“<i>Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo</i>?”: An Interrogation of Gender Mainstreaming Deficits

Obiora, L. Amede

doi:10.1086/378554

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“…Scholars warn against political dilution and state co-optation of feminist agendas that maintain unequal power relations [35][36][37]. Unequal power relations have been particularly visible in the vertical (national-local) coordination of gender equality initiatives, in which localisation of policies, engagement with grassroots feminist networks, and co-creation of programmes is often overlooked [38][39][40][41]. A body of research addresses ways to remedy these dynamics and demonstrates how the participation of non-state actors is an enabling condition for gender mainstreaming [13,[42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

Section: Politics and Powermentioning

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Gender mainstreaming at 25 years: Toward an inclusive, collaborative, and structured research agenda

Caywood,

Darmstadt

2024

J Glob Health

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Background Gender mainstreaming has been central to the development agenda for advancing gender equality globally for nearly three decades. We examined key learning across gender mainstreaming models and experiences and assess key successes and challenges in actualising gender mainstreaming's transformative potential, in order to inform future research agendas. MethodsWe reviewed 27 years of peer-reviewed literature on gender mainstreaming and described scholarly publishing trends on the topic based on a set of 528 articles and bibliographic data retrieved from the Scopus database and supplemental coding. The review provides a thematic synthesis of the extant literature, assessing the evidence base to identify gaps and opportunities for future research and collaboration with practitioners. We also contextualise recent research by tracing common threads of scholarly and practitioner discussions over the last two decades. ResultsPublications on gender mainstreaming have increased, primarily from authors with European and USA academic affiliations and funding. Gender mainstreaming in the health and law and policy sectors has been researched most frequently. Trends in co-authorship suggest increasing collaboration among academics, yet limited collaboration among researchers and practitioners. Widespread low citation counts raise concerns about engagement with the literature. Key challenges in gender mainstreaming identified include conceptual clarity, academic-practitioner disjunctures, politics, leadership and organisational culture, men's roles, intersectionality, monitoring and evaluation, and public health sectoral concerns. ConclusionsThe gender mainstreaming literature has expanded considerably over the last 25 years, yet there remain critical knowledge gaps, theoretical inconsistencies, weak research methods and evaluation processes, and implementation challenges. Funders, researchers, and practitioners have failed to prioritise bridging north-south and academic-practitioner divides in gender mainstreaming policy, programmes, and research. Integration of intersectionality also remains nascent. A more inclusive, collaborative, and structured research agenda on gender mainstreaming is needed to effect greater change in the face of persistent and new challenges. Engaging and empowering regional women's organisations, collaborative learning and research programmes, and joint research and advocacy groups; implementing gender-attuned editorial policies; and incorporating gender mainstreaming in educational curricula are recommended.

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Section: Politics and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender mainstreaming at 25 years: Toward an inclusive, collaborative, and structured research agenda

Caywood,

Darmstadt

2024

J Glob Health

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“…First, they maintained a geographic imaginary that understood violence in Africa as separate from other places and spaces. Second, they ascribed to the mainstreaming of gender issues common in international development programs since the 1990's in which progressive gender politics are seen as a marker of modernity (Obiora 2003). Finally, they perpetuated the neoliberal focus on individual rather than systemic change.…”

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‘Peace begins at home’: Geographic imaginaries of violence and peacebuilding in northern Uganda

Laliberté

2016

Political Geography

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“…The doubts and critiques on what gender mainstreaming means and has delivered are persistent. That gender mainstreaming has been vulnerable to technocratisation, depolitisation and evaporation is a repeated criticism (Obiora, ; Moser and Moser, ; Piálek, ; NORAD, ; Parpart, ; also IDS Bulletin special issue 2004 by Cornwall et al ., Development & Change special issue 2007 by Cornwall et al . and Gender & Development special issue 2005 by Sweetman and Porter and more recently 2012 by Sweetman).…”

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“…A range of publications since the late 1990s, in particular within the broad field of development studies but also within international relations and political science, reveal the disappointments of what has actually been realised so far (e.g. Bacchi and Eveline, ; Bessis, ; Goetz, ; Obiora, ; Daly, ; Squires, ; Benschop and Verloo, ; Roggeband and Verloo, ; Cornwall and Edwards, ; Sweetman, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The doubts and critiques on what gender mainstreaming means and has delivered are persistent. That gender mainstreaming has been vulnerable to technocratisation, depolitisation and evaporation is a repeated criticism (Obiora, 2004;Moser and Moser, 2005;Piálek, 2005;NORAD, 2006;Parpart, 2009; Sweetman). Even claims of gender mainstreaming being post-feminist or un-feminist are made, generating suggestions such as to take a break from feminism (Halley, 2006;McRobbie, 2009).…”

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Feminist Change Revisited: Gender Mainstreaming as Slow Revolution

Davids

Driel

Parren

2013

J of Intl Development

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Within the growing body of literature on gender mainstreaming, intense and vivid discussions on an assumed loss of transformative potential and a feminist, revolutionary promise of change exist. Our analysis uses a paradigm shift in thinking on power and social relations, for analysing conceptualisations of both gender and change. We point to the necessity of rethinking this revolutionary feminist promise and its underlying subject theory. In breaking away from a utopian vision of change, we argue that gender mainstreaming can be considered part of what we will label a slow revolution. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“Supri, supri, supri, Oyibo?”: An Interrogation of Gender Mainstreaming Deficits

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Gender mainstreaming at 25 years: Toward an inclusive, collaborative, and structured research agenda

Gender mainstreaming at 25 years: Toward an inclusive, collaborative, and structured research agenda

‘Peace begins at home’: Geographic imaginaries of violence and peacebuilding in northern Uganda

Feminist Change Revisited: Gender Mainstreaming as Slow Revolution

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