Gender in global trade: Transforming or reproducing trade orthodoxy?
Gender in global trade: Transforming or reproducing trade orthodoxy?
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全球贸易中的性别：改变或复制贸易正统观念？
DOI：
10.1080/09692290.2021.1915846
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Silke Trommer
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作者：
E. Hannah;A. Roberts;Silke Trommer
摘要 与发展、和平与安全以及公司治理等领域相比，性别平等问题最近才开始进入贸易政策制定。近年来，旨在利用贸易促进性别平等并解决贸易对妇女和其他弱势群体的不利影响的举措层出不穷。在本文中，我们评估新的性别和贸易议程是否标志着全球贸易治理的变革时刻，还是复制了贸易正统观念，从而使现有的不平等现象长期存在。我们以重要的贸易和女权主义 IPE 文献为基础，开发了一个分析框架，以检验性别和贸易举措是否复制或破坏了正统观念。其四个关键标志是：市场理性、技术统治、合法化和抽象。我们发现，虽然我们研究的大多数性别和贸易举措都复制并进一步巩固了贸易正统观念，但仍有一些机会可以导致更具变革性的贸易政治。未来的研究应该审视产生这些开放的政策过程，并调查它们是否以及如何能够转化为政策工具，从而真正改变世界贸易方式。
Abstract In contrast to fields such as development, peace and security, and corporate governance, questions of gender equality have only recently begun entering into trade policymaking. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of initiatives aimed at leveraging trade for gender equality and addressing the adverse impacts of trade on women and other vulnerable populations. In this article, we assess whether the new gender and trade agenda marks a transformative moment in global trade governance or reproduces the trade orthodoxy, thereby perpetuating existing inequalities. We build upon critical trade and feminist IPE literatures to develop an analytical framework to examine whether gender and trade initiatives reproduce or disrupt the orthodoxy. Its four key markers are: market rationality, technocracy, legalization, and abstraction. We find that while most gender and trade initiatives that we study reproduce and further entrench the trade orthodoxy, there are openings that could lead towards a more transformative trade politics. Future research should examine the policy processes that produced these openings and investigate if and how they could be transferred into policy instruments that lead to real changes to how the world trades.