Engendering African Social Sciences

Author : Ayesha Imam,Amina Mama,Fatou Sow
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047072130

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Engendering African Social Sciences by Ayesha Imam,Amina Mama,Fatou Sow Pdf

This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.

Author : Niamh Gaynor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000597066

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Engendering Democracy in Africa by Niamh Gaynor Pdf

This book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take place, at national and at local levels. In recent years there have been significant improvements in the number of women elected to parliament in Africa. However, there is little indication that this is translating into better developmental outcomes, and indeed there is mounting evidence that it could in fact help to bolster some authoritarian regimes. Starting from the premise that politics is a far broader project than securing a seat in national or local legislatures alone, this book explores the opportunities for women’s political participation across a number of informal spaces where women and men gather, organise and interact in a more regular and systematic manner. Combining insights from political science, sociology and feminist theory and drawing on detailed cases from the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Rwanda, it examines how power in its multiple dimensions circulates across a range of everyday political spaces, while drawing attention to the links between domestic gender inequalities and the global political economy. Inviting scholars, practitioners and activists to broaden their focus beyond formal electoral institutions if they want to support women to become more politically active, this book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of African studies, development studies, gender and development, democratisation, and international relations.

Author : Rosemary Jane Jolly
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846312137

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Cultured Violence by Rosemary Jane Jolly Pdf

Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on and juxtaposing narratives of profoundly different kinds—the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony form the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's rape trial, and personal interviews among them—in order to illuminate different cultural senses of the “state of the nation” and retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions of South African subjects taken from accounts of their individual lives.

Author : Fibian Lukalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000481136

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Mothers and Schooling by Fibian Lukalo Pdf

This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the ‘free education policy’. Based on a prize-winning study examining mothers’ attitudes to education in a rural Kenyan community, this vividly nuanced ethnographic work draws upon African feminist perspectives to describe the livelihoods and aspirations of 32 mothers responsible for over 180 children. It explores the effects of mothers’ school histories and the constraining effects of land practices and patriarchal culture on their actions. Their school choice and engagement strategies reflect different facilitating environments, their educational values, the use of social mothering practices and reliance on kinship reciprocity. The findings illustrate the importance of recognising the diversity of mothers’ situations within this small community and the pressures they face to be ‘good mothers’ who school their children. Mothers and Schooling highlights the importance of mothers’ educational agency and is essential reading for anthropologists of education, those working in gender studies, poverty alleviation strategists, educational researchers, teachers and policy-makers who wish to improve the success of Education for All for the children of women living in Southern rural poverty.

Author : O. Nnaemeka,J. Ezeilo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137043825

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Engendering Human Rights by O. Nnaemeka,J. Ezeilo Pdf

Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters examine how human rights frameworks and practices differ in various political, economic, social, cultural, racial and gendered contexts througout Africa.

Author : Phillips Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011031807

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The Social Sciences and African Development Planning by Phillips Stevens Pdf

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137073020

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Engendering History by NA NA Pdf

Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history.

Author : Catherine M. Cole,Takyiwaa Manuh,Stephan Miescher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253218773

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Africa After Gender? by Catherine M. Cole,Takyiwaa Manuh,Stephan Miescher Pdf

Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3382 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195382075

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Dictionary of African Biography by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

Author : Josephine Beoku-Betts,Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786996961

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War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment by Josephine Beoku-Betts,Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale Pdf

Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment. This is in marked contrast to other post-conflict countries, which have increased the political participation of women in elected and appointed office, increased the representation of women in leadership positions, and enacted constitutional reforms promoting women's rights. Written by Sierra Leonean and Africanist scholars and experts from a broad range of disciplines, this unique volume analyses the historical and contextual factors influencing women's political, economic and social development in the country. In drawing on a diverse array of case studies – from health to education, refugees to international donors – the contradictions, successes and challenges of women's lives in a post-conflict environment are revealed, making this an essential book for anyone involved in women and development.

Author : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789231041310

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World Social Science Report 2010 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Pdf

Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil. In sub-Saharan Africa, social scientists from South Africa, Nigeria andKenya produce 75% of academic publications. In South Asia, barring some centres of excellence in India, social sciences as a whole have low priority. These are a few of the findings from World Social Science Report, 2010: Knowledge divides. Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published with UNESCO, the Report is the first comprehensive overview of the field in over a decade. Hundreds of social scientists from around the world contributed their expertise to the publication. Gudmund Hernes, President of the ISSC, Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), Hebe Vessuri, Director, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), and François Héran, Director of Research, National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), France, are among the experts who presented the Report during its official launch at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 25 June 2010.

Author : Harri Englund,Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 184277283X

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Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa by Harri Englund,Francis B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

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Author : Samuel Agyei-Mensah,Joseph Atsu Ayee,Abena D. Oduro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401787154

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Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana by Samuel Agyei-Mensah,Joseph Atsu Ayee,Abena D. Oduro Pdf

This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective from which to view the evolution, theory, methods, substance and relevance of each of the Social Science disciplines and their multiple interfaces. The introduction and the conclusion are devoted to the theoretical, comparative and empirical debate over the Social Sciences from historical and analytical perspectives. Written by acknowledged experts, the 15 chapters span the following disciplines: Archaeology and Heritage Studies; History; Geography; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; Social Work; Economics; Political Science; International Affairs; Information Studies; Communication Studies; African Studies; Development Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies and Adult and Continuing Education. Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana offers sophisticated perspectives for comparing and appreciating the synergies, differences, trends and nuances among and between the Social Science disciplines in Ghana, in a holistic and scholarly manner.

Author : Rickard Danell,Anna Larsson,Per Wisselgren
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789187351051

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Social Science in Context by Rickard Danell,Anna Larsson,Per Wisselgren Pdf

One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration studies, social gerontology, gender studies, educational science, geography, and political science. It looks at them not only in their academic setting but also in extra-academic contexts and in a broader global setting. The volume includes 15 chapters written by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars. The overall aim of the book is to encourage a contextual and reflexive understanding of the complex and dynamic relationship between the social sciences and society of the past and in today's globalized world. It is concerned with the bonds between the social sciences and society at large, including themes such as gender and power, science and politics, academic boundaries and global power relations, and postcolonial perspectives.

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956764433

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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd by B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africas possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded frontier African at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuolas stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.