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dc.contributor.authorAcosta, Mariola
dc.contributor.authorvan Wessel, Margit
dc.contributor.authorvan Bommel, Severine
dc.contributor.authorAmpaire, Edidah
dc.contributor.authorJassogne, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorFeindt, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:36:17Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:36:17Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-17
dc.identifier.citationAcosta 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 Review
dc.identifier.issn1467-7679
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/6183
dc.description.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.
dc.format.extentIn press
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved; no re-use allowed
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPolicies
dc.titleThe power of narratives: Explaining inaction on gender mainstreaming in Uganda's climate change policy
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University and Research Centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEast Africa
cg.coverage.countryUganda
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.isijournalISI Journal
cg.journalDevelopment Policy Review
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
local.dspaceid106593
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12458


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