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Body politics and the Crafting of Citizenship in Peri-urban Lusaka
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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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Recycled inequalities. Youth and gender in George compound, Zambia
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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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A place to live : gender research on housing in Africa
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Be it a house or a makeshift, a shared or rented room, or a home of one's own, a place to live is central in surviving strategies of all urban households. In this volume the authors explore the gendered experiences of housing and housing rights in African countries. There are many differences but also many similarities in the pattern of women not having the same access and control over housing as men have. While women often are the bread-winners, they are also the home-makers, in the sense that it is women who put intense efforts in making a place home.
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Body politics and women citizens – African experiences
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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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Experience of cooperation in gender research on urbanisation and housing in Southern Africa
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Ingår i: Power, resources and culture in a gender perspective : towards a dialogue between gender research and development practice : proceedings from a conference arranged by the Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University, in cooperation with Sida 26-27 October, 2000. - Uppsala, Stockholm : Uppsala Universitet, Sida. - 9197368350 ; , s. 74-81
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Gender mainstreaming in Swedish universities : Paper to conference in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
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Ingår i: CGGS paper series (Centre for global gender studies), working papers. - 1653-7858. ; :2
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Work for equal opportunities and a gender balance among students and university staff at all levels and the work for the production and dissemination of knowledge about gender are two different but related tasks. Two ways of supporting knowledge production are tested and discussed in Sweden, one is to build a discipline of gender studies and the other is the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in teaching and research of all disciplines. In this presentation I start by looking at the gender balance: the number of women and men at various levels from students to professors, and I continue to look at what the government has done to promote equal opportunities. The main points of resistance are identified, and debates about the mechanisms of subtle discrimination are reviewed. Secondly, I scrutinize the work of mainstreaming a gender perspective in teaching and research, and the paths taken towards a discipline of gender research. Finally, I mention some recent and contradictory tendencies, and conclude that progress has been made but it is slow and partial. Inequalities continue to be reproduced within the university system. The small achievements have to be defended and re-captured again and again.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Housing policy in Zambia : Retrospect and prospect
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Ingår i: Habitat International. - 0197-3975. ; 22:3, s. 259-271
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the re-instatement of a multi-party system in Zambia in 1991, approaches to finding solutions to housing shortages have changed significantly. Local government staff sees their new role primarily as facilitators of the improvement process. This role is promoted by the country's new National Housing Policy, the draft National Housing Development Programme and the draft National Decentralisation Policy. In view of these recent policy initiatives, a retrospective review of Zambian housing policy is presented, focussing on efforts to provide serviced land, private home ownership, overcoming tenure constraints and organising community participation and the support of non-governmental organisations. Case study evidence from George compound is used to illustrate the paper.
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