North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse

Pohjaten Foucault’laiseen tulkintaan tiedon ja vallan suhteesta sekä Fergusonin teoriaan kehityskoneistosta (deve lopment apparatus), ja suhtautuen kriittisesti niin ikään ilmastonmuutokseen, sukupuoleen kuin kehitykseen, tut kielma selvittää kriittisen diskurssianalyysin keinoin, kuinka YK:n tuotta...

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Main Author: Antikainen, Noora
Other Authors: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
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Published: 2024
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description Pohjaten Foucault’laiseen tulkintaan tiedon ja vallan suhteesta sekä Fergusonin teoriaan kehityskoneistosta (deve lopment apparatus), ja suhtautuen kriittisesti niin ikään ilmastonmuutokseen, sukupuoleen kuin kehitykseen, tut kielma selvittää kriittisen diskurssianalyysin keinoin, kuinka YK:n tuottamat ilmastonmuutosta, sukupuolten välistä tasa-arvoa ja kehitysinterventiota koskevat diskurssit uusintavat globaalin pohjoisen ja etelän välistä epätasa-arvoista valtasuhdetta. Tutkimuksessa löytyi kolme vastuuseen liittyvää päädiskurssia: (1) Vastuun välttely / sivuuttaminen, (2) Vastuun ottaminen sekä (3) Vastuun langettaminen. (2) Vastuun ottamisen diskurssi koostuu kahdesta aladiskurssista: (2.1) Alarmistinen / Pakkodiskurssi, jossa naiset saavat uhrin subjektiposition, sekä (2.2) Velvollisuus / Auktoriteettidis kurssi, jossa YK saa suojelijan / pelastajan subjektiposition. (3) Vastuun langettamisen diskurssissa naiset saavat myös toisen, muutosvaikuttajan subjektiposition. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin, että (1) Vastuun välttelyn / sivuuttamisen diskurssi ylläpitää passiivisesti pohjoisen ja ete län välistä epätasa-arvoista valtasuhdetta vältellen aihetta ilmastonmuutoksen syistä ja aiheuttajista, sekä siirtämällä huomiota pois suurimmasta syyllisestä, kun taas (2) Vastuun ottamisen diskurssi uusintaa tehokkaasti etelän riippu vuutta pohjoisesta tyrkyttämällä kehitysinterventiota etelään. (3) Vastuun langettamisen diskurssi, taas, nimensä mu kaisesti, langettaa kieroutuneesti vastuun ilmastonmuutokseen sopeutumisesta, sekä kehitystavoitteiden saavuttami sesta, suurimmalle kärsijälle, etelän naisille. Tapa, jolla diskurssit uusintavat globaalin pohjoisen ja etelän epätasa-arvoista valtadynamiikkaa, on esimerkki siitä, kuinka käsitteellisen kehityskoneiston (conceptual development apparatus) hyväntahtoisella kehitystyöllä, tiedon tuotannon muodossa, voi olla piileviä, tahattomia ja haitallisia seurauksia, jotka uusintavat alistussuhteita ja tosiasi assa palvelevat vallassa olevien etua. Based on Foucauldian theory on the relationship between knowledge and power, and Ferguson’s theorizations on the development apparatus, and taking a critical approach to climate change, gender and development overall, the study examines, by means of Critical Discourse Analysis, how the discourses produced by the United Nations, in the con text of climate change, gender equality and development intervention, reproduce the unequal North-South power dynamic. Three main discourses related to responsibility were found, namely (1) Avoiding / Ignoring Responsibility, (2) Tak ing Responsibility, and (3) Imposing Responsibility. (2) Taking Responsibility Discourse is comprised of two sub discourses: the (2.1) Alarmist / Necessity Discourse, with a subject position for women as victims, and the (2.2) Obligation / Authority Discourse, with a subject position of protector / savior for the UN. Another subject position for women as change agents is also included in the (3) Imposing Responsibility Discourse. The study found that the (1) Avoiding / Ignoring Responsibility Discourse serves to passively sustain the unequal North-South power dynamic by avoiding the issue of who and what causes climate change and by shifting attention away from the biggest culprit, while the (2) Taking Responsibility Discourse effectively reinforces the South’s de pendency on the North by imposing development intervention on the South. Lastly, the (3) Imposing Responsibility Discourse perversely imposes the responsibility of climate change adaptation, and achieving development goals, onto the biggest sufferer, women in the South. The way the discourses reproduce the unequal North-South power dynamic is an example of how benevolent devel opment action of the conceptual development apparatus, in the form of knowledge production, can have latent, un intended and adverse consequences of reproducing subordination and actually serving the interests of the powerful.
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title North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
title_full North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
title_fullStr North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
title_full_unstemmed North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
title_short North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
title_sort north south power dynamics in united nations climate change and gender equality discourse
title_txtP North-South Power Dynamics in United Nations Climate Change and Gender Equality Discourse
topic Global inequality global governance power knowledge United Nations climate change gender equality empowerment critical discourse analysis Master's Degree Programme in Development, Education and International Cooperation 212 ilmastonmuutokset tasa-arvo kehitysmaat kestävä kehitys ilmastopolitiikka valta kehitysyhteistyö sukupuoli eriarvoisuus diskurssi climate changes equality (values) developing countries sustainable development climate policy power (societal objects) development cooperation gender inequality discourse
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