Gaslighting and dispelling: Experiences of non-governmental organization workers in navigating gendered corruption

IF 5.4 3区 材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL
Sanela Smolović Jones
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Abstract

How does corruption adopt gendered guises and how do women combat it in practice? Theorizing from the basis of a 30-month ethnography within a women’s non-governmental organization (NGO), the article proposes gaslighting as a way of interpreting gendered corruption, owing to its elusive but pernicious nature. Gaslighting is posited as the deployment of tactics to make women doubt their sanity and as a means of securing personal advantage. Gaslighting triggers embodied forms of struggle, and the article offers the notion of dispelling as denoting the persistent, patient and reiterative counter-practice of NGO practitioners to assert democratic norms of liberty and equality. The article provides rich empirical insight both into how corruption is enacted through the citing of patriarchal norms and how such norms are contested through the bodies of practitioners. These insights are important at a time when governments globally claim gender equality while undermining it in practice.
毒气和驱散:非政府组织工作人员应对性别腐败的经验
腐败是如何披上性别外衣的,妇女在实践中又是如何打击腐败的?文章以在一个妇女非政府组织(NGO)中进行的为期 30 个月的人种学研究为基础,提出了 "毒气疗法"(gaslighting)这一解释性别腐败的方法,因为它具有难以捉摸但又有害的性质。文章认为,"毒气 "是一种让妇女怀疑自己是否理智的策略,也是一种确保个人利益的手段。毒气引发了具体形式的斗争,文章提出了 "驱散 "的概念,指的是非政府组织从业者为维护自由和平等的民主准则而采取的坚持不懈、耐心和反复的反击做法。文章提供了丰富的实证洞察力,揭示了腐败是如何通过引用父权制规范来实施的,以及这种规范是如何通过从业人员的身体来抗争的。在全球各国政府一边宣称性别平等,一边又在实践中破坏性别平等的时候,这些见解非常重要。
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ACS Applied Energy Materials
ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry
CiteScore
10.30
自引率
6.20%
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1368
期刊介绍: ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.
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