2015
DOI: 10.1177/1464993415592737
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Feminism, interrupted? Gender and development in the era of ‘Smart Economics’

Abstract: This article assesses feminist accounts of co-optation and appropriation in gender and development policy. Today women and girls are the public faces of anti-poverty policy and occupy an important position in the development discourse; however, the ambiguities of the neoliberal gender agenda have provoked an ongoing debate about the extent to which feminist aims and language have been and de-politicized by mainstream institutions. Have feminist aims been co-opted to legitimize anti-feminist policy goals, or do… Show more

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“…First, reflecting the ever-present concern with co-optation appropriation, a substantial group has asked about the extent to which this agenda is a feminist one: corporatized gender equality discourses have been alternately conceptualized in terms of 'post-feminist' politics, 'market' feminism, 'transnational business' feminism, and 'neoliberal' feminism (see Prügl, 2014;Calkin, 2015b). Second, others have approached the TBI question through the lens of global governance, exploring the emergent relationships between national governments, supra-national institutions, and corporations in which power relations are rapidly shifting to entrench and legitimise corporate power in the development process (Bexell, 2012;Roberts and Soederberg, 2012;Prügl and True, 2014;Roberts, 2014).…”
Section: 'Every Global Company Should Invest In the Girl Effect Econmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, reflecting the ever-present concern with co-optation appropriation, a substantial group has asked about the extent to which this agenda is a feminist one: corporatized gender equality discourses have been alternately conceptualized in terms of 'post-feminist' politics, 'market' feminism, 'transnational business' feminism, and 'neoliberal' feminism (see Prügl, 2014;Calkin, 2015b). Second, others have approached the TBI question through the lens of global governance, exploring the emergent relationships between national governments, supra-national institutions, and corporations in which power relations are rapidly shifting to entrench and legitimise corporate power in the development process (Bexell, 2012;Roberts and Soederberg, 2012;Prügl and True, 2014;Roberts, 2014).…”
Section: 'Every Global Company Should Invest In the Girl Effect Econmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tornada en una teoría política discursiva, meramente representacional, desconectada de lo colectivo, lo social y lo material y sin posible conexión con las relaciones de poder subyacentes a toda experiencia, es fácilmente asimilada en los discursos y propuestas políticas de las instituciones defensoras del proyecto neoliberal; podemos decir que es incluso cooptada por esas instituciones (Calkin 2015). Así, la estrategia de cooptación ha sido observada por las feministas (Hunt 2002, Kantola & Squires 2012, Mohanty 2013, quienes alertan del peligro de las políticas pro-mujeres (por ejemplo las políticas denominadas Business-woman) que acaban vaciando de contenido las tesis de transformación de las sociedades.…”
Section: El Sujeto Político Y Su Identidad Sexo/género: ¿Universal O unclassified
“…La dialéctica subyacente a la estrategia de la "Smart Economics" es la de la posibilidad de un retorno fácil en términos de desarrollo si se invierte en las mujeres, especialmente si se hace en la etapa de la adolescencia y juventud. Como muchas críticas feministas recalcan (Benería 2102, Calkin 2015, Chant 2012, Zuckerman 2007, Zuckerman & Qing 2003, Prügl 2017) la idea parece ser la de invertir en mujeres jóvenes para promover el desarrollo y beneficiar a otros y a la sociedad en su conjunto, dejando claro que el objetivo principal es "hacer que las mujeres trabajen para los mercados" (Chant 2012: 202). Esta instrumentalización del género hace de las mujeres un "conducto político" (Molyneux 2006(Molyneux , 2007 al servicio de otros, especialmente la familia.…”
Section: Igualdad De Género Y "Smart Economics" El Caso Del Banco Muunclassified
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