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Refugee identity and integration in Germany during the European “migration crisis”: Why local community support matters, and why policy gets it wrong (2022)
Journal Article
Lienen, C., & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (in press). Refugee identity and integration in Germany during the European “migration crisis”: Why local community support matters, and why policy gets it wrong. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2098445

Although the 2015 “refugee crisis” dominated Europe’s policy-making agenda, little research was actually conducted with refugees. Using focus groups, interviews and photovoice, this study explores the identity and integration processes of 20 refugees... Read More about Refugee identity and integration in Germany during the European “migration crisis”: Why local community support matters, and why policy gets it wrong.

Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio (2022)
Book Chapter
LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2022). Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio. In New mediums, better messages? How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858751.001.0001

Radio has long been used as a tool for development – particularly when promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment – but far more attention has been paid to local community radio than to radio with a global reach. This chapter seeks to understa... Read More about Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio.

Narratives (2022)
Book Chapter
LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2022). Narratives. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible (1-7). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_182-1

While many definitions of narrative exist, at its most basic, a narrative is a temporal sequence of events with a plot connecting those events. When we express our identity -- who we are -- we often do so in narrative form, telling a life story that... Read More about Narratives.

Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women's equality and empowerment (2020)
Journal Article
LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2020). Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women's equality and empowerment. World Development, 132, Article 104929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104929

Women's equality and empowerment are international development priorities, but are difficult to achieve. Much gender and development literature blames entrenched “traditional” gender roles and norms, using them to explain slow progress towards gender... Read More about Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women's equality and empowerment.

How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship (2016)
Book Chapter
Ramarajan, L., & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2016). How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship. In L. M. Roberts, L. P. Wooten, & M. N. Davidson (Eds.), Positive Organizing in a Global Society: Understanding and Engaging Differences for Capacity Building and Inclusion (37-42). New York, NY: Routledge

In this book chapter, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, PhD candidate at LSE, illustrate that when people resist discrimination by embracing their marginalized identities, it can spur them t... Read More about How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship.

It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe (2015)
Journal Article
LeRoux-Rutledge, E., Guerlain, M. A., Andersen, L. B., Madanhire, C., Mutsikiwa, A., Nyamukapa, C., …Campbell, C. (2015). It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe. AIDS Care, 27(11), 1367-1374. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592

This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercis... Read More about It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe.

“Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries (2012)
Book Chapter
Godfrey, A., Burton, M., & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2012). “Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries. In I. Volkmer (Ed.), The Handbook of Global Media Research (504-520). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118255278.ch29

Summary This chapter contains sections titled: The Case of Africa Talks Climate Climate Change in Africa The Role of the Media Comparative Research: Challenges and Opportunities Why Compare? What to Compare? How to Compare? Common Framin... Read More about “Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries.