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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation of Feminist Knowledge in a Nordic Knowledge Regime: The Case of Gender Budgeting in Finland
Authors: Hanna Ylöstalo
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
Publication year: 2020
Journal: NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Journal acronym: NORA
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
First page : 126
Last page: 139
Number of pages: 14
ISSN: 0803-8740
eISSN: 1502-394X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2020.1727008(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46864174(external)
Knowledge has a growing role in contemporary politics and policy-making. As a response to new forms of governance and evidence-based policy-making, feminist knowledge has become an important device of gender equality policy. This article analyses the role, form, and producers of feminist knowledge in contemporary policy-making. It focuses on the depoliticizing as well as the repoliticising tendencies in feminist knowledge production. It takes as its focus the recent gender budgeting initiative in Finland. The article shows that the role of feminist knowledge is symbolic; that the preferred form of feminist knowledge is quantified knowledge; and that the credible producers of feminist knowledge are gender experts and economists. All these elements of feminist knowledge production are characterized by a constant movement between depoliticization and repoliticisation.
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