Gender and capacity building: A multi-layered study of empowerment

Eger, Claudia; Miller, Graham; Scarles, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.024

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“…This is because women's empowerment is contingent not only upon changes within individual persons, but also on the ways power structures relationships within and between different institutional levels (Nazneen et al, 2014; Sen, 1994). Eger et al (2018) explain that empowerment processes are inevitably affected by social norms and discourse and therefore involve relational, multi-level and multi-directional processes of change. In many societies, also, individual empowerment is associated to a strong sense of family togetherness (Mokomane, 2012).…”

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Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Galiè

Farnworth²

2019

Global Food Security

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Highlights Current empowerment efforts fail to capture a critical component of empowerment - its relational nature. Individual's empowerment is constituted through the empowerment of others in significant relationship to them. The ability of women to empower themselves is mediated through the deliberative support of others. Community judgment of individual alignment with gender norms determines empowerment outcomes in daily realities. Public adherence to local gender norms creates a safe façade to deviate from the norms.

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Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Galiè

Farnworth²

2019

Global Food Security

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“…While individual regard is central to ethics (Darwall, 2013), it is circumscribed by the limits of prevailing norms and status beliefs. An individual's "reason to value," hence, is not merely individual but also relationally (Eger et al, 2018) and societally constituted (Mahmood, 2011). A better understanding of the ethical formation of the self in this process would provide valuable insights into the complex interconnections between the discursive traditions of Islam, the repetition of norms, and their diverse valorization as part of everyday life.…”

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Equality and Gender at Work in Islam: The Case of the Berber Population of the High Atlas Mountains

Eger

2020

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This article investigates how religion-based social norms and values shape women’s access to employment in Muslim-majority countries. It develops a religiously sensitive conceptualization of the differential valence of genders based on respect, which serves to (re)produce inequality. Drawing on an ethnographic study of work practice in Berber communities in Morocco, aspects of respect are analyzed through an honor–shame continuum that serves to moralize and mediate gender relations. The findings show that respect and shame function as key inequality-(re)producing mechanisms. The dynamic interrelationship between respect and shame has implications for how we understand the ways in which gender inequality is institutionalized and (re)produced across different levels. Through these processes, gender-differentiated forms of respect become inscribed in organizational structures and practices, engendering persistent inequality.

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“…Moreover, power within and power with are critical determinants of aspirations. Eger, Miller, and Scarles (2018) underline that changes from within directly affect the ability to a make choice, whereas conscientization, and then power with, impact the capacity to aspire. Both are active in the consciousness women have that they can change their life.…”

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Changing women’s lives? Empowerment and aspirations of fair trade workers in South India

Ange

Ballet

Carimentrand

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Journal of Global Ethics

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Fair trade is a new form of commercial partnership whereby actors in the North engage with actors in the South on a number of conditions, including setting a minimum price, a development bonus, and so on. But above all, fair trade organizations in the South are implementing mechanisms that more or less facilitate the empowerment of their members. This article analyzes the empowerment effects of two fair trade organizations in South India. It shows that while positive effects can be seen, the prevailing social norms in India are extremely influential for women at the moment, so that women are putting all their hopes on their daughters through their education.

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Gender and capacity building: A multi-layered study of empowerment

Cited by 65 publications

References 36 publications

Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse

Equality and Gender at Work in Islam: The Case of the Berber Population of the High Atlas Mountains

Changing women’s lives? Empowerment and aspirations of fair trade workers in South India

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