering the New International Economic and Financial Architecture’ in Femina Politica: Zeitscrift fur feministische Politik-Wissenschaft, Special Issue: Engendering der Makrookonomie, 11. Jg. Heft 1/2002. 38-48
2002
Policy Papers
Publication
Year
Gender Budget Initiatives: Why They Matter in Canada, Ottawa: Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives. Sept. 2005. online at http://www.poliyaltenratives.ca.
2005
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Canada’s Social Policy Regime and Women: An Assessment of the Last Decade (with Janine Brodie). Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, February 2007, published online at http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/pubspr/0662450870/200703_9780662450870_1_e.html.
2007
Financing for Gender Equality. Background Paper. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, September 2007. Online at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/financing_gender_equality/egm_financing_gender_equality.htm
2007
United Nations Human Development Report 2002, ‘Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: The Example of Gender Responsive Budgeting’ (New York: UNDP 2001). 35pp.
2002
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/POLS4296 3.0 | A | Gender and Participatory Budgeting | ONLN |
Degrees
PhD, New School for Social ResearchBA, Carleton
Research Interests
Globalization
, Gender and fiscal policy/gender budgeting; development economics; globalization and human security; governance and social reproduction feminist international political economy; public finance; measuring progress on human rights and gender equality commitments; financing for development; social policy and gender orders.
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
“Towards Gendered Global Economic Governance,” in Stephen Gill ed. Critical Perspectives o the Crisis of Global Governance, (Palgrave Macmillan).
2015
“Social Reproduction, Fiscal Space and the Remaking of the Real Constitution” in Stephen Gill and Claire Cutler eds., New Constitutionalism and World Order, (Cambridge University Press).
2014
“Show Us the Money”: Tracking Gender Equality Commitments and the ‘Constraints’ of Canadian Budgeting” in Alexandra Dobrowolsky ed. Women and Public Policy in Canada: Neoliberalism and After?, Oxford University Press, 2009. 226-243.
2009
‘Global Political Economy & Social Reproduction’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 3-16
2003
‘Hybridizing a New Intellectual Space’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Beyond-States-and-Markets-isbn9780415775861 In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) xxiii-xiv
2003
‘Neo-Liberal Governance and the Reprivatization of Social Reproduction: Social Provisioning and Shifting Gender Orders’ In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 66-82
2003
‘Ontology, Method & Hypotheses’ Co-authored with Stephen Gill. In Bakker and Gill editors Power, Production and Social Reproduction (London and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave 2003) 17-41
2003
‘Engendering the Economics of Globalisation: Sites and Processes,’ in Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor and Ellen Houston, eds, Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory. (M.E.Sharpe, 2001) 219-237
2001
‘Development Policies,’ in Meg Lewis and Janice Petersen, eds., The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics. (Edward Elgar, 2000) 83-95
2000
Books
Publication
Year
Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective (with Brigitte Young and Diane Elson), Routledge, http://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Financial-Governance-Perspective-Routledge/dp/0415676703
2011
Where are the Women? Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Public Policy, (with Janine Brodie), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives September 2008.
2008
Beyond States and Market: The Challenges of Social Reproduction (with Rachel Silvey) eds. (Routledge 2008)
2008
Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy. Co-editor/contributor with Stephen Gill. (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; North America 2004).
2003
Isabella Bakker (editor/contributor) Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
1996
Isabella Bakker (editor/contributor) The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy. (London: Zed Press/The North-South Institute, 1994)
1994
Monographs
Publication
Year
Gender and Global Economic Governance: Ideas, Institutions and Power Potentials, Background Paper for UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women, Fall 2014, (58 pages) (refereed).
2014
Evaluation of the UN System-Wide Action Plan on Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security. (with Tony Beck) Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI), July 2010, 137 pages (refereed). See United Nations, Report of the Secretary General, Women, Peace and Security, New York, S/2010/498, findings of evaluation are summarized from page 25 on).
2010
National Level Indicators for Tracking Progress Towards Gender Equality: Mainstreaming Gender into the Paris Declaration Monitoring and Evaluation Processes. (with Tony Beck) . EU/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace, New York, March 2009.
2009
International Labor Organisation/International Training Centre Training Manuals (with Tony Beck) Foundation Module 1: Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness, and Module 2: Tools for Mainstreaming Gender in Aid Effectiveness, ILO/ITC Turin, 2008.
2008
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Solomon R Benatar, Stephen Gill and Isabella C Bakker ‘Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis’ with Solomon Benatar and Stephen Gill, American Journal of Public Health, Volume 101: 4 (2011). http://ajph.aphapublications.org/current.dtl. Online February 2011.
2011
“Making Progress in Global Health: The Need for New Paradigms” with Solomon Benatar and Stephen Gill, International Affairs, March 2009.
2009
“Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy,” New Political Economy, vol. 12, no.4, December 2007.
2007
‘Who Built the Pyramids? Engendering the New International Economic and Financial Architecture’ in Femina Politica: Zeitscrift fur feministische Politik-Wissenschaft, Special Issue: Engendering der Makrookonomie, 11. Jg. Heft 1/2002. 38-48
2002
Policy Papers
Publication
Year
Gender Budget Initiatives: Why They Matter in Canada, Ottawa: Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives. Sept. 2005. online at http://www.poliyaltenratives.ca.
2005
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Canada’s Social Policy Regime and Women: An Assessment of the Last Decade (with Janine Brodie). Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, February 2007, published online at http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/pubspr/0662450870/200703_9780662450870_1_e.html.
2007
Financing for Gender Equality. Background Paper. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, September 2007. Online at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/financing_gender_equality/egm_financing_gender_equality.htm
2007
United Nations Human Development Report 2002, ‘Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: The Example of Gender Responsive Budgeting’ (New York: UNDP 2001). 35pp.
2002
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | AP/POLS4296 3.0 | A | Gender and Participatory Budgeting | ONLN |
