CR20. Lost in Application: Women and Gender in Development and Environment

Resumen del Salón:

Women and gender are reemerging on development agendas across the globe.  A range of development institutions (various UN entities such as FAO, members of the CGIAR such as CIFOR, multilateral development banks such as the World Bank) and government policies contend that women’s empowerment and gender equality are key to achieving food security, climate change adaptation, forest management, and other sustainable development goals. This paper examines the policy relevant research and recommendations on women, gender, the environment and sustainable.  It finds that while gender inequality is repeatedly acknowledged, there is little analysis of the complex nature of gendered social relations and vulnerabilities. Rather feminist concerns about women and gender in environment and development are translated into pragmatic and depoliticized actions to “empower women.”  What is lost in translation is attention to broad factors such as political economy that would help trace the uneven structural violence associated with the imperatives of neoliberal economic development policies and the governance forms associated with it. This means that “gender mainstreaming” is promoted within standard development models that leave intact the structural conditions that exacerbate rather than ameliorate gender equality. The insights about “women and gender” also apply albeit differently to other forms of structural inequities such as those associated with race and sexuality.

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Coordinador 1: Kiran Asher, Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts

Moderador: Erika Marquez Montaño, Programa de Género - Universidad Icesi

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