Building back better? Rethinking gender and recovery in the time of COVID-19

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete
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Amid growing concerns regarding how the COVID-19 crisis is derailing the important gains made in advancing gender equality and women empowerment over the years, calls to integrate gender perspectives in ‘building back better’ from the pandemic have been heightened (Azcona et al., 2021; OHCHR, 2021). These calls are not new but have been a staple of discourses around recovery and reconstruction across different contexts marked by disaster, conflict and other forms of crises. Popularised by former US President Bill Clinton in his capacity as UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, ‘build back better’ has since been a normative principle adopted by the international humanitarian community (Clinton, 2006). It denotes creating a new state of normalcy: that is, rebuilding is no longer thought of as bouncing back but bouncing forward to a new and improved state. What a ‘better’ transformation looks like is of course a matter of interpretation and is highly contentious. In this article, I focus on how gender figures in imaginations of building a ‘better’ post-pandemic future. To do so, I draw on insights from previous research on women’s experiences of postdisaster reconstruction in the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan (Alburo-Cañete, 2021a, 2021b) and highlight opportunities and challenges in achieving the transformation desired in attempts to rebuild from the pandemic, focussing on the notion of care.
重建得更好?新冠肺炎时代的性别与康复反思
随着人们越来越担心新冠肺炎危机如何破坏多年来在促进性别平等和赋予妇女权力方面取得的重要成果,将性别观点纳入从疫情中“重建得更好”的呼声越来越高(Azcona et al.,2021;人权高专办,2021)。这些呼吁并不新鲜,但一直是以灾难、冲突和其他形式危机为标志的不同背景下围绕复苏和重建的主要讨论。美国前总统比尔·克林顿以联合国海啸灾后恢复特使的身份广受欢迎,“重建得更好”已成为国际人道主义界采用的规范原则(克林顿,2006年)。它意味着创造一种新的常态:也就是说,重建不再被认为是反弹,而是向前反弹到一个新的、改善的状态。“更好”的转变看起来是什么样子当然是一个解释问题,并且极具争议。在这篇文章中,我关注的是在建设一个“更美好”的后疫情未来的想象中,性别是如何塑造的。为此,我借鉴了之前对台风“海燕”(Alburo Cañete,2021a、2021b)后菲律宾妇女灾后重建经历的研究的见解,并强调了实现从疫情中重建所需转变的机遇和挑战,重点关注护理的概念。
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Global Social Policy
Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
6.70%
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41
期刊介绍: Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.
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