Cristin-resultat-ID: 1738586
Sist endret: 20. februar 2020, 15:50
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2019
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2019

“Nowadays there is gender”: “Doing” global gender equality in rural Malawi

Bidragsytere:
  • Johanna Adolfsson og
  • Ole Jacob Madsen

Tidsskrift

Theory & psychology
ISSN 0959-3543
e-ISSN 1461-7447
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2019
Sider: 1 - 21
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85074411276

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Tittel

“Nowadays there is gender”: “Doing” global gender equality in rural Malawi

Sammendrag

This article analyzes the intersection of psychology with global development policy and practice, reviewing how gender as a concept is negotiated and understood amongst men and women in rural Malawi. We argue that gender, considered from a psychological perspective, has been narrowed down to meet the standards of global policy actors. By empowering individuals to “self-actualize,” policy implementers expect social and economic spin-off effects such as lower birth rates, higher education levels, and poverty reduction. The focus on individuals acts to obscure the broader structural power inequities, is especially prevalent in rural Malawi. To explain this, we use Haslam’s idea of “concept creep,” on how psychological concepts tend to affect other institutional traditions. The everyday understandings of gendered life described here show how gender is a fluid concept that shifts according to cultural, social, and ideological norms.

Bidragsytere

Johanna Sofia Adolfsson

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Johanna Adolfsson
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Psykologisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo
Aktiv cristin-person

Ole Jacob Madsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Psykologisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo
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