ABSTRACT

This book offers a critical analysis of gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami context in Indonesia. Aiming to challenge the terms of the debate in gender mainstreaming and disaster reconstruction efforts, Jauhola offers an important contribution for the discussion of what ‘feminisms and disasters’ could be. The work provides an in-depth analysis of three governmental practices of gender mainstreaming: the use of the concept pair sex/gender; the use of gender analysis and the use of project management tools and local subversion that challenges the potential normative violence of gender mainstreaming.

Providing feminist intersectional reading of gender mainstreaming the book aims to illustrate that this framework does not lack political alternatives, but rather, it offers an alternative focus for feminism and for the re-conceptualisation of ‘political’, and provides tools for practitioners of aid aiming to come to grips with the complexity of gender equality policy agenda and its potential violent social consequences in global politics.

Drawing on extensive field research in Aceh, this text is one of the first book length studies, and thus provides a significant addition to Indonesian literatures on intersectional analysis of gender, religion, heteronormativity, and feminist subversive practice. It is a vital resource for those interested in understanding global interconnections of localised disaster and conflict reconstruction.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

‘Build Aceh back better'

chapter |17 pages

Becoming better men and women

Gender mainstreaming as a technique of governmentality

chapter |24 pages

Political landscapes of gender mainstreaming

Intelligibility of gender in Aceh

chapter |31 pages

‘This is gender!' 1

Normalized sex/gender divide and subversive gender

chapter |51 pages

Women Can Do It Too!

Governing post-tsunami gender norms through the radiowaves

chapter |31 pages

Project managerial practices of gender mainstreaming

Governing spatial and temporal landscapes of post-tsunami Aceh

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

Is Aceh built back better?