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A place to live : gender research on housing in Africa
- 1996
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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
- 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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Gender, generation and urban living conditions in southern Africa
- 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- To adapt to urban conditions and establish a decent and sustainable life, women and men in the recently urbanized areas of Southern Africa develop, negotiate and renegotiate new relationships and spaces between genders and generations at household and community levels. Growing poverty, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and changing socioeconomic and household demographic structures have made the struggle more difficult than ever before. They have forced the elderly and young people to take up unexpected roles and responsibilities. Living arrangements have changed, grandmother- and child-headed households are new phenomena, and gender and intergenerational boundaries have been crossed. How has urbanization and the above processes influenced the way women and men relate to each other in their everyday life? How do they view gender-specific rules and practices? How are relations of power, access and control over resources worked out? How do these relations affect generational and intergenerational support? How are gender, generational culture, social and legal underpinnings on the meaning and use of resources and living spaces adapted to urban environments? This book, published under the Gender Research on Urbanization Planning Housing and Everyday Life (GRUPHEL) Programme within the Institute for Southern African Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Lesotho, addresses some of these issues. Using gender, generation and concepts of social justice as the basis and tools for analyzing the research data, the 12 papers in this volume address how the GRUPHEL themes relate to the everyday living experiences of respondents.
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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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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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Elderly women's living conditions and property rights in Zambian cities
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Ingår i: Gender, generation and urban living conditions in southern Africa. Kalabamu, Mapetla and Schlyter (eds.). - Roma, Lesotho : Institute of Southern African Studies (ISAS), National University of Lesotho. ; , s. 263-288
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Esther's house : One woman's 'home eocnomics' in Chitungqiza, Zimbabwe
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Ingår i: African urban eocnimies. Viability, vitality or vitiation? Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Deborah Potts (eds.). - Houndsmill and New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 1403999473 ; , s. 254-278
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- [About the book, from Palgrav Macmillan:] Are Africa’s most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa’s ‘apex’ cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems. [About Schlyter's chapter, by a reviewer:] Part four addresses infrastructure, housing and welfare issues, with more of an orientation towards the planning literature. Beall, Crankshaw and Parnell continue their long collaborative efforts to investigate Johannesburg's housing issues, here with a focus on migrants to the city. Schlyter adds to her own extensive research record on various elements of home economics in urban southern Africa, this time centering her attention on Chitungwiza (a satellite town of Harare, Zimbabwe). Doo Selolwana assesses the degree to which privatization of urban infrastructural development has or has not led to employment creation in Gaborone, Botswana, and the section ends with Ngware's fine chapter on Dar es Salaam's Tabata Development Fund.
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