Mainstreaming gender in European Union development cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa: promising numbers, narrow contents, telling silences

Debusscher, Petra; Vleuten, J.M. van der

doi:10.3828/idpr.2012.19

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“…Moreover, the asymmetrical relationship has been strengthened by the EU's actions deconstructing the ACP Group and undermining ACP Group solidarity (Slocum‐Bradley, ; Ngangjoh‐Hodu and Matambalya, ; Adebajo and Whiteman, ). The few attempts to promote norms – for instance, democracy and human rights (Del Biondo, ; Crawford, ), democratic participation (Carbone, ), gender equality (Debusscher, ), regional integration (Farrell, ), and sustainable development (Flint, ) – have resulted, in some cases, in a blatant gap between rhetoric and reality and, in other cases, in rather paternalistic overtones by the EU. For instance, Storey () admits that in the EU's approach to the EPAs, there may be elements of a normative approach – in fact, the EU may genuinely want to diffuse norms rather than promote its commercial interests – but ‘the norms of neo‐liberal governance being promoted may not correspond to the developmental needs of … [ACP] economies’ (Storey, : 343).…”

Section: The Cotonou Agreement: Evolution and Explanationsmentioning

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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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Section: The Cotonou Agreement: Evolution and Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Carbone

2013

J of Intl Development

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“…Since the early stages of the field, Raymond Apthorpe (1996) called for research on the social processes in framing, naming, and numbering the contexts and interventions involved, as they constitute important practices in development policy work. Since then, there has been extensive research looking critically into the implementation of policy papers including in Rwanda (Marriage, 2006;Debusscher and Ansoms, 2013;Debusscher and van der Vleuten, 2012;Holvoet and Rombouts, 2008). This body of research clearly identifies the challenges when attempting to write the best technical recipes for complex social problems without considering issues related to the long-term, structural dimensions of social transformation.…”

Section: Researching Transitional Justice Policy Reports: Methodologimentioning

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“…The technocratisation of aid, and its consequent depoliticisation, are not exclusive to TJ practices (see e.g. Holvoet and Rombouts, 2008;Debusscher and van der Vleuten, 2012;Debusscher and Ansoms, 2013). Depoliticisation does not render processes apolitical; instead, it simply silences or hides the social and political matters at play.…”

Section: Report Production: the Depoliticisation Of Normative Battlesmentioning

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The Social Life of Policy Reports

Jamar¹

2017

Revue Internationale Des Études Du Développement

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Adopting a Latourian approach, this article examines the social role played by policy reports, which are produced and used in the everyday implementation of transitional justice, using the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda as a case study. As glossy end products, transitional justice reports create the image of more efficient processes unaffected by difficult politics. The article traces the journey of Gacaca policy reports and the shift from their envisioned role to their actual performed functions: considered as technical safeguards, reports become central tools in the transitional justice battlefield-almost as if reports were used as weapons while arguing about the past and the nature of the transition. Since transitional justice processes mostly culminate in the production of reports which presume to clarify and make accountable complex legacies of violence, such an analysis contributes significantly to addressing the construction of transitional justice narratives critically. Given the ubiquity of reports in aid-dependent policy implementation, this article draws attention to often glossed-over aspects of complex politics and to the contentious role played by international aid organisations. By doing so, the paper encourages discussions about the materiality of international aid and its social consequences. N o 232 2017~4 Revue internationale des études du développement 170 astrid jamar

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“…These questions have come to the fore in recent years in the study of gender in EU external actions (Kunz and Maisenbacher, 2015), in particular questions of 'who has a say?' (Debusscher, 2011: 45), 'telling silences' (Debusscher and van der Vleuten, 2012), and 'including women's voices?' (Debusscher and Hulse, 2014).…”

Section: Broader Underlying Problems Of Studying Gender Equality In Ementioning

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Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions

Debusscher

Manners

2020

Political Studies Review

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This article assesses the study of gender equality policies in European Union external actions with a focus on the theoretical and empirical routes to understanding the field in times of crises. It argues that the emerging body of literature on gender in European Union external relations makes it possible to explain, understand, and judge the European Union in global politics by rethinking the nature of power from a gender perspective. The article then argues that to develop gender and European Union external relations in its next decade, it is necessary to rethink the study of the European Union as a global gender actor. This encompasses a reassessment of the ‘European Union’, ‘gender’, and the ‘global’, as well as the development of a holistic macro-, meso-, and micro-analysis. The article concludes by proposing a distinctive theoretical and methodological approach which involves a holistic intersectional and inclusive study of gender+ in European Union external actions.

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Mainstreaming gender in European Union development cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa: promising numbers, narrow contents, telling silences

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

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

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

The Social Life of Policy Reports

Understanding the European Union as a Global Gender Actor: The Holistic Intersectional and Inclusive Study of Gender+ in External Actions

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