Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don't Influence Peacemaking
| Autor: | Tom Paskhalis, Denisa Kostovicova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Transitional justice media_common.quotation_subject HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Gender justice Gender studies Space (commercial competition) Deliberation Speech patterns Representation (politics) Negotiation Political Science and International Relations Peacemaking JZ International relations Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Studies Quarterly. 65:263-276 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2478 0020-8833 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/isq/sqab003 |
| Popis: | Scholars have pinpointed that women's underrepresentation in peacemaking results in gendered outcomes that do not address women's needs and interests. Despite recent increased representation at the negotiating table, women still have a limited influence on peacemaking outcomes. We propose that differences in female and male speeches reflected in the gendered patterns in discourse during peacemaking explain how women's influence is curtailed. We examine women's speaking behavior in transitional justice debates in the post-conflict Balkans. Applying multimethod quantitative text analysis to over half a million words in multiple languages, we analyze structural and thematic speech patterns. We find that men's domination of turn-taking and the absence of topics reflecting women's needs and interests lead to a gendered outcome. The sequences of men talking after men are longer than those of women talking after women, which restricts women's deliberative space and opportunities to develop and sustain arguments that reflect their concerns. We find no evidence that women's limited influence is driven by lower deliberative quality of their speeches. This study of gendered dynamics at the microlevel of discourse identifies a novel dimension of male domination during peacemaking. |
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