Constructing and De-constructing the ACP Group: Actors, Strategies and Consequences for Development

Slocum-Bradley, Nikki

doi:10.1080/14650040701546095

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“…The second column of Table 2 has examples of each position; these are illustrative rather than exhaustive, with some more detail given in the following discussion. In the third column, storylines within which participants located these positions are provided as suggested tools for making sense (Slocum-Bradley, 2007), ranging from broad cultural narratives to family or personal storylines. Thus, positioning one's childlessness as a missed opportunity or a thwarted ''maternal instinct'' could be located within the cultural narrative ''Women are meant to be mothers and men fathers,'' and positioning childlessness as something that runs in families could be located in a family storyline ''Our family has a right to be different.…”

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“…Positioning storylines can be drawn from social norms (“Married with children is best”), general narrative forms (the comedy, the tragedy), typical relationships (patient–doctor, parent–child), personal beliefs (“I'm a loner”), or can be invented (Harré & van Langenhove, 1999). Rather than being true per se, they are tools for making sense: “There is no ‘real’ position or storyline, rather, storylines can be abstracted (given knowledge of a cultural repertoire) and are ‘verified’ because they help to make sense of sequences of events” (Slocum‐Bradley, 2007, p. 639).…”

Section: Who Is Childless?mentioning

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How Older People Position Their Late‐Life Childlessness: A Qualitative Study

Allen

Wiles

2013

J of Marriage and Family

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This research explored how older people describe their paths to late‐life childlessness. In‐depth accounts from 38 childless older people, age 63–93, highlight the complex journeys and diverse meanings of childlessness for male and female participants, single and partnered, including some who had outlived children. Positioning theory is used to show how the conventional voluntary – involuntary binary is insufficient for capturing their experiences. Childlessness was for some an active choice to break a family violence cycle; for others, it was an outcome of social upheaval. It evoked feelings of both grief and relief over time, it was seen as evidence of discernment in being unwilling to parent at any price, or it was something that felt “natural” within a meaningful life. Rates of childlessness are increasing; this research highlights the fact that pathways and meanings of childlessness vary so much that it is unwise to assume that people have similar experiences of nonparenthood, especially in later life.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Who Is Childless?mentioning

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How Older People Position Their Late‐Life Childlessness: A Qualitative Study

Allen

Wiles

2013

J of Marriage and Family

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“…2 The ACP Group reacted to the EU's proposal, seeking to preserve its identity and retain the levels of protection of the Lomé regime (Forwood, 2001). In general, while in the 1970s the ACP's unity led to significant achievements, in the post-Lomé era the ACP Group has rarely positioned itself as a unified actor and, thus, has not been able to negotiate as an equal partner with the EU (Slocum-Bradley, 2007). Unsurprisingly, the prevailing view among scholars is that 'the results of the internal negotiations within the EU, before actual talks with the ACP begin, continue to be the single best predictor of what an ACP-EU Agreement will eventually look like' (Elgström, 2000: 195).…”

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Rethinking Acp‐eu Relations After Cotonou: Tensions, Contradictions, Prospects

Carbone

2013

J of Intl Development

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This Policy Arena has two main objectives. First, it seeks to unravel how the partnership between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group has evolved since the adoption of the Cotonou Agreement in 2000, including its 2005 and 2010 reviews and the implementation of its three key pillars (development cooperation, trade and political dialogue). Second, it explores the prospects of EU‐ACP relations in the medium to long term. In particular, it discusses whether the ACP‐EU cooperation framework is still relevant in the light of a number of global changes and, more specifically, whether the ACP configuration is still useful to its members. To address these issues, both the EU and the ACP Group have established two working groups. Within the ACP, voices are critical of the EU‐ACP partnership, but there appears to be more willingness to reform and renew it. Within the EU, the record of the Cotonou Agreement is seen more positively, but there seems to be less willingness to preserve it. The third review of the Cotonou Agreement to be finalised by 2015, and more generally its expiration in 2020, provides an opportunity – to which this Policy Arena seeks to contribute – to rethink the EU‐ACP cooperation model. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…46 The regional negotiating groups are smaller and thus have less power to negotiate an agreement that favours the interest of the developing countries. Because of the EU's relative power and ability to assert its will, the developmental consequences of the still incomplete results of the regional negotiations have been a matter of great concern.…”

Section: Economic Partnership Agreementsmentioning

confidence: 99%