Scholars' Stories
Translating Gender, Translating Empowerment - Reflection 3
What is “empowerment?” A buzzword common in the human development and NGO worlds, I worked this summer in a Jordanian NGO’s department of tamkin almar’a, or gender and female empowerment.
Step 2: The Interviews
In July, I had the opportunity to interview residents of Singapore and mural artists. When I first went into the process, I thought it would be a straightforward discussion, and that my interviews would yield similar data. Surprisingly, it didn't--and boy, am I glad.
