Haltrup, Kuluk Møller

Kowalik, Klaudia

Madsen, Amalie Holst

Williams, Mira Alexandra Klokmose

This paper sets out critically engage with the business case approach in development through acase study of the Girl Effect. Contextualizing the business case within wider developmentinitiatives pertaining to women and gender equality, the paper adopt a pluralist feministunderstanding to account for how the business case, from a feminist perspective, frameswomen’s role in development. Inspired by Carol Bacchi’s ‘what’s the problem represented to beapproach’, framing theory, and the concept of buzzwords, the authors adopt a broad discursiveapproach to the analysis, which in turn uncover the assumptions and silences of the businesscase’s framing the female subject’s participation in economic development. A reflexive analysisconcludes that the market oriented rationale, which informs the business case approach,proposes simplified solutions to complex development process. But also, that through the reappropriationof feminist terminology, and the return to the lived experiences of women,feminism offers important nuances and insights to the development agenda

Struggle for interpretation. A feminist inquiry into the business case.

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