Gendered perceptions of power and decision-making in rural Kenya
Gendered perceptions of power and decision-making in rural Kenya
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DOI：
10.1111/dpr.12257
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Birner, Regina
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作者：
Aberman, Noora-Lisa;Behrman, Julia;Birner, Regina
发展政策和方案所依据的是关于什么是权力以及如何改变权力动态的假设。然而，他们很少考虑当地对权力的理解。在这篇文章中，我们问这些共同的假设是如何对应的社会和文化的具体想法是什么权力，谁可以掌握权力，以及如何权力可以转移，在肯尼亚的湖泊地区的农村社区。我们发现，男人和女人在家庭中不断地为权力进行谈判，在他们的性别限制范围内。占主导地位的权力零和概念可能会破坏增强权能的共同发展办法。然而，调查结果也突出了这一概念的一些例外情况，以及对增强权能采取整个家庭办法的价值。
Development policies and programmes rest on assumptions about what constitutes power and how to change power dynamics. However, they rarely consider local understandings of power. In this article we ask how these common assumptions correspond with socially and culturally specific ideas about what power is, who can hold power, and how power can be transferred, in rural communities in Kenya's lake region. We find that men and women are constantly negotiating for power in the household, within the bounds of their gendered limitations. And the predominant zero-sum conception of power may undermine common development approaches to empowerment. However, the results also highlight some exceptions to this conceptualization, as well as the value of taking a whole-family approach to empowerment.