Discourses on Technology Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Gender Mainstreaming vs. Local Knowledge

Newsom, Victoria Ann; Cassara, Catherine; Lengel, Lara

doi:10.1080/10510974.2011.534973

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“…Discourse analyses of policy have contributed important insights into the types of conflict that occur between gender policy discourses and local understanding of gender issues. For example, Newsom and colleagues’ (2011) analysis of the United Nations’ discourses on gender in technology policy points to their incompatibility with local knowledge drawn on by women’s organisations in the Middle East and north Africa. In a similar vein, Seckinelgin (2009) writes of the homogenising tendency of the categories used in global HIV/AIDS activism, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), and the limits of these discursive frames in representing local sexualities.…”

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Conflicting policy narratives: Moving beyond culture in identifying barriers to gender policy in South Africa

Mannell

2014

Critical Social Policy

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This paper explores barriers to gender policy implementation arising from the narratives framing gender as a policy issue. Through examining the influence of gender policy narratives on practitioners, it challenges those who represent policy failures as the result of unsupportive cultural contexts. The paper draws on Fraser’s (1995, 2005; Fraser and Honneth, 2003) conceptualisation of recognition and redistribution to highlight tensions between three different gender policy narratives: (1) gender as instrumental for development; (2) gender as women’s rights and empowerment; and (3) gender as relations of power requiring personal transformation. Interviews with 32 gender practitioners in 26 South African non-governmental organisations and observations of meetings between these organisations show how these narratives lead to unhelpful conflicts between practitioners. These conflicts inhibit both the uptake of gender policy recommendations and collaboration between practitioners in ways that undermine efforts to address gender inequalities in the South African context.

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Conflicting policy narratives: Moving beyond culture in identifying barriers to gender policy in South Africa

Mannell

2014

Critical Social Policy

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights through a screen: on technology and accessibility in the Arab region

El Fakahany,

Ibrahim

2024

Oxford Open Digital Health

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In the Arab Region, the availability of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) resources is hindered by structural sociocultural barriers. In response to these challenges, youth and activists have turned to digital platforms such as websites, blogs, and social media accounts to improve access to SRHR information and services. The coalescence of such digital platforms has created a complimentary social space that exists to improve the sought for an equal, accessible, and empowering SRHR environment. Drawing from Asef Bayat’s concept of social non-movements, this research analyzes SRHR in repressive and conservative settings within the Arab region. The methodology employed includes a digital ethnography on SRHR-related online platforms and an online anonymous survey with young Arab individuals. Through the analysis, it becomes evident that online mobilization efforts may be framed as social non-movements and the role of such digital platforms is imperative to the improvement of youth’s SRHR. Recommendations for improvement include prioritizing comprehensive sexuality education through reformation of curricula, normalizing SRHR and engaging communities in locally and culturally sensitive discourses, disseminating SRHR through media and outreach programs, enhancing accessibility and support, creating more cohesive networks of support and knowledge, and promoting trusted SRHR services and platforms. The coupling between the online space, which has proven to fill in gaps that exist socially, with the formal healthcare system is bound to produce strides in the advocacy for gender equality and equitable access to healthcare in the region.

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Communication in Organizations

Keyton

2017

Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav.

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This article focuses on the study of organizational communication, which is a dominant subarea of communication scholarship as recognized by the National Communication Association (NCA) and the International Communication Association (ICA). Because communication, and organizational communication as a subarea, is multiperspectival, this article first defines communication and then organizational communication. Next, the article describes the philosophical perspectives of organizational communication. The next section points to specific areas of individual-, dyadic-, group-, and organizational-level communication research in which communication and organizational psychology and organizational behavior (OPOB) share similar interests. The article concludes by describing practical implications of this area of scholarship (i.e., what can organizations and individuals do with the findings of organizational communication scholarship) and by identifying promising areas of organizational communication study.

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Discourses on Technology Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Gender Mainstreaming vs. Local Knowledge

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Conflicting policy narratives: Moving beyond culture in identifying barriers to gender policy in South Africa

Conflicting policy narratives: Moving beyond culture in identifying barriers to gender policy in South Africa

Sexual and reproductive health and rights through a screen: on technology and accessibility in the Arab region

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