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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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Gender, generation and urban living conditions in southern Africa
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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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- 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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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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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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- Schlyter, Ann, 1943
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Research on Africa : A Swedish perspective
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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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Unequal impacts of privatisation of housing : The cases of Lusaka and Hanoi
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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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