Political Economy of Gender and Development in Africa

2023-01-01 Political Science

Author : Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Release : 2023-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Political Economy of Gender and Development in Africa by : Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Download or read book Political Economy of Gender and Development in Africa written by Bhabani Shankar Nayak. This book was released on 2023-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa. The current needs of women in Africa are connected with the possible future emancipation of women from institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty to overcome gendered development processes and patriarchal economic policies at work. The role of legal, political, cultural, religious, and economic institutions in development are examined to highlight marginalisation within uneven development processes embedded with capitalism. Broader development issues, such as property rights, food security, accessibility of resources, and environmental change, are also discussed. This book aims to reimagine African development from an issue-based perspective that moves beyond gender stereotypes and narrow silo of patriarchal development. The volume is relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, development and feminist economics.

Technology, Gender, and Power in Africa

1990 Africa

Author : Patricia Stamp
Release : 1990
Genre : Africa
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Download or read book Technology, Gender, and Power in Africa written by Patricia Stamp. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, Gender and Power in Africa

Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa

2016-01-29 Business & Economics

Author : Meredeth Turshen
Release : 2016-01-29
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa by : Meredeth Turshen

Download or read book Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa written by Meredeth Turshen. This book was released on 2016-01-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through community relations and the education of children Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework. This framework employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum—a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in women’s reproductive lives. These analyses come together to create a new explanation of why violence persists, a new political economy of violence against women, and a new theoretical understanding of the relation between production and reproduction. Three case studies are discussed: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (violence in an era of conflict), Sierra Leone (violence post-conflict), and Tanzania (which has not seen armed conflict on the mainland). This book fills a significant gap on the political economy of war and women/gender for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in African Studies, Gender Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

2021-10-29 History

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Release : 2021-10-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies by : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies written by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso. This book was released on 2021-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

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