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| Title | Masculinities and Water Profession |
| Group | Water Resources Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Esha Shah |
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| Contact info | esha.shah@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/01/01 |
| Description | Country: Anywhere
Period: Flexible Project description It is forcefully argued that “irrigation world continues to be man’s world” because the professional irrigation domain is heavily male dominated. Most irrigation professionals experts, planners, managers, engineers, policymakers are men. It is further argued that not only that the physical presence of men is pertinent for the prestige of the profession, but that the individual engineers need to continuously display a specific version of manhood resulting in exclusion of “other” men and women to become recognised and respected as water professionals. The issue of masculinity resulting in the exclusion thus is a matter of power. Through the socialisation of generations of engineers and bureaucrats the masculinity and professional irrigation identity are made to belong to each other, which also results in the “bureaucratic tradition” that associates decision making and power with masculinity. This research could be based on ethnographic investigation of how hydraulic bureaucracies function in any part of the world, in the South or the North, including in the Netherlands - In what way masculine norms influence the way men and women function as planners and engineers - Do men engineers/planners do their work, acquire knowledge, differently than their female counterparts? How? Why? - How do women engineers in water profession function in men’s world? It would also be a Desk study based on the readings of auto biographies or life writings of famous (male and female) engineers and planners. |
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