Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan

Joanna Pares Hoare (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
9789004461239 (ISBN)

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Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan draws on feminist critiques and ethnographic data to interrogate how development has been implemented in Kyrgyzstan since 1991.

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about the sudden expansion of the ‘developing world’, as the populations of many of the former Soviet republics were abruptly plunged into poverty and international development agencies rushed to their aid. In this account of development intervention since 1991 in Kyrgyzstan, one of these republics, Joanna Pares Hoare draws on feminist critiques to chart how concepts of gender equality, civil society, and activism came to be instrumentalised in development interventions in the post-Soviet space. Ethnographic data gathered through interviews and observation with employees and volunteers in local NGOs provides further insight into what this has meant for activists in Kyrgyzstan who are striving for progressive social change.

Joanna Pares Hoare, PhD (2014), SOAS University of London, works independently as a research consultant in international development. She has published articles on gender and activism in Kyrgyzstan, most recently in the edited volume Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities (Richard C.M. Mole, ed., Routledge, 2019).

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

1 A Note on Central Asian Women

2 Methodology

3 Outline

2 Gender and Development in Soviet Kyrgyzstan

1 Women in Pre-Soviet Central Asia

2 The Soviet Development Project in Central Asia

3 Gender Equality in the Soviet Union Post-Stalin

4 Gender Equality and the Gendered Social Contract in the Kirgiz SSR

5 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Transition Period

6 Conclusion

3 Development and Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan

1 Theories of Citizenship

2 Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society

3 Civil Society and Citizenship in Development

4 Civil Society and Development in Kyrgyzstan

5 Conclusion

4 Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan: Supporting Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

1 Gender and Women’s Rights in Development

2 Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Development in Kyrgyzstan

3 Conclusion

5 Gender-Focused NGO s in Bishkek

1 Gender-Focused NGO s in Bishkek

2 Case Studies

3 Alignments and Tensions among Gender-Focused NGO s

4 Hierarchies of Age, Language, and Access to Donors

5 Conclusion

6 Gender and Activism in Kyrgyzstan

1 Active Citizenship and Civic Engagement in Kyrgyzstan

2 Women and Civil Society

3 What Counts as Activism?

4 So, Would You Call Yourself a Feminist?

5 Conclusion

7 Activist-Professionals in Gender-Focused Development in Kyrgyzstan

1 The NGO Elite in Kyrgyzstan

2 Whose Agenda?

3 Links with Beneficiaries and Grassroots Communities

4 The Possibility of Transgressive Service Delivery

5 De-Politicisation of Activism

6 Conclusion

8 Conclusions

1 The Limits of Civil Society?

2 Sustainability of Gender-Focused Activism

3 Beyond Professional Activism

4 Gendered Civil Society

5 Meanings of Citizenship

6 Using Gender

7 Looking Forward

Appendix: Donors and International Organisations in Kyrgyzstan, as of August 2009

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Inner Asia Book Series ; 13
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	607 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9789004461239 / 9789004461239
Zustand	Neuware