Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia?

Bhavnani, Kum‐Kum; Foran, John

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2007.08.009

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“…Interestingly, methods for challenging the co-option of the future were significantly less well-represented than critical approaches to the past. 10 One approach was to deny the importance of the future altogether (Edelman, 2004), or alternately, to maintain an orientation towards the future, but one which eschews the positing of perfect utopias in favour of working with the possibilities available in the present (Bhavnani and Foran, 2008). Others, notably Grosz (2005), questioned the emancipatory potential of a future that flowed from the present and instead emphasised the radical unpredictability of the future.…”

Section: Cross-cutting Themesmentioning

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Time and community: A scoping study

Bastian

2014

Time & Society

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This paper reports on the results of a commissioned scoping study that explored the extent of research available on time and community. Using a range of techniques designed to provide a rapid overview of this relatively indistinct research area, 885 studies were identified for inclusion in the study. Importantly, only 85 of these were identified as 'highly relevant' to the study's focus. An analysis of these articles revealed 11 core themes in work on time and community. Two cross-cutting themes that arose from the full range of included studies were then selected for further analysis. These were the role of time in inclusion and exclusion and 'critical temporalities', that is, work that develops critical temporal responses as part of addressing social inequalities. This broader analysis suggested three overarching concerns shared by both cross-cutting themes: past, present and future; continuity and discontinuity; and multiple rhythms of time use. After exploring how these concerns are addressed in the literature, the paper concludes with an outline of the gaps in research on time and community, as well as recommendations for further research.

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Section: Cross-cutting Themesmentioning

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Time and community: A scoping study

Bastian

2014

Time & Society

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“…Examples of emancipatory progress can be found in small doses in Sri Lanka where the human rights and human security discourses have been instrumental in challenging the commodification of natural resources, land, labor and culture, and the global debate over the price of AIDS drugs (Bastian 2004:413). Others point to the Zapatista movement in Mexico, rubber tappers in Amazon, and Self‐Employed Women’s Union in India as other examples of counter‐hegemonic practices (Bhavnani and Foran 2008). And while none of these on their own represent a powerful counter‐hegemonic process, they do indicate the progress and movements toward emancipatory notions of human security that can be achieved when politics is based on agonism and conflict as opposed to consensus.…”

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Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism¹

Peterson

2012

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The human security agenda, as currently operationalized by the majority of powerful states and institutions, exhibits a distinct liberal character, simultaneously contributing to and legitimizing the dominant liberal peacebuilding approach. As such, there has been a crowding out of alternative conceptions of human security, including those which focus on emancipation. This latter approach to human security offers a more transformative vision through its focus on issues such as hegemony, power, and freedom. Paths to such forms of human security have yet to materialize, largely due to the characteristics of a liberal-internationalist approach which has narrowed the political space in which challenges to the status quo can be imagined and realized. In its failure to allow for a genuine plurality of voices and in its insistence on creating false consensus, liberal peacebuilding blocks the emancipatory promise of a genuine shift from state to human security. A potential starting point for imagining alternatives to liberal peacebuilding and thus the creation of emancipatory forms of human security is to consider the role and possibilities for agonistic modes of politics and peacebuilding. Transforming inevitable differences that are part of human society into agonistic relationships-where differences exist and are negotiated among adversaries (as opposed to enemies)-opens up the political space required to challenge dominant liberal approaches to human security and enables a shift toward the emancipatory model.To negate the political does not make it disappear, it only leads to bewilderment in the face of its manifestations and to impotence in dealing with them (Mouffe 1993:140)

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“…While critics of Boserup's work question the viability of a Western model of development for the poor in non-Western countries, her work led to a more comprehensive overview of women's roles in the development process, and made many international donor agencies aware of their inattention to women (Drolet, 2010). Bhavnani and Foran (2008) note that Boserup's (1970) work was taken seriously, partly because the development community began to realise that the trickle-down approach had not been effective. Thus, Boserup's work forms the basis of Women in Development (WID) approaches, and argues for treating women on equal terms with men (ibid.…”

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“…Thus, Boserup's work forms the basis of Women in Development (WID) approaches, and argues for treating women on equal terms with men (ibid. ); this perspective, emerging from liberal feminist framework, argues that development would be more efficient if women were used as a resource in economic development (Bhavnani and Foran, 2008). However, as Drolet (2010) notes, this assumed mistakenly that all women could be emancipated under capitalist development by their incorporation in the public 'productive' sphere, in particular, by increasing their access to an expanding cash economy.…”

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“…However, as Drolet (2010) notes, this assumed mistakenly that all women could be emancipated under capitalist development by their incorporation in the public 'productive' sphere, in particular, by increasing their access to an expanding cash economy. Women's participation in the economy and therefore gender equity came to be (rather uncomplicatedly) seen as synonymous, a view shared by both the World Bank and the Eastern bloc (Bhavnani and Foran, 2008). The first decade of the work of WID (1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985) rallied governments and international organisations to allocate funds for projects targeting women, and a large number of projects were initiated for women in most developing countries (Drolet, 2010).…”

Section: Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: A Study of Competing Logics and Their Implications for Accounting and Accountability Systems

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<p>This study explores the issues of microfinance and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, and their implications for accounting and accountability systems. The topic is politically contentious. There are debates about what ‘women’s empowerment’ means, how it fits with the other stated objectives of microfinance, how the success of microfinance should be evaluated, whether women are actually being empowered through microfinance initiatives, and concerns about the accountability of microfinance institutions (Kilby, 2006; Rahman, 1999). My study examines these controversies, drawing and building on Mayoux (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) and the work of others on ‘competing logics’ evident in microfinance theory and practice. In particular, it compares and contrasts ‘economic’ and ‘social’ logics and explores their implications for how accounting and accountability systems are conceptualised and operationalised. In recognition of the dominance of economic logics in traditional accounting, it also responds to calls to develop more multi-dimensional accountings and ways of operationalising proposals for greater social accountability (Bebbington et al., 2007; Brown, 2009; Dillard and Roslender, 2011; Kilby, 2006, 2011; Kindon et al., 2007; Molisa et al., 2012). Through a participatory action research case study, my study focuses on the potential of dialogic accounting and accountability systems to address some of the problems and challenges identified in both gender and development studies and accounting literatures.</p>

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Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia?

Cited by 20 publications

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Time and community: A scoping study

Time and community: A scoping study

Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism¹

Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: A Study of Competing Logics and Their Implications for Accounting and Accountability Systems

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Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia?

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Time and community: A scoping study

Time and community: A scoping study

Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism1

Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: A Study of Competing Logics and Their Implications for Accounting and Accountability Systems

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Creating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism¹