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Mapping the complexities and highlighting the dangers: The global drive to end FGM in the UK and Sudan

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  • Nafisa Bedri

    (International & External Relations Office, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan)

  • Tamsin Bradley

    (University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry Street, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)

Abstract

This article maps out the UK Department for International Development’s (DfID) global push to end the practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). In particular, it looks at how the various components aim to link together filling evidence gaps and seeking to identify what works to finally end this brutal practice. Throughout the article, we voice a caution that if the numerous programmes emerging are not shaped by grass-roots experiences of FGM, and specifically by local change agents, there is a real danger that this opportunity will fail. In highlighting this danger, we present the viewpoint of community groups and local activists in the United Kingdom and also Sudan. We place these voices within the complex web of interventions that comprise the Free Sudan from the FGM/C programme. If not sufficiently coordinated and responsive to communities, it simply will not work. To emphasize this caution, we draw on a variety of theories that help us understand how discourses around FGM have emerged and intertwine. We also draw on theory to highlight an over reliance on a constructed image of a suffering FGM victim which makes it difficult for local activists to be heard.

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  • Nafisa Bedri & Tamsin Bradley, 2017. "Mapping the complexities and highlighting the dangers: The global drive to end FGM in the UK and Sudan," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 17(1), pages 24-37, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:24-37
    DOI: 10.1177/1464993416674299
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    1. Tamsin Bradley & Zara Martin & Rajni Palriwala, 2021. "Conceptualising Subjectivities and Rationalities in Understanding Gendered Violence: Processes of Social and Cultural Change," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 21(2), pages 181-195, April.

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