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Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini
Mini Dissertation (MSocSci (Gender Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/91320 Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini Nilsen, Alf Gunvald dlamini.thandwa@gmail.com Dlamini, Thandwa Sinenhlanhla UCTD Development Studies Gender Studies Cultural and Social Anthropology Mini Dissertation (MSocSci (Gender Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2022. This study focuses on the constructions of women’s economic empowerment in microfinance between World Vision, its partners, and boMake. The study adopts an ethnographic stance and examines the ideologies and governance practices of World Vision’s microfinance empowerment programmes and positions the everyday interactions of women within these programmes. This investigation draws on Foucauldian feminist theory, rooted in Foucault’s notions of governmentality. The study draws on 34 interviews with women, from 6 of World Vision’s self-help groups, 6 of World Vision’s personnel, 1 former World Vision employee and 4 of World Vision’s partners. Using thematic analysis, the dissertation presents a two-part analysis which derives themes from the narratives of World Vision, its partners, and women respectively. The study finds that World Vision seeks to construct women in its microfinance empowerment programmes as entrepreneurial subjects who are responsible for governing themselves on issues of state inflicted economic and intimate violence. However, the study finds that boMake both accept and reject these constructions, and continuously invent their own formula of empowerment, which speak to their experiences, desires, newfound interests, and aspirations. These truths present themselves as subversive strategies towards World Vision’s microfinance interventions, and Eswatini’s integration with the neoliberal global market economy. These creative strategies are based on boMake’s dynamic subjectivities as wives and mothers, who uphold both pious and cultural values of respect, virtue, gratitude, patience, and honour, which neither produce an autonomous nor subservient feminist self. This study finds that boMake’s constructions of women’s empowerment reincarnate themselves along with mutations of microfinance, functioning to shape each other in development discourse. The study highlights the limits and possibilities of feminist self-governance in Eswatini and broader studies that seek to investigate governance of women in global development industry in the global South. Sociology MSocSci (Gender Studies) Unrestricted 2023-07-10T13:14:56Z 2023-07-10T13:14:56Z 2023-09-15 2022 Mini Dissertation * S2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91320 10.25403/UPresearchdata.23295026 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Development Studies Gender Studies Cultural and Social Anthropology Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title | Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title_full | Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title_fullStr | Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title_short | Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini |
| title_sort | constructions of women s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse a case study of world vision s women s self help group programme in eswatini |
| topic | UCTD Development Studies Gender Studies Cultural and Social Anthropology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91320 |