This article studies the experiences of gender experts in international institutions of governance and examines their interactions with multiple actors in the governance system as they negotiate their authority to act as experts. Moving beyond binaries, such as those on the inside of hegemonic institutions versus those on the outside, or co‐optation versus activism, the analysis uses processes of instrumentalization as a vantage point to lay out the multiple paths emerging in these politics of engagement. The article frames politics of engagement in terms of micropolitical tensions, ambivalences and contradictions that unfold in these interactions. It first argues that the boundaries that exist between inside and outside institutions are not clear cut because actors circulate between them. The study shows how gender experts instrumentalize their own life and career trajectories, navigating between advocacy and governance, to enhance their power in current institutional settings. It then focuses on instrumentalist discourses and traces their emergence in unequal negotiations. It demonstrates how gender experts can become part of the processes that they also critique. Finally, the study analyses strategies in which experts instrumentalize institutional inequalities to their advantage to produce diverse political possibilities with open‐ended outcomes.

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参与政治：性别专业知识和国际治理

本文研究了国际治理机构中性别问题专家的经验，并考察了他们与治理体系中多个参与者的互动，他们共同协商了行使其作为专家的权力。该分析超越了霸权机构内部的二进制文件与外部霸权的二进制文件，或者选择与行动主义的二进制文件，利用工具化的过程作为优势点，阐明了这些参与政治中出现的多种路径。本文从微观政治张力，矛盾和矛盾中体现了参与政治，这些矛盾在这些互动中得以展现。首先，它认为内部机构和外部机构之间存在的界限不明确，因为参与者在它们之间流通。该研究表明，性别问题专家如何利用自己的生活和职业轨迹，在倡导和治理之间导航，以增强其在当前机构环境中的力量。然后，它关注工具主义话语，并追溯它们在不平等谈判中的出现。它展示了性别专家如何成为他们批评的过程的一部分。最后，本研究分析了战略，在这些战略中，专家利用制度性不平等发挥了自己的优势，以产生具有开放性结果的各种政治可能性。它展示了性别专家如何成为他们批评的过程的一部分。最后，本研究分析了战略，在这些战略中，专家利用制度性的不平等优势发挥了作用，以产生具有开放性结果的各种政治可能性。它展示了性别专家如何成为他们批评的过程的一部分。最后，本研究分析了战略，在这些战略中，专家利用制度性不平等发挥了自己的优势，以产生具有开放性结果的各种政治可能性。