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Afro-regions : the dynamics of cross-border micro-regionalism in Africa
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This collection focuses on the making and unmaking of cross-border micro-regions in Africa. Its main emphasis is that micro-regions are not givens, but are constructed and reconstructed through social practice, political economy and, in discourse, by a variety of states, corporations and non-state actors. The region-builders are the focus -- that is, those actors that build and make micro-regions and their associated region-building strategies. Key research questions are: for whom, for what purpose and with what consequences are micro-regions being made and unmade? There is also special emphasis on how people on the ground and local communities create their own region-building strategies and how they respond to the region-building strategies of others. The case studies -- by leading scholars of African studies and the result of extensive fieldwork -- include a wide selection of micro-regions all over Africa, such as the Maputo Development Corridor, the Zambezi Valley region, the Zambia-Malawi-Mozambique Growth Triangle, Walvis Bay, the Sierra Leone-Liberia border zone, cross-border micro-regions on the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes region, North Africa, and so forth.
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971, et al.
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Same and other : negotiating African identity in cultural production
- 2001
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. These claims, articulated both by 'Western' and 'African' critics and consumers, means that particular criteria and standards are adopted in relation to cultural production in Africa. The claim to African Otherness is gaining new strength in the wake of globalisation, but it is also increasingly challenged by a number of contemporary artists. This book deals with the question of relevance and meaning of the signifier in various fields of contemporary cultural production in Africa: literature, film, sculpture, music, popular drama.
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- Malmström, Maria Frederika
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Just like couscous : Gender, agency and the politics of female circumcision in Cairo
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores how female gender identity is continually created and re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female circumcision is central. In order to do so, the study inquires into the lived experiences and social meanings of female circumcision and femininity as narrated by women from lower class neighbourhoods in Cairo. The study seeks to understand how the experiences of femininity and female circumcision are shaped and challenged by the social and political changes that impinge on these women’s lives.Female circumcision has become a global political minefield with ‘Western’ interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. The global human rights discourse brings about change by portraying female circumcision as mutilation. These discourses and other political and social changes both in Egypt and elsewhere, such as modernization, the aftermath of 9/11 and regional instability have together begun to dis-embed female circumcision from its socio-cultural context. This thesis focuses upon the way in which these women understand and respond to these complex changes and it looks particularly at how different actors, in their construction of female identity, contest, resist, subvert or embrace female circumcision.The study explores how the subject is made through the interplay of global hegemonic structures of power and the most intimate sphere, which has been exposed in the international arena. The need to understand agency as the capacity to act according to the exigencies of the specific sociocultural forms the main premise of this dissertation; the Egyptian context comprises the complex interaction between the local and a variety of wider global forces.
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- Malmström, Maria, 1969
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Kvinnlig könsstympning. Ett utbildningsmaterial för skola, socialtjänst och hälso- och sjukvård
- 2005
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denna kunskapsöversikt riktar sig till personal inom socialtjänst, hälso- och sjukvård, skola med mera, som på ett eller annat sätt kommer i kontakt med människor som har könsstympning som en del av sin kultur. Avsikten är att ge berörd personal möjlighet att förvärva och fördjupa sina kunskaper om kvinnlig könsstympning. Detta kan i sin tur leda till förbättrade metoder vad gäller omhändertagande och bemötande av kvinnor som könsstympats eller flickor som riskerar att könsstympas. Relevant lagstiftning beskrivs och det förebyggande arbetet poängteras.Könsstympning av flickor är förbjuden i Sverige. Man räknar med att mellan 100-140 miljoner flickor och kvinnor i Afrika är könsstympade och att ytterligare 2 miljoner flickor varje år utsätts för ingreppet (WHO 2001). I Sverige utgör somalierna den största grupp som har könsstympning som tradition. Könsstympning av flickor har därför blivit synliggjort sedan slutet av 1980-talet, när somaliska flyktingar började komma hit. Seden finns dock även i andra länder; i exempelvis Eritrea, Etiopien och Gambia utövas traditionen i skild omfattning bland vissa grupper.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Multi-habitation : urban housing and everyday life in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
- 2003
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a study of everyday life and the quality of living in a poor neighbourhood of Chitungwiza, an independent Zimbabwean town about thirty kilometres south of Harare city centre. In the official view, this is a home-ownership neighbourhood. However, there are usually many families living in multi-habitation on each property, and lodgers outnumber owners. Within a restricted area people have to negotiate over, and adapt their use of space. Their ability to do so differs, depending on whether they are owners, tenants or lodgers, women or men, children, adults or elderly, and whether they are gainfully employed or not. The outcome of these negotiations and adaptations decisively affects their feeling of being at home in the house and the neighbourhood. The histories told by the people who are given voice in this report point to housing as highly significant in their coping with poverty, and to multi-habitation as affecting their agency as urban citizens.
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968, et al.
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Micro-regionalism in West Africa : evidence from two case studies
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This collection seeks to complement and advance recent studies on regionalism in Africa and the implications that this has for the continent’s development. The two case studies on cross-border micro-regionalism in the borderlands of Mali-Burkina Faso and Niger-Nigeria are part of the work of the West Africa Borders and Integration (WABI). WABI is a research institute that looks at cross-border developments in West Africa, particularly at the convergence between political will and regionalisation on the ground. Providing a challenge to the considerable number of state-centric, formalistic and not seldom overly idealistic studies in this field, the two cases show quite clearly that formal borders either essentially do not exist in the Westphalian sense, being ignored by local populations and traders, or, are strategically used by (often self-styled) representatives of the state to extract resources and rents. In either case, the Eurocentric notion of fixed boundaries and bordered delineations has little purchase in the West African Sahel.
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- Malmström, Maria, 1969
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Uppdrag att förebygga kvinnlig könsstympning i Sverige : Återrapportering
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Socialstyrelsen fick 2003 ett regeringsuppdrag om kvinnlig könsstympning med utgångspunkt i den nationella handlingsplanen mot kvinnlig köns- stympning (S2003/5513/ST) som antogs av regeringen i juni 2003. [...] Socialstyrelsen har genomfört uppdraget i samråd med berörda myndigheter, frivilligorganisationer och personer som arbetar med frågan inom hälso- och sjukvården, socialtjänsten, rättsväsendet, forskning m.m. Vissa delar av uppdraget har inneburit ett närmare samarbete med vissa myndigheter. Handledningen för polis och åklagare samt de regionala konferenserna genomförde Socialstyrelsen i samarbete med Rikspolisstyrelsen och Åklagarmyndigheten. I samarbete med Myndigheten för skolutveckling planera- de Socialstyrelsen informationsinsatserna riktade till skolan.
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