Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers

When evoking development policies and projects, it is rare that Switzerland comes to mind. However the object of this text is a project conceived specifically for the women of the Swiss alpine valleys. This programme entitled parcoursArianna, aimed at the empowerment and stabilisation in their habit...

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Main Author: Thierry Amrein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2013-08-01
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rga/1980
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description When evoking development policies and projects, it is rare that Switzerland comes to mind. However the object of this text is a project conceived specifically for the women of the Swiss alpine valleys. This programme entitled parcoursArianna, aimed at the empowerment and stabilisation in their habitat of women considered greatly disadvantaged from the point of view of training and employment, due to their socio-geographical situation. The afore-mentioned objectives should have been attained thanks to the creation and deployment of an original “specifically feminine” micro-entrepreneurship within a local economic fabric essentially turned towards tourism.Starting from the results of a long-lasting anthropological field in the framework of this course of training, which also highlights the growing diversity of the populations in the Swiss alpine valleys, I question the fact that the initiators of this type of project implicitly make the women alone bear the responsibility and the charge of the new social dynamics which they attempt to initiate, without seriously taking into account the local norms of the sexual division of the tasks within the domestic sphere.
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Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
Revue de Géographie Alpine
development
mobility
gender
domestic sphere
Valais
title Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
title_full Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
title_fullStr Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
title_full_unstemmed Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
title_short Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers
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url https://journals.openedition.org/rga/1980
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