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.

国际发展以性别为重点，着手解决男女之间的不平等结构，从而推动长期以来的女权主义平等主张，目的是建立一个平等的社会。性别与发展(GAD)方案和政策已从性别中立转向对性别敏感，最近又转向性别变革方法(Hochfield和Bassadien，2007年；埃斯皮诺萨，2013年)。后者有可能推动和支持能够解决不平等结构的变革，包括受教育机会、经济可能性、政治参与以及作为不平等现象和结果的基于性别的暴力(康沃尔和里瓦斯2015)。虽然自20世纪80年代以来，以性别平等和妇女赋权为重点的不平等结构问题一直是国际发展工作的明确重点，并构成了当前国际和国家发展议程的关键组成部分，如可持续发展目标5，但作为一个全球社会，我们尚未解决基于性别的歧视(OECD 2023)。我的博士论文认为，未能在全球消除性别不平等的根源在于，基于共同创造关于性别和社会变革的知识的限制，或完全没有将伦理和参与政治纳入主流国际发展机构，以符合后殖民女权主义批评(Mama，2004年)我在我的博士研究中研究了在西非加纳选定的社区实施一项具体的国际非政府组织(INGO)方案的情况。我主张有必要在发展研究、政策和实践中采用一种变革性的跨国女权主义视角，并以学术工作为基础，与围绕女权主义的“知识社区”的激进领域密切相关(Assiter 1996；Nneemka 1998；Yuval-Davis 2010；Radcliffe 2015)。这一视角要求社区一级的社会文化价值观，如尊重与和谐，必须与以全球权利为基础的方法所表达和颁布的国际GAD方案中的价值观同等重要。这种对价值观的相互考察改变了我们对学术和政策的理解，因为它认为，我们需要将变革性性别思维的同样批判性视角应用于来自全球北方和全球南方的利益攸关方的文化和权利。这就把焦点从传统的(原文如此！)国际发展的重点是全球南部贫困社区的有害传统，并询问主流国际发展继续对后殖民空间施加结构性暴力的问题，包括当地妇女组织的工作。该奖学金将使我能够通过在同行评议的学术期刊上发表研究结果来加强我的博士研究的影响。为了最大限度地发挥这种影响，我着手在全球南半球和全球北半球内部和整个学术、政策和实践领域传播研究成果。我的目标是对女权主义发展实践者的角色进行进一步的有限研究，我在博士学位中辩称，这是亟需的合作伦理和政治重组的核心。布里斯托尔大学社会学、政治和国际研究学院(SPAIS)是我通过政治和国际研究路径获得奖学金的理想东道主组织。我的主要导师，和平·A·梅迪博士，为性别与政治的关系项目带来了大量的专业知识，重点是撒哈拉以南非洲和全球知识生产。我的二级导师梅里·吉布森教授成功地指导了博士后，并增加了对社会文化规范的批判性研究，这些规范可能会对妇女和女孩产生“有害”影响。在更广泛的大学层面上，我的研究金可以为当前关于课程非殖民化的倡议提供信息。