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- Oldfield, S., et al.
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In bodies and homes: Gendering citizenship in Southern African cities
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urbani Izziv. - : Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. - 0353-6483 .- 1855-8399. ; 30:Suppl., s. 37-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do the everyday contexts in which ordinary women struggle to access and maintain a place on the peripheries of the city shape experiences of citizenship? This paper explores this question in George, a peri-urban Lusaka neighbourhood in Zambia and through experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women's negotiation of a place on the peri-urban edges of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. In the logics of citizen-subjects, the experiences of these groups of women should be poles apart, the first with rights imbued in citizenship, the second migrants without. Here instead, we demonstrate the ways in which gendered political subjectivities embed in the hard, lived realities of home. In placing gender and everyday body politics at the forefront of our analysis, the paper makes visible the micro-realities of making home. We demonstrate that an assumed recursive relationship between citizenship and home, as a physical and social place in the city, is problematic. Building on debates on citizenship and its gendering in post-colonial African urban contexts, we demonstrate instead that citizenship and its gendered contestations and emergent forms in Southern African are crafted in quotidian activities in homes and everyday city contexts. © 2019 Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. All rights reserved.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Recycled inequalities. Youth and gender in George compound, Zambia
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book addresses concerns about gender inequalities, democracy and deteriorating urban living conditions in Zambia. It presents a study of the reality facing youth in a peri-urban area in the 1990s. Existing gender inequalities are challenged but often recycled in slightly different forms.
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- Tran, Hoai Anh, et al.
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Gender and class in urban transport: the cases of Xian and Hanoi
- 2010
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Ingår i: Environment and Urbanization. - : SAGE Publications. - 0956-2478 .- 1746-0301. ; 22:1, s. 139-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents empirical findings of a study on the mobility situation of people of different gender, age and class in two residential areas each in two fast-growing Asian cities with high rates of motorization, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam. Notable class and gender differences in travel patterns were found in both cities. Respondents in the old and poorer residential areas walk more, while better-off respondents in the new areas use motorized transport modes (car and motorbikes) to a greater extent. The main difference in travel modes between the areas in both cities is that non-motorized modes are used as a necessary means of travel for less well-off people in the old areas, while residents in the new (and better-off areas) can choose to switch to motorized modes for longer distance trips. Further class difference can be found in Hanoi in the use of buses and in Xian in the use of cars. The study found that the differences in travel patterns between women and men are similar to those found between the residents of poor and affluent areas: women walk more and men are more motorized. The study also confirms that in both Xian and Hanoi, despite women’s high rates of participation in the labour market, men still predominate in livelihood-related transport tasks whereas women are more involved in household-related transport tasks.
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Body politics and women citizens – African experiences
- 2009
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume presents empirical case studies of women's experiences of working for their livelihoods and of how they craft their everyday lives as wives, mothers and citizens. They do so in the shadow of the global market and of neo-traditional and religious movements which resist change in the direction of gender equality. Phenomena such as polygamy and female genital mutilation are maintained or revived within modern African society. The perspective of body politics reveals a growing concern about the constraints on women claiming their rights, and points to the need to identify new methods to support women's full and active citizenship.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Body politics and the Crafting of Citizenship in Peri-urban Lusaka
- 2009
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Ingår i: Feminist Africa. - 1726-4596. ; 13, s. 23-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Full and active citizenship continues to be a conditional and elusive right for women in many African countries. The effects of neo-liberal globalisation have proved to affect many women negatively, while other women have taken advantage of the new political openings that occurred in the1990s. However, women’s citizenship has been increasingly problematic in the context of the unequal conditions not only between women and men, but also between the rich and poor, and in the Southern African urban context, between residents of the formal city and those persisting in poverty in peripheral peri-urban areas. This paper focuses on women’s crafting of citizenship in George, a peri-urban area of Lusaka, drawing from longitudinal research undertaken there over forty years, from 1968 to the present. While the original studies explored everyday life in relation to housing and urban policies. The paper presents a revised analysis of interviews and field note observations using the concept body politics to better understand individual women’s crafting of citizenship in their homes and neighbourhood. The first section of the paper shows how over time, both at national and local levels, policies have restricted rather than strengthened women’s citizenship and how women in the community and at national level have struggled for access to the public sphere and the political world. The second section sows, by employing the concept of body politics, how restrictions to an active citizenship are rooted in private life.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Research on Africa : A Swedish perspective
- 2007
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Ingår i: The study of Africa. Volume 2. Global and transnational engagements. Paul Tiyame Zeleza (ed.). - Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA. - 2869781989
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- [The book:] This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty- first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. Part two considers: African and area studies in France, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden; anti-colonialism and Russian/soviet African studies; African studies in the Caribbean in historical perspective; the teaching of African history and the history of Africa in Brazil; African studies in India; African studies and historiography in China in the twenty-first century; and African studies and contemporary scholarship in Japan.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943, et al.
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Unequal impacts of privatisation of housing : The cases of Lusaka and Hanoi
- 2007
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Ingår i: Crossing boundaries. Gender, generation and social justice in an urbanising world. Mapetla, Schlyter and Bless (eds.). - Roma, Lesotho : National University of Lesotho.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the eighties, public housing has been privatised in many countries all over the world, as part of so called structural adjustment policies, for example in Zambia, or as part of market reforms in planned economies like Vietnam. Arguments for a liberalisation of housing markets through privatisation have been to increase productivity and efficiency in building and maintenance, to extend consumer choice and influence, and also to get away with subsidies. Privatisations have been presented as a key ingredient in decentralisation and democratisation processes, as it decreases governments’ control over communities, groups and individuals (Linneman et al. 1994, Whitehead 1993, La Grange 1998, Zhang 1999). This paper compares the findings of two studies of privatisation in two different contexts, Hanoi in Vietnam and Lusaka in Zambia. Clapham (1995) distinguishes between three main housing systems: the market, the regulating market and the statecontrolled. Schlyter (2002) defined a forth system, a post-colonial housing system, characterised by a small sector of state-controlled housing tied to employment, while the huge majority lived in informal, often sub-standard housing. Vietnam and Zambia clearly had different housing systems, the state controlled and the post-colonial. However, restricting the comparison to publicly owned housing areas there are also many similarities.
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