Gender in futures: A study of gender and feminist papers published in Futures, 1969–2009
In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 9, S. 1029-1039
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In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 9, S. 1029-1039
This thesis contributes and deepens knowledge on long-term planning for sustainable development through exploring environmental justice and gender discourses in planning and futures studies. It also suggests ways of working with those issues. Environmental justice is explored through discussions with planners in Stockholm, Sweden, and through looking at images of future Stockholm and the environmental justice implications of these. These studies show how environmental justice issues can be manifested in a Swedish urban context and discuss how sustainable development and environmental justice can be increased, operationalised and politicised in planning. One key contribution of the thesis is in identifying the need to address procedural and outcomes values in both planning and futures studies. Gender discourses are explored through analysing papers published in the journal Futures and through an examination of Swedish Regional Growth Programmes. The feminist criticism of futures studies mainly relates to the field being male-dominated and male-biased, which means that the future is seen as already colonised by men, that futures studies generally do not work with feminist issues or issues of particular relevance for women, and that they often lack a critical and reflexive perspective. There is therefore a call for feminist futures as a contrast to hegemonic male and Western technology-orientated futures. The case of the Swedish Regional Growth Programmes shows that gender inequality is often viewed as a problem of unequal rights and possibilities. This liberal view on gender equality has made it rather easy for gender equality advocates to voice demands, e.g. for the inclusion of both women and men in decision-making processes, but the traditional male norm is not challenged. If a different response is required, other ways of describing the problem of gender inequalities must be facilitated. One way to open up different ways of describing the problem and to describe desirable futures could be the use of ...
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In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 43, Heft 9, S. 1029-1040
ISSN: 0016-3287
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ISSN: 1468-2427
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ISSN: 0309-1317
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In: Futures, Band 44, Heft 10, S. 914-922
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 44, Heft 10, S. 914-922
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 413-423
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 413-424
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 151-166
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 498-512
In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 497
In: Futures, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 1-15
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 497-498
ISSN: 0016-3287