This article reflects on my contribution as an urban feminist scholar-gender expert practitioner to Gender and Development (GAD) theory and practice in cities of the South in relation to my changing positionality within specific institutional contexts. My journey started in the 1980s with urban gender planning, conceptualised in the Development Planning Unit, a United Kingdom-based urban planning unit. After a ‘diversionary’ decade in the World Bank, experiencing GAD non-alignment between individual and institutional positionality, my journey continued as a Ford Foundation external advisor, developing an operational approach to urban gender transformation. As I moved across the feminist scholar-gender expert divide, contextualised within changing GAD debates, I highlight and critique differences and similarities between ‘political’ and ‘technical/instrumental’ knowledge production of gender practice, and conclude that it is the cyclical synergies between them has produced the significant changes in GAD theory and practice.

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从性别规划到性别转变：全球南方城市的定位、理论和实践

本文反映了我作为城市女权主义学者-性别专家实践者对南方城市性别与发展 (GAD) 理论和实践的贡献，以及我在特定制度背景下不断变化的立场。我的旅程始于 1980 年代的城市性别规划，在总部位于英国的城市规划单位 Development Planning Unit 进行概念化。在世界银行“转移注意力”的十年后，经历了个人和机构地位之间的 GAD 不一致，我继续作为福特基金会的外部顾问，制定城市性别转型的操作方法。当我跨越女权主义学者与性别专家的鸿沟时，在不断变化的 GAD 辩论中，