How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis

This thesis examines how gender and women are included, constructed and represented in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) policy documents. Using Critical Discourse Analysis with a feminist approach, this study analyzes ten IWRM policy documents, ranging from the international to nationa...

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Autor principal: Johansson, Karin
Formato: H2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2016
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description This thesis examines how gender and women are included, constructed and represented in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) policy documents. Using Critical Discourse Analysis with a feminist approach, this study analyzes ten IWRM policy documents, ranging from the international to national level. Also a developed of Walby’s phase’s for women’s inclusion is used to determine to which degree gender and gender are included on the whole. The results show that the inclusion of women and gender issues is still not self-evident within water management, even though the IWRM framework is based on principles that recognize the importance of women. Women are especially reproduced as providers of household and community water, and the constructed role of women is as efficiency catalysts and care-givers and vulnerable. Furthermore, ‘gender’ is generally equated to ‘women’ or does not go beyond ‘women and men’. Thus, to exclude men from the assessment and the constructing ‘gender’ as an issue that only concerns women entails that it is women who should find the solutions. The ‘local people’ which the policies concern are overall represented as ‘the Other’, in a passive manner.
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spelling RepoSLU92712016-07-13T08:15:50Z How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis Johansson, Karin Gender water women IWRM men development discourse analysis This thesis examines how gender and women are included, constructed and represented in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) policy documents. Using Critical Discourse Analysis with a feminist approach, this study analyzes ten IWRM policy documents, ranging from the international to national level. Also a developed of Walby’s phase’s for women’s inclusion is used to determine to which degree gender and gender are included on the whole. The results show that the inclusion of women and gender issues is still not self-evident within water management, even though the IWRM framework is based on principles that recognize the importance of women. Women are especially reproduced as providers of household and community water, and the constructed role of women is as efficiency catalysts and care-givers and vulnerable. Furthermore, ‘gender’ is generally equated to ‘women’ or does not go beyond ‘women and men’. Thus, to exclude men from the assessment and the constructing ‘gender’ as an issue that only concerns women entails that it is women who should find the solutions. The ‘local people’ which the policies concern are overall represented as ‘the Other’, in a passive manner. SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2016 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/9271/
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water
women
IWRM
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discourse analysis
Johansson, Karin
How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title_full How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title_fullStr How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title_full_unstemmed How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title_short How integrated are women and gender in Integrated Water Resource Management? : a discourse analysis
title_sort how integrated are women and gender in integrated water resource management? : a discourse analysis
topic Gender
water
women
IWRM
men
development
discourse analysis