Gender equality in Norwegian International Cooperation for Development: some muddles around a category

• Grant number: 18/13402-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 03, 2018
• End date: March 02, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Júlio Assis Simões
• Grantee: Joaquim Pereira de Almeida Neto
• Supervisor: Nefissa Naguib
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/01712-5 - International cooperation, gender and indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon: ethnography of Norwegian development cooperation policies, BP.MS

Abstract

The present project proposes a research internship abroad as part of the FAPESP master's scholarship (Sage code process: 2017/0712-5). It intends to realize a research internship in the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Oslo aiming to deepen theoretical questions which endorse the master project in Brazil, as well as to get in touch with recent academic productions and bibliographical resources available at the institution. The main secondary objectives are: (1) investigate the specific uses of gender, as a disputed political category, both in recent academic analysis and in Norwegian public policies; (2) make a scholar incursion in the field of anthropology of development with special attention to the discussion about social problems constructions made by international cooperation agencies, as well as those relating to feminist and post-colonial studies and critical theories of development apparatuses. (AU)