8e conférence internationale de l’Association Européenne des études sud-est asiatiques (EUROSEAS)

Événements

Abigaël Pesses, directrice adjointe de l’IRASEC interviendra avec Élodie Coffre (boursière IRASEC) le 13 août 2015 à la conférence internationale de l’Euroseas organisée à l’Université de Vienne du 11 au 14 août 2015.

Panel : Are there Women’s Practices ? Questioning Women’s Activities in Southeast Asian Societies

Based on ethnographic data collected among Karen communities and indigenous associations of Chiang Mai province within the past 15 years, this presentation aims at questioning the opportunities and limits of women’s empowerment through the strategies driven by development actors into the local arena. 

By integrating gender issues in the development discourse, the role and abilities assigned to indigenous women has been embedded into national and global political frames : from state integration policies that emphasize women’s role as a pillar of the household economy to the contest of world environmental policies and the promotion of women’s indigenous skills in the safeguarding of biodiversity.

As observed, this empowerment is continuously negotiated within an institutionalized process which categorizes gender field and people. This historical and localized process activates new dynamics in social organization paving the way to a range of actors’ strategies in development policies. This paper will question how the promotion of the “locality” became one of the main human and ideological resource, by mobilizing together women and development actors in civil society debate and economic local arena.