Local Meets Global: Engaging with International Development Research, Policy and Practice around Gender and Social Transformation

地方与全球相遇：参与围绕性别和社会转型的国际发展研究、政策和实践

• 批准号: ES/Y010353/1
• 负责人: Fanny Froehlich
• 金额: $ 14.86万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY010353%2F1
• 关键词: Local; Meets; Global; Engaging; International

International development, focused on gender, sets out to tackle unequal structures between and among women and men and thus works towards the long-standing feminist claim for equality, aimed at building an equal society. Gender and development (GAD) programmes, and policies, have moved from gender-neutral, to gender sensitive and, most recently, to gender-transformative approaches (Hochfield and Bassadien 2007; Espinosa 2013). The latter has the potential to drive and support changes that can tackle unequal structures, including access to education, economic possibilities, political participation and gender-based violence as a phenomenon and outcome of inequality (Cornwall and Rivas 2015). While tackling unequal structures with a focus on gender equality and women's empowerment has been a defined focus of international development work since the 1980s and forms a key component of current international and national development agendas such as Sustainable Development Goal 5, as a global society, we have not yet resolved gender-based discrimination (OECD 2023).My PhD thesis argues that this failure to eradicate gender inequality globally is rooted in the limitations, or a complete absence, of incorporating an ethics and politics of engagement within mainstream international development institutions based on co-production of knowledge around gender and social transformation in line with a postcolonial feminist critique (Mama, 2004).I examine in my doctoral research the implementation of a specific international Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) programme in selected communities in Ghana, West Africa. I argue for the necessity to adopt a transformative transnational feminist lens in development research, policy and practice informed by scholarly work closely aligned to an activist realm around feminist 'knowledge communities' (Assiter 1996; Nnaemeka 1998; Yuval-Davis 2010; Radcliffe 2015). This lens necessitates that socio-cultural values at community level such as respect and harmony receive equal weight as values expressed and enacted as part of an international GAD programme, informed by a global right-based approach. Such reciprocal inspection of values transforms our scholarly and policy understanding as it argues that we need to apply the same critical lens of transformative gender thinking to culture and rights of stakeholders from the Global North and the Global South. This shifts the focus away from a 'traditional' (sic!) focus of international development on harmful traditions in poverty-stricken communities in the Global South and asks questions about the structural violence that mainstream international development continues to inflict on post-colonial spaces including the work of local women's organisations.The Fellowship will allow me to strengthen the impact of my doctoral research through publishing findings in peer-reviewed academic journals. To maximise this impact, I set out to disseminate research findings in an academic, policy and practice sphere within and across the Global South and Global North. I aim to carry out further limited research on the role of feminist development practitioners which, I argue in my PhD, is central to the much-needed restructuring to the ethics and politics of collaboration.The School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol is the ideal host organisation for my fellowship through the Politics and International Studies Pathway. My primary mentor, Dr Peace A. Medie, brings substantial expertise to the project on the nexus of Gender and Politics with a focus on sub- Saharan Africa and global knowledge production. My secondary mentor Prof Mhairi Gibson has successfully mentored post-doctoral students and adds a focus on critically studying socio-cultural norms with potentially 'harmful' effects on women and girls. At wider university-level, my fellowship can inform current initiatives on Decolonising the Curriculum.

以性别为重点的国际发展旨在应对男女之间不平等的结构，因此致力于建立平等社会的长期女权主义主张。性别与发展（GAD）计划以及政策已从性别中立转变为对性别敏感的，以及最近的性别转变方法（Hochfield and Bassadien 2007； Espinosa 2013）。后者有可能推动和支持可以解决不平等结构的变化，包括获得教育，经济可能性，政治参与和基于性别的暴力作为不平等现象和结果（Cornwall and Rivas 2015）。尽管以自1980年代以来，以性别平等和赋予妇女的赋权来应对不平等的结构，这是国际发展工作的明确重点，并且构成了当前国际和国家发展议程（例如可持续发展目标5）的关键组成部分，作为一个全球社会，我们尚未解决基于性别的歧视（OECD 2023）。完全缺席的是，基于对性别和社会转变的知识的共同生产，与后殖民女权主义的批评相一致，将互动的道德和政治纳入主流国际发展机构中（妈妈，2004年）。我在我的博士研究中研究了特定的国际非政府组织（INGO）在特定的国际非政府组织（INGO）计划中的实施。我认为有必要在发展研究，政策和实践中采用变革性的跨国女权主义镜头，这些镜头由学术工作与围绕女权主义者“知识社区”紧密一致的学术工作所告知（Assiter 1996; Nnaemeka 1996; Yuval-Davis 1998; Yuval-Davis 2010; Radcliffe 2015; Radcliffe 2015; Yuval-Davis 1998;该镜头必须使社区层面的社会文化价值观（例如尊重和和谐）获得同等的权重，因为价值观作为国际GAD计划的一部分表达和制定，并由全球基于全球的权利方法所告知。对价值观的这种相互检查会改变我们的学术和政策理解，因为它认为我们需要将相同的变革性别思维的关键视角应用于来自全球北方和全球南方的利益相关者的文化和权利。这将重点从国际发展的“传统”（原文如此！）的重点转移到了全球南部贫困社区的有害传统上，并询问有关主流国际发展的结构性暴力的问题，它继续对后殖民空间造成后殖民空间的影响，包括当地妇女的工作，包括我的研究员，可以通过我的博士学位来促进我的研究。为了最大程度地发挥这种影响，我着手在全球南部和全球北部的学术，政策和实践领域中传播研究结果。我的目标是对女权主义发展从业人员的作用进行进一步的有限研究，我在博士学位上认为，这对于急需的协作伦理和政治重组至关重要。布里斯托尔大学的社会学，政治和国际研究学院（SPAIS）是我的伙伴政治和国际研究的理想主持人组织。我的主要导师和平A. Medie博士为性别和政治联系的项目带来了丰富的专业知识，重点是撒哈拉以下非洲和全球知识生产。我的次要导师Mhairi Gibson教授成功地指导了博士后学生，并增加了对社会文化规范的批判性研究，对妇女和女童有潜在的“有害”影响。在更广泛的大学级别，我的奖学金可以告知目前关于解放课程的举措。