Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by femi...
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| author | Petesch, Patti Bullock, Renee Feldman, Shelley Badstue, Lone B. Rietveld, Anne M. Bauchspies, Wenda Kamanzi, Adelbertus Tegbaru, Amare Yila, Jummai Othniel |
| author_browse | Badstue, Lone B. Bauchspies, Wenda Bullock, Renee Feldman, Shelley Kamanzi, Adelbertus Petesch, Patti Rietveld, Anne M. Tegbaru, Amare Yila, Jummai Othniel |
| author_facet | Petesch, Patti Bullock, Renee Feldman, Shelley Badstue, Lone B. Rietveld, Anne M. Bauchspies, Wenda Kamanzi, Adelbertus Tegbaru, Amare Yila, Jummai Othniel |
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| description | We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change. |
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| spelling | CGSpace976392025-11-12T05:47:50Z Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa Petesch, Patti Bullock, Renee Feldman, Shelley Badstue, Lone B. Rietveld, Anne M. Bauchspies, Wenda Kamanzi, Adelbertus Tegbaru, Amare Yila, Jummai Othniel gender empowerment africa south of saharah climate qualitative analysis livelihoods We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change. 2018 2018-10-11T09:10:27Z 2018-10-11T09:10:27Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97639 en Open Access application/pdf Petesch, P., Bullock, R., Feldman, S., Badstue, L., Rietveld, A., Bauchspies, W., ... Yila, J. (2018). Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security. 3(1), 108-130. |
| spellingShingle | gender empowerment africa south of saharah climate qualitative analysis livelihoods Petesch, Patti Bullock, Renee Feldman, Shelley Badstue, Lone B. Rietveld, Anne M. Bauchspies, Wenda Kamanzi, Adelbertus Tegbaru, Amare Yila, Jummai Othniel Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title | Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_fullStr | Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_short | Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort | local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub saharan africa |
| topic | gender empowerment africa south of saharah climate qualitative analysis livelihoods |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97639 |
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