Engendering Democracy In Africa

Author : Niamh Gaynor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000597067
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Democracy in Africa written by Niamh Gaynor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take place, at national and at local levels. In recent years there have been significant improvements in the number of women elected to parliament in Africa. However, there is little indication that this is translating into better developmental outcomes, and indeed there is mounting evidence that it could in fact help to bolster some authoritarian regimes. Starting from the premise that politics is a far broader project than securing a seat in national or local legislatures alone, this book explores the opportunities for women’s political participation across a number of informal spaces where women and men gather, organise and interact in a more regular and systematic manner. Combining insights from political science, sociology and feminist theory and drawing on detailed cases from the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Rwanda, it examines how power in its multiple dimensions circulates across a range of everyday political spaces, while drawing attention to the links between domestic gender inequalities and the global political economy. Inviting scholars, practitioners and activists to broaden their focus beyond formal electoral institutions if they want to support women to become more politically active, this book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of African studies, development studies, gender and development, democratisation, and international relations.

Author : Jennifer Fish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135487677
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Democracy written by Jennifer Fish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jennifer Fish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113548760X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Democracy written by Jennifer Fish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jo Beall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decentralisation and Engendering Democracy written by Jo Beall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hussein Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135175128X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consolidation of Democracy in Africa written by Hussein Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: The continent of Africa is undergoing great change. While on the one hand there is talk of a re-awakening of Africa or Renaissance various countries in Africa are still plagued by poverty, intra- and interstate violence. In some countries the legacy of neo-colonialism and under development contributed to social strife and the potential criminalization of the State. This book addresses the topic of democratization and sustainable democracy in Africa against this background.

Author : Rosemary Jane Jolly
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846312132
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultured Violence written by Rosemary Jane Jolly and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on and juxtaposing narratives of profoundly different kinds—the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony form the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's rape trial, and personal interviews among them—in order to illuminate different cultural senses of the “state of the nation” and retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions of South African subjects taken from accounts of their individual lives.

Author : International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering the Political Agenda written by International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and published by UN. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains three comparative case studies to show how gender issues are dealt with in the political structures of the Dominican Republic, Romania and South Africa. These countries were chosen because they are in the process of development and structural reform, with the strong involvement of the international community. The case studies examine two issues that are common to all three countries (violence against women and reproductive health) and one issue specific to each country.

Author : Sonia E. Alvarez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828422
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Democracy in Brazil written by Sonia E. Alvarez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final stages of regime transition in the 1980s. Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and women's studies and feminist political theory.

Author : Ayesha Imam
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering African Social Sciences written by Ayesha Imam and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.

Author : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064417
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Identity and Democracy in Africa written by Mai Palmberg and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Province of South Africa