Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda
| Autor: | Margit van Wessel, Laurence Jassogne, Mariola Acosta, Edidah L. Ampaire, Peter H. Feindt, Severine van Bommel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Strategic Communication Sociology and Political Science Inequality media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies WASS Transformational potential 02 engineering and technology Strategische Communicatie Development Education Hybridity Political science 050602 political science & public administration Uganda Resizing media_common Food security business.industry 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Gender mainstreaming 0506 political science Norm domestication Transformational leadership Agriculture Political economy Norm (social) business |
| Zdroj: | Women's Studies International Forum, 74, 9-19 Women's Studies International Forum 74 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 0277-5395 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.010 |
| Popis: | While the international norm on gender mainstreaming, UN-backed since 1995, has been widely adopted in national policies, gender inequalities are rarely systematically addressed on the ground. To explain this limited effectiveness, this paper takes a discourse analytical perspective on gender policy and budgeting, with a focus on the translation of the international norm into domestic norms and policies. An in-depth, inductive analysis of 107 policy documents in Uganda examines how the gender mainstreaming norm has been translated at three administrative levels: national, district, sub-county. The analysis finds five processes that reduce the norm's transformational potential: neglecting gender discourse, gender inertia, shrinking gender norms, embracing discursive hybridity and minimizing budgets. Overall, gender mainstreaming largely stopped at the discursive level, and often paradoxically depoliticized gender. The findings explain why gender mainstreaming might be helpful but not sufficient for advancing gender equality and suggest additional focus on promising practices, women's rights movements and stronger monitoring. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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