‘Implementing gender equality’ - The work of women’s rights organizations in Georgia
(2018) SIMV21 20181Graduate School
Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
- Abstract
- Georgia has through the past 25 years been undergoing changes characterized by rapid transformations and is now a society in a large development. In this thesis, I apply a critical Marxist perspective to the case of women’s rights organizations in Georgia and what characterizes the relations they make with respectively the Georgian government and the Swedish donor organization Kvinna till Kvinna. I research this topic and specific case with the historical and sociopolitical context of Georgia taken into consideration in order to situate the research. I do this mainly through interviews complimented with participant observations at the women’s rights organizations’ work places. Through this research, I find that the relations that the... (More)
- Georgia has through the past 25 years been undergoing changes characterized by rapid transformations and is now a society in a large development. In this thesis, I apply a critical Marxist perspective to the case of women’s rights organizations in Georgia and what characterizes the relations they make with respectively the Georgian government and the Swedish donor organization Kvinna till Kvinna. I research this topic and specific case with the historical and sociopolitical context of Georgia taken into consideration in order to situate the research. I do this mainly through interviews complimented with participant observations at the women’s rights organizations’ work places. Through this research, I find that the relations that the women’s rights organizations engaged in with the government are affected by symbolic power and in some cases symbolic violence. The relation between the women’s rights organizations and Kvinna till Kvinna is affected by a conscious and outspoken symbolic power, but no symbolic violence is found. Furthermore the women’s rights organizations tend to aim strongly for possession of social capital. (Less)
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- author
- Højland Skov, Amalie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMV21 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Women’s rights organizations, NGO, Georgia, power relations, network, strategy, gender equality, South Caucasus
- language
- English
- id
- 8947646
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-27 12:20:00
- date last changed
- 2018-06-27 12:20:00
@misc{8947646, abstract = {{Georgia has through the past 25 years been undergoing changes characterized by rapid transformations and is now a society in a large development. In this thesis, I apply a critical Marxist perspective to the case of women’s rights organizations in Georgia and what characterizes the relations they make with respectively the Georgian government and the Swedish donor organization Kvinna till Kvinna. I research this topic and specific case with the historical and sociopolitical context of Georgia taken into consideration in order to situate the research. I do this mainly through interviews complimented with participant observations at the women’s rights organizations’ work places. Through this research, I find that the relations that the women’s rights organizations engaged in with the government are affected by symbolic power and in some cases symbolic violence. The relation between the women’s rights organizations and Kvinna till Kvinna is affected by a conscious and outspoken symbolic power, but no symbolic violence is found. Furthermore the women’s rights organizations tend to aim strongly for possession of social capital.}}, author = {{Højland Skov, Amalie}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{‘Implementing gender equality’ - The work of women’s rights organizations in Georgia}}, year = {{2018}}, }