Sylvia Chant (24 December 1958 – 18 December 2019) was a British academic who was professor of Development Geography at the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

and was co-director of the MSc Urbanisation and Development Programme in the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.

Background

She earned her BA at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

and her PhD at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

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 to 1988, before joining the LSE. She died after a battle with cancer in 2019.

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 also worked on resistance to

female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ...

. She is the editor of ''The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty : Concepts, Research, Policy'' (2010),

Awards

* Fellow,

Royal Society of Arts The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

(2011) * Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (2016) * Leverhulme major research fellowship (2003-2006) * Adlbertska Guest Professor of Sustainable Development,

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

(2013-2015)

Publications

* ''Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a Feminised Urban Future'' (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Routledge, 2016) * (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'' (in association with Nikki Craske) (Latin America Bureau, 2003) * ''Genero en Latinoamerica in Latin America'' (in association with Nikki Craske) (Publicaciones de la Casa Chata, 2007) * ''Mainstreaming Men in Gender and Development'' (with Matthew Gutmann) (Oxfam, 2000) * ''Three Generations, Two Genders, One World'' (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Zed, 1998) * ''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) * (ed.) ''Routledge Major Works on Gender, Poverty and Development'' (4 volumes) (with Gwendolyn Beetham (Routledge, 2015) * ''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) * ''Community leadership and self-help housing'' (Peter Ward and Sylvia Chant) (Pergamon 1987) * ''Gender, Urban Development and Housing'' (UNDP, 1996)

References

External links

Official page at LSE
1958 births 2019 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Academics of the London School of Economics British geographers Place of birth missing Women geographers British women non-fiction writers {{UK-academic-bio-stub