The power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda's climate change policy

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cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Research
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierMariola Acosta: 0000-0003-4456-1283
cg.creator.identifierEdidah Ampaire: 0000-0003-3679-8360
cg.creator.identifierLaurence Jassogne: 0000-0002-2106-5001
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12458
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP1_PACCA
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP1_PACCA2
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1467-7679
cg.issue5
cg.journalDevelopment Policy Review
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ccafsPRIORITIES AND POLICIES FOR CSA
cg.subject.ccafsGENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
cg.volume38
dc.contributor.authorAcosta, Mariola
dc.contributor.authorWessel, Margit van
dc.contributor.authorBommel, Severine van
dc.contributor.authorAmpaire, Edidah L.
dc.contributor.authorJassogne, Laurence T.P.
dc.contributor.authorFeindt, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-31T13:56:59Zen
dc.date.available2019-07-31T13:56:59Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/102392
dc.titleThe power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda's climate change policyen
dcterms.abstractExpectations that gender‐mainstreaming efforts would effectively advance gender equality have been disappointed in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Examining this apparent disconnect, we focus on the narratives through which policy‐makers relate to, and dis/engage with, gender issues. Using in‐depth interviews and stakeholder meetings, our multi‐step analysis identifies story episodes from which we reconstruct stories and narratives. The analysis reveals a complex ecology of 22 stories, clustered in five main narratives. While most stories unfold a gender equality narrative, four competing narratives emerge. Shifts during conversations from the gender equality to other narratives reveal that the discursive engagement with gender mainstreaming is accompanied by simultaneous resistance, deconstruction and revocation. These narrative shifts exercise four distinct power effects: They (1) shift blame for ineffective gender implementation; (2) legitimize policy inaction; (3) foreground and naturalize patriarchy; and (4) promote the diversion of resources. The implicit communicative strategies exercise power through ideas (persuade listeners that the equality narrative is inappropriate), power over ideas (gender equality ideas are rejected or frustrated) and power in ideas (entrenched patriarchy ideas are reproduced). Attention to ideational power through policy narrative contributes to explain implementation issues with gender mainstreaming in Uganda, and is likely to be relevant beyond this case.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2020-06-10
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAcosta M, van Wessel M, van Bommel S, Ampaire EL, Jassogne L, Feindt PH. 2019. The power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda's climate change policy. Development Policy Reviewen
dcterms.extentp. 555-574
dcterms.issued2020-09
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherWiley
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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