@article{7632105ec9b24f52acb106ea3ef14584,
title = "Depoliticisation and the Changing Trajectories of Grassroots Women's Leadership in Peru: From Empowerment to Service Delivery?",
abstract = "This paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women's organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisation and depoliticisation of grassroots activism and providing new empirical material on gendered experiences of grassroots leadership. The paper recognises the increasing dominance of neoliberal management mechanisms but argues that the depoliticisation of grassroots women leaders is not simply a straightforward trickledown of neoliberal development practices but is produced through the interplay of local socio-political processes and personal biographies of activism with more macro-level development trends and discourses.",
keywords = "women's leadership, professionalisation, Peru, empowerment, community organisations, grassroots, depoliticisation",
author = "Katy Jenkins",
note = "Este art{\'i}culo examina c{\'o}mo las pr{\'a}cticas de liderazgo han sido negociadas y han cambiado en el tiempo en el contexto de un proyecto de base de promoci{\'o}n de salud en Lima, Per{\'u}. Rastreando tales trayectorias en el contexto de la evoluci{\'o}n de la organizaci{\'o}n de mujeres en Per{\'u}, se establece un an{\'a}lisis m{\'a}s amplio de los cambiantes papeles de las mujeres de base en el desarrollo de los proyectos, alimentando los debates sobre la profesionalizaci{\'o}n y despolitizaci{\'o}n del activismo de base, lo que provee nuevo material emp{\'i}rico sobre las experiencias de g{\'e}nero en el liderazgo de base. El art{\'i}culo reconoce el creciente dominio de los mecanismos neoliberales de funcionamiento pero se{\~n}ala que la despolitizaci{\'o}n de las lideresas de base no es simplemente el resultado directo de pr{\'a}cticas neoliberales de desarrollo sino que {\'e}sta se produce en el rejuego de procesos sociopol{\'i}ticos locales y las experiencias personales de activismo que operan al interior de posiciones y discursos de desarrollo a un nivel m{\'a}s macro. O artigo analisa, no contexto de um projeto popular pelo desenvolvimento da sa{\'u}de em Lima, no Peru, a maneira pela qual pr{\'a}ticas de lideran{\c c}a tem sido negociadas e se desenvolvido ao longo do tempo. Essas trajet{\'o}rias s{\~a}o tra{\c c}adas no contexto da evolu{\c c}{\~a}o da organiza{\c c}{\~a}o feminina. A mudan{\c c}a nos pap{\'e}is exercidos pelas mulheres das bases trabalhando em projetos de desenvolvimento informa uma an{\'a}lise mais ampla, alimentando debates acerca da profissionaliza{\c c}{\~a}o e despolitiza{\c c}{\~a}o do ativismo popular, e fornecendo dados emp{\'i}ricos relativos {\`a}s experi{\^e}ncias de lideran{\c c}as populares relacionadas ao genero. O dom{\'i}nio crescente de mecanismos de ger{\^e}ncia neoliberais {\'e} reconhecido, entretanto argumenta-se que a despolitiza{\c c}{\~a}o de l{\'i}deres populares femininas n{\~a}o representa a simples percola{\c c}{\~a}o de pr{\'a}ticas neoliberais de desenvolvimento; outro fator respons{\'a}vel {\'e} a intera{\c c}{\~a}o de processos s{\'o}cio-pol{\'i}ticos locais e biografias pessoais do ativismo com tend{\^e}ncias e discursos desenvolvimentistas em n{\'i}vel macro.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1017/S0022216X11000046",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "299--326",
journal = "Journal of Latin American Studies",
issn = "0022-216X",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "02",
}
