Interrogating 'Gender' in Development Policy and Practice THE WORLD BANK, TOURISM AND MICROENTERPRISE IN HONDURAS
Interrogating 'Gender' in Development Policy and Practice THE WORLD BANK, TOURISM AND MICROENTERPRISE IN HONDURAS
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DOI：
10.1080/14616740903429080
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Ferguson, Lucy
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作者：
Ferguson, Lucy
国际发展机构已将“性别”作为任何政策、方案或项目的基本组成部分。然而，这样做的意义往往与女权主义者争取更平等的性别权力关系和社会正义的最初目标相去甚远。这篇文章详细研究了发展筹资的一个特殊方面-以旅游业为基础的微型企业-并概述了在三个不同层面上构建“性别”的方式：世界银行、哥伦比亚政府和科潘的一个旅游业发展项目。它以决策者和发展工作者的解释和观点补充对政策文件的分析，以丰富的经验说明在发展进程的所有阶段对性别问题的理解是复杂的，有时是相互矛盾的。然后，它利用这一分析来说明这些对“性别”的特殊解释如何影响项目的成果，以及为什么项目最终未能实现将土著妇女纳入旅游业发展进程的目标。
International development institutions have adopted `gender' as a fundamental component of any policy, programme or project. However, the meaning of this is often far from the original aims of feminists fighting for a commitment to more equal gendered power relations and social justice. This article offers a detailed study of one particular strand of development funding - tourism-based microenterprises - and outlines the ways in which `gender' is constructed at three different levels: the World Bank, the Honduran government and a tourism development project in Copan. It supplements analysis of policy documents with the interpretations and perspectives of policy-makers and development workers to present a rich empirical picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which gender is understood at all stages of the development process. It then uses this analysis to demonstrate how these particular interpretations of `gender' influenced the outcomes of the project and why it ultimately failed in its goals of integrating indigenous women into the process of tourism development.