CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Riddle, Tamsyn |
|---|---|
| Title | Extractive Equalities: Conceptualizations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy |
| Summary | My thesis will explore the “post”-colonial relations of power of Canadian international development policies and programs. As a supposed leader on gender equality, Canada has implemented its Feminist International Assistance Policy to integrate gender equality concerns into its international development programs, and yet Canadian resource extraction companies operating abroad, continue to be linked to cases of sexual violence with little accountability. I will examine this contradiction through looking at how the work done by Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) serves to depoliticize and decontextualize sexual violence, and how this forms part of a broader project of coloniality. In doing so, I will examine how the policy defines and conceptualizes sexual and gender-based violence as part of Canada’s efforts to take a so-called “feminist” approach to international development and what work this conceptualization enables on behalf of the Canadian government. Drawing on interpretive and critical policy analysis, case studies of programs addressing sexual and gender-based violence funded after the implementation of the FIAP, and interviews with those affected by it, I will show how this policy employs ideas of gender equality and individualized, depoliticized understandings of sexual violence which create a benevolent image of Canada that erases the power dynamics that facilitate and enable sexual violence, as well as Canada’s role in perpetuating colonial global power inequalities . The broader contribution of this research will be to investigate how exactly neoliberal policy-making practices work to insulate governments from even feminist critique, and divert attention from structures of colonial capitalism towards narrow technical questions. |
| Supervisor | Sachseder, Julia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/riddle_tamsyn.pdf |
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