Género, desarrollo y políticas públicas
La doble discrepancia de las aristas del poder
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Abstract
Presently, international development organizations have adopted gender perspectives in all policy spheres as a transversal approach as a result of a process that has transited through different foci since the 1950s. Nonetheless, different studies have highlighted the fact that implementation is limited beyond the recurring discourses of governments, non-governmental organizations and funding agencies. We can speak of a discrepancy between rhetoric and practice around gender in development policies, a subject that lies on the edges of power. Furthermore, there is another discrepancy between policy analysis and a gender perspective, where we find little research that achieves a theoretical articulation between two traditions that somehow seem irreconcilable. This article aims to initiate a reflection on that which it identifies as a double discrepancy between gender and policies focused on the edges of power: the failure to integrate gender in development policies and the difficult theoretical articulation of gender within policy. Faced with this double discrepancy, the article proposes some points of convergence around an inclusion of power relations both as a goal of development policies and a policy analysis.
Contributor Notes
EDITH KAUFFER es Profesora-Investigadora en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)-Sureste. Lleva a cabo investigación sobre recursos hídricos transfronterizos, conflictos y cooperación, políticas del agua en el sur de México y América Central, con énfasis en el análisis de políticas públicas, el concepto de fronteras y la perspectiva de género. Fue responsable técnica (2003–2016) de la Red de Investigadores sobre Agua en la Frontera México-Guatemala-Belice (RISAF) y es co-coordinadora del grupo de trabajo “Gestión de recursos estratégicos, medio ambiente y sociedad” del Consorcio de Investigación Comparativa en Integración Regional y Cohesión Social (RISC, por sus siglas en inglés). Asimismo, es Editora Asociada de la revista científica Regions & Cohesion.