Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global
Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global
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不稳定的政治和女孩效应：探索全球化女孩的局限性
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2016
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C. Endsley
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Heather Switzer;Emily Bent;C. Endsley
摘要：本文认为，在旨在赋予全球南方女孩权力的人权和发展话语中，性别、年龄和民族之间存在着引人注目的交叉。我们展示了脆弱和早产的概念如何通过发展话语跨国传播，并扰乱了将青春期女性例外论作为消除全球贫困和实现女孩人权的“关键”的突出部署。我们的论点是，尽管青春期女孩今天作为新自由主义发展的理想主体非常引人注目，但作为人权的标准主体，她们也是难以辨认的。基于我们在撒哈拉以南非洲和联合国大厅中作为学者、活动家和艺术家的经验，我们考察了肯尼亚、埃塞俄比亚和北美的女孩如何经历当地和跨国的期望，这些期望是由“转向女孩”的发展所激发的，具有不同的、有时是(不)授权的影响。我们问，当世界上“最脆弱”人口的成员也被定位为“人类的救世主”时，这意味着什么？这对女童权利政策意味着什么？那么女孩们自己呢？综上所述，我们的工作表明，女孩的可见性需要在跨国空间工作的女权主义者重新调整我们的政治和认识论。
Abstract: This paper considers the compelling intersections of gender, age, and nation in human rights and development discourse aimed at empowering girls in the global South. We show how the concepts of vulnerability and precarity travel transnationally via development discourse and trouble the prominent deployment of adolescent female exceptionalism as the “key” to eradicating global poverty and realizing girls’ human rights. It is our contention that even as adolescent girls are today hypervisible as ideal subjects of neoliberal development, they are also illegible as normative subjects of human rights. Based on our experiences as scholars, activists, and artists in Sub-Saharan Africa and the halls of the United Nations, we examine how Kenyan, Ethiopian, and North American girls experience local and transnational expectations animated by the “turn to the girl” for development with differential and sometimes (dis)empowering effects. We ask, What does it mean when members of the world’s “most vulnerable” population are also positioned as the “saviors of humanity”? What does it mean for girls’ rights policy? What about for girls themselves? Taken together, our work suggests girls’ (in)visibility requires feminists working in transnational spaces to recalibrate our politics and epistemologies.