Building back better? – negotiating normative boundaries of gender mainstreaming and post-tsunami reconstruction in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11427136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marjaana Jauhola (0000-0001-9974-0778, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-50 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210509990490 |
| OpenAlex | W2162477586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article focuses on gender mainstreaming policies and advocacy on gender equality in the post-tsunami context in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. Through the analysis, this article illustrates how gender mainstreaming policy documents and gender advocacy of the provincial and central government, when drawing from sex/gender division and binary of genders, reproduce heteronormative boundaries. By focusing on details, I argue that the image of the heteronormative nuclear family participates in normalising other identity categories; such as urban and middle-class. I also provide examples of how simultaneous to the production of dominant norms, gender advocacy challenges heteronormativity and norms governing heterosexuality and actively question the dominant gender norms. Drawing from postcolonial feminist and recent queer critiques, I argue that advocacy that solely focuses on gender and/or sexuality reduces human bodies and their desires to simplistic stick figures. Thus, it remains blind to other forms of violence, such as global economic and political frameworks that define ‘building back better’ primarily as recovery and rehabilitation of economy, assets and labour force
Context (archaeology · Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Geography · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Mainstreaming · Normative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law
Heteronormativity and Sexuality
Navigating an inconvenient difference in antagonistic contexts
Profoundly Decolonizing? Reflections on a Transfeminist Perspective of International Relations
Smashing containers, queering the international through collaging
The coloniality of neoliberal biopolitics
Dayah on the Move
Women after the tsunami
Contending with Paradox
Why is there no Queer International Theory
Building back better' is neoliberal post-disaster reconstruction
| Citations per year | 0.77 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |