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| Title: | The Discourse of Maendeleo and the Politics of Women's Participation on Mount Kilimanjaro |
| Author: | Mercer, Claire |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Development and Change |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | January |
| Pages: | 101-127 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | social inequality Chaga development women's organizations Women's Issues Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government organizations Cultural Roles Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00242 |
| Abstract: | Studies of participatory development and empowerment often fail to place people's actions and motivations within their wider cultural, social, political and economic context. Drawing on fieldwork carried out among Chagga village-based women's groups on Mount Kilimanjaro,Tanzania, in 1996 and 1997, this article deconstructs the dominant discourse of development ('maendeleo') to show how women's participation in their local organizations is used as a strategy to boost their social status and financial gains. Local, national and global discourses on development, modernity and gender are reappropriated by Chagga men and women to produce a normative Chagga developmental subjectivity which women can demonstrate by participating in women's groups. The over-representation of better-off and higher-status women in these groups suggests that, in excluding the poorest women, participation in women's groups is serving to legitimate, and perpetuate, existing inequalities within Chagga society. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
