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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
- 2005
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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
- 2006
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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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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Experience of cooperation in gender research on urbanisation and housing in Southern Africa
- 2001
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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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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Gender issues in housing privatisation : Intricacies of property transfer in Zambia
- 2004
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Ingår i: Trialog. - 0724-6234. ; :80
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- (Abstract in German:) Die Studie befasst sich mit der Privatisierung von Wohnungen in Lusaka, Zambia, und legt die Mechanismen offen, die dabei die Frauen benachteiligen. Sie verfolgt die Abläufe, mit denen diese Art von “Liberalisierung” verbunden sind, besonders die Mechanismen, die Frauen berücksichtigt oder ausgrenzt. Dabei wird deutlich, wie der daraus entstehende Wohnungsmarkt zwar einerseits auch Frauen die Möglichkeit eröffnet, Grund- und Immobilieneigentum zu erwerben, während andererseits die Mehrzahl der Frauen davon gerade ausgeschlossen wird. Der Konflikt der Geschlechter wurde hinter der Diskussion über das “Familienhaus” verborgen. Die Autorin zieht daraus den Schluss, dass gerade in der Debatte um Frauengleichstellung, die Frage des Rechts auf Eigentum und, insbersondere, Wohnung ins Zentrum gestellt werden sollte.
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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Gender mainstreaming in Swedish universities : Paper to conference in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
- 2004
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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
- 1998
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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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- 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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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Our common estate : Privatization of council housing in Lusaka, Zambia
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A study of how public housing in Lusaka was transferred into private ownership was conducted with the aim of revealing its effects with respect to class and gender, the housing stock, governance and democracy. At the time of the fieldwork in January 1999 and in January 2000, it was too early to measure such impact in quantitative terms; the process was still ongoing and title deeds were not issued. The aim was to gain an understanding of the mechanisms in the process, and of people ’s experiences and understanding of the it by using qualitative methods, involving interviews with key persons and residents, and analysis of official documents and articles in newspapers. This paper starts with a short historic review of what is called the colonial and post-colonial housing systems, thereby providing an understanding of the housing situation at the time of the privatisation. The privatisation is then analysed as a component in a policy to transform the housing system into a market housing system. The paper puts the focus on the relation between central policy formulation and local implementation.
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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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- 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
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Township Organisation, Democracy, and Women's Rights in Zambia
- 1998
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Ingår i: Rudebeck, Törnquist & Rojas (eds.), Democratisaton in the Third World. Concrete cases in comparative and theoretial perspective. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9780333717295
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- [The book:] Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
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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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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Women's responses to political changes in Southern Africa - common grounds and differences
- 1996
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The political changes in Southern Africa have meant different things for women and men and for women in different classes. The political transformation in Southern Africa is complex and shows a variety of characteristics so a short presentation like this is bound to be limited. On basis of a case study in urban Zambia I will argue that the trans- formation from a one- to a multi-party system has dismantled structures in which grassroots women had some influence, especially regarding their own township and environment, while a feminist movement led by educated women experienced some openings due to more liberal attitudes to NGOs. Political changes open up different possibilities and evoke different responses in different classes. A common ground is women ́s interest for legal protection against destitution and violence. I was also asked to comment on the situation in South Africa. And I like to tell the success story about how South African women, at a certain point in time, managed to bridge racial, ethnic and other contradictions in order to influence the constitutional reform process. The constitution principles were discussed widely in civil organisations, and today South Africa has i unique interim constitution that condemns discrimination on basis of gender or on sexual orientation.
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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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