Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global

Switzer, Heather; Bent, Emily; Endsley, Crystal Leigh

doi:10.1353/ff.2016.0014

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“…Children have, in the western world, been deprived of their rights as subjects, and their inability for agency has been assumed (Garlen, 2019). This invisibility has been conceptualized as a form of precarity (Switzer et al, 2016). At the same time, children are burdened with the responsibility for turning unsustainability to sustainability and to abolish their precarity in the global discourse on climate change.…”

Section: Literature Review: Precarity In Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Holmberg

Alvinius

2021

Current Sociology

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This article proposes that children constitute a new climate precariat. This conceptualization contributes to a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of the vulnerability of children in relation to the climate crisis. Previous literature tends to treat climate change in an abstract fashion that renders today’s children invisible. Climate precarity consists of three main elements of vulnerability: temporality problems, insecurity and an identity vacuum. In relation to temporality and security, children are suffering from the potential loss of a sustainable future, which spurs the need for urgent action and constant consciousness – in the present. World leaders’ inaction creates an uncertainty regarding whom should be held responsible for taking action in guaranteeing children the future which climate change is at risk of depriving them. The concept of climate precarity could be used to explain children’s collective action in relation to the climate crisis. Children’s concerns in relation to the climate crisis suggest that agency and empowerment are spurred through their resistance towards these vulnerabilities.

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Section: Literature Review: Precarity In Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Holmberg

Alvinius

2021

Current Sociology

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“…Numerous scholars have analyzed how the Girl Effect's many videos and campaign materials posit girls as the solution to global poverty (e.g. Calkin, 2015a;Chant, 2016b;Grosser & van der Gaag, 2013;Moeller, 2018;Shain, 2013;Switzer et al, 2016). In the Girl Effect videos, in which girls in the Global South who are given a loan to buy a cow or school uniform lift entire communities out of poverty, saving themselves from early marriage and motherhood, HIV and prostitution (Girl Effect n.d.-a; Girl Effect n.d.-b), the only barrier to unlocking a girl's entrepreneurial zeal is a lack of access to capital and financial services, and training for workplace skills (Calkin, 2015b, p. 12).…”

Section: Misleading Narrative and Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE

Walters

2021

Review of International Political Economy

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Recent years have seen vast sums of money invested in health, education and economic empowerment Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs for women and girls, particularly in the Global South. Feminist scholars of IPE have charted how transnational corporations (TNCs) have partnered with international institutions, donor governments and non-governmental organizations to position themselves as champions of gender equality. There is some debate in the literature over whether this phenomenon constitutes a co-optation or an appropriation of feminism. In this article, I focus on the behavior of TNCs, arguing that it can be conceptualized as 'gender wash.' Drawing on the extensive environmental literature on the 'greenwashing' of corporations' public images, I outline a framework for analyzing CSR as 'gender washing.' Adapting Lyon and Montgomery's summary of the greenwashing literature, I present seven varieties of gender washselective disclosure, empty gender claims and policies, dubious certifications and labels, co-opted NGO endorsements and partnerships, ineffective public voluntary programs, misleading narrative and discourse, and misleading brandinggiving illustrative examples for each. In doing so, I aim to put forward a useful tool for critiquing contradictory claims made by corporations whose products, business model or employment practices are inherently damaging to women and girls.

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“…By exploring how such narrowing down of gender plays out in the RTP project, this article offers an empirical account illustrating how the changing role of NGOs and growing pressure for achieving impact and success affect their ability to represent and understand the lives of women and girls. Before elaborating on the RTP project and processes of demonstrating success, the article first provides background on how gender in global health has shifted from being political to becoming a de-politicised and rather technical mechanism, and how reproductive health and rights have been narrowed down to girls' education (see Austveg 2011;Switzer, Bent, and Endsley 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

From complexity to simplicity – how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices

Kloster¹

2020

Development in Practice

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This article argues that the "production" of success has become crucial for NGOs to manage their individual brand and secure funding within the contemporary global health and development landscape. Based on an empirical study of a Save the Children project in Malawi aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies by retaining girls in school, it illustrates how gender has become de-politicised within global health. Furthermore, it also shows how their changing role and growing pressure on NGOs to achieve impact and success stories affect NGOs' ability to represent and understand the lives of women and girls.

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Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global

Cited by 18 publications

References 34 publications

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition

Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE

From complexity to simplicity – how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices

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