The Tyranny of Tools: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Gender Research

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nebraskaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCornell Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationStockholm Environment Instituteen_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60986-2_8en_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.cipGENDERen_US
cg.subject.cipINCLUSIVE GROWTHen_US
cg.subject.cipIMPACT ASSESSMENTen_US
cg.subject.cipFOOD SYSTEMSen_US
cg.subject.cipSOCIAL AND NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES SNSen_US
cg.subject.cipNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender Equalityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No Povertyen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 10 - Reduced Inequalitiesen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero Hungeen_US
dc.contributor.authorCullen, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLefore, N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDebevec, L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSnyder, K.A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T19:52:51Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-10-30T19:52:51Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/158288en_US
dc.titleThe Tyranny of Tools: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Gender Researchen_US
dcterms.abstractThis chapter examines the trajectory of analytical frameworks and gender tools intended to understand and address the challenges and inequities that shape women’s engagement in agriculture. We argue that while a focus on tools in many agricultural development projects can help to identify barriers faced by women, it often does little to address the structural inequality in which women are embedded. We highlight the tendencies of tool-led gender analysis within agricultural projects to: (1) detach tools from their theoretical frameworks, (2) ignore the structural and socio-political obstacles to gender equality in specific contexts, and (3) view tools as silver bullets to address “gender problems” while primarily serving technical agendas. We argue that the co-option, sanitization and de-politicization of gender tools is partly the result of social scientists having to fit within institutional systems dominated by certain scientific logics, frameworks, disciplinary orientations, and social norms. We recommend that meaningful attempts to facilitate gender equality and women’s empowerment should be based on politically informed, contextualized understandings that are relevant to people’s lived realities, rather than concepts, tools, and data that are externally constructed and applied by outsiders to meet normative scientific, donor, and development agendas.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceExtensionen_US
dcterms.audienceFarmersen_US
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen_US
dcterms.audienceNGOsen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCullen, B.; Lefore, N.; Debevec, L.; Snyder, K. A. 2024. The Tyranny of Tools: The Politics of knowledge production in gender research. In Springer eBooks (pp. 137–166). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60986-2_8en_US
dcterms.issued2024-10-08en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectgender equalityen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten_US
dcterms.typeBook Chapteren_US

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