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Gender Norms, Agency, and Trajectories of Social Change and Development in Agricultural Communities.

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Title/Author:	Gender Norms, Agency, and Trajectories of Social Change and Development in Agricultural Communities./
Author:	Petesch, Patti.
Description:	1 online resource (312 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
Subject:	Innovations. -
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ISBN:	9798352612927

Gender Norms, Agency, and Trajectories of Social Change and Development in Agricultural Communities.
Petesch, Patti.

Gender Norms, Agency, and Trajectories of Social Change and Development in Agricultural Communities. - 1 online resource (312 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wageningen University and Research, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

The first and fifth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commit the global community of nations to end poverty (SDG 1) and achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (SDG 5) by the year 2030. The objective of my thesis is to improve understanding of microsocial processes that may contribute to achieving the two SDGs in smallholder communities. Given that rural regions hold 80 percent of the world's poor population and rural gender inequalities are often greater than urban, we need to better understand the conditions that enable these diverse women and men to access resources and opportunities and drive more inclusive development trajectories in their communities. My thesis takes on this challenge by working with and contributing to relational theory about a "local normative climate" and how this dynamic climate interacts with women's and men's agency and rural livelihoods. Local normative climate improves understanding of the contextual and fluid ways in which gender norms operate, including how norms interlock in complex ways and often vary among social categories of women and men. Chapter 1 presents the theory that informs my thesis and introduces the research questions and methodology. I discuss theory about the gender norms and agency interplay, and how these social forces influence women's and men's gender roles, relations, and capacities to innovate in their rural livelihoods. The chapter elaborates theory that underpins the dynamic local normative climate of a smallholder community, and how these forces shape and are also shaped by women's and men's capacities to act on consequential goals that may better their lives. Women and subordinate categories of men often negotiate and withdraw from individual norms that confine their agency; and these processes of normative relaxation contribute to a typically slow reformulation of norms. Under conditions of major shocks that weaken institutions, such as economic booms or wars, normative change can occur rapidly in ways that strongly encourage or discourage agency and gender equality across a location. Chapter 2 presents the GENNOVATE methodology. The qualitative study engaged women and men from 136 smallholder communities across 27 countries of the global South. We discuss how the case study research design addresses gender norms and agency theory and the study's three guiding questions. We also reflect critically on how the study's concerns for "context, comparison, and collaboration" inform the research design, including the maximum diversity sampling framework, semi-structured data collection instruments, and the protocols for organizing and analyzing the data produced by the fieldwork. The field instruments explore villagers' own understandings and experiences with making important decisions, innovating in their rural livelihoods, and moving out of or remaining trapped in poverty. Study participants also reflect on their local norms for women's and men's productive and reproductive roles and considered whether and how these norms vary due to life stage and socioeconomic status. We highlight challenges with applying the study's protocols, including with comparing evidence on norms. Chapter 3 introduces and applies the concept of local normative climate to an analysis of 24 village cases from seven countries of sub-Saharan Africa. We present findings from a focus group rating activity on a "power and freedom ladder" that depicts village men's (if a men's focus group) and women's (if a women's group) capacity to make important decisions in their lives.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352612927Subjects--Topical Terms:

754112
Innovations.
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Electronic books.

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