the thesis feeds into conversations about the future of feminism. It explores those accounts which include themes associated with the activists’ hybridisation between human rights and other global progress projects. The concluding section to this chapter will focus on how the examination of the research materials contributes to and strengthens global discourses existing in the literature about agency, knowledge and human rights language. It does women’s so by building links between them. As in Chapter Six, the analysis is primarily based on the interview transcriptions with the aim of developing and illustrating the elements within the taxonomy. The organisations who claimed to run programmes directed at women beneficiaries formed a subset of the original case studies. Broader categories are drawn within this second taxonomy compared with the first model to reflect these limitations. Activists were asked about their perceptions of human rights and gender women’s equality. accounts contain their understandings of these principles. Interviewees’ The analysis of the research materials led to the construction of a taxonomy of the deployment of human rights comprising four components. The four categories identify different perceptions of agency that were described as influencing the operationalisation of human rights and development principles. The first women’s three positions centre on the relationship between perceptions of external locus of agency and deployment of the human rights framework. The first of these women’s three positions in the taxonomy was based on the analysis of the West Bengal accounts. The distinctive characteristic of this component is the perception activists’ of local contexts as inhibiting the promotion of human rights. The second women’s element of the taxonomy was formed by the analysis of accounts in the activists’ West Bengal and London case studies. These interviewees portrayed the local cultural and institutional infrastructure as constraining the ability to operationalise programmes targeted at supporting victims of domestic violence. The relevance of human rights was perceived as providing the language with which to express injustices in these cases. The third element of the taxonomy identifies the function of rights as emerging from the articulated interplay between women’s empowerment schemes and perceived agency. The final category within the taxonomy is distinguished by an internal locus of agency which focuses on
the thesis feeds into conversations about the future of feminism. It explores those activists’ accounts which include themes associated with the hybridisation between human rights and other global progress projects. The concluding section to this chapter will focus on how the examination of the research materials contributes to and strengthens global discourses existing in the literature about women’s agency, knowledge and human rights language. It does so by building links between them. As in Chapter Six, the analysis is primarily based on the interview transcriptions with the aim of developing and illustrating the elements within the taxonomy. The organisations who claimed to run programmes directed at women beneficiaries formed a subset of the original case studies. Broader categories are drawn within this second taxonomy compared with the first model to reflect these limitations. Activists were asked about their perceptions of women’s human rights and gender equality. Interviewees’ accounts contain their understandings of these principles. The analysis of the research materials led to the construction of a taxonomy of the deployment of human rights comprising four components. The four categories identify different perceptions of agency that were described as influencing the operationalisation of women’s human rights and development principles. The first three positions centre on the relationship between perceptions of external locus of agency and deployment of the women’s human rights framework. The first of these three positions in the taxonomy was based on the analysis of the West Bengal activists’ accounts. The distinctive characteristic of this component is the perception of local contexts as inhibiting the promotion of women’s human rights. The second element of the taxonomy was formed by the analysis of activists’ accounts in the West Bengal and London case studies. These interviewees portrayed the local cultural and institutional infrastructure as constraining the ability to operationalise programmes targeted at supporting victims of domestic violence. The relevance of human rights was perceived as providing the language with which to express injustices in these cases. The third element of the taxonomy identifies the function of women’s rights as emerging from the articulated interplay between empowerment schemes and perceived agency. The final category within the taxonomy is distinguished by an internal locus of agency which focuses on
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