Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-46345-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Gender, Development and Social Change

This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and  gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary  analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge  the ballot box as the only legitimate means of ensuring freedom. Drawing on case  studies from seven African countries, the contributors focus on specific political  moments in their respective countries to offer insights into how the state/society  social contract is contested through informal channels, and how political power  functions to counteract citizen’s voices. These contributions offer a different way  of thinking about state-building and structural change that goes beyond the  system-based approaches that dominate scholarship on democratization and  political structures. In effect, it provides a basisfor organizers and social   movements to consider how to build solidarity beyond influencing government  institutions.
Chapters 3, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okech, Awino

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Youth-hood, gender and feminist dissent.- Chapter 3. Student movements and autocracies in Africa.- Chapter 4. Fallist feminist futures in South Africa.- Chapter 5. A revolution deferred: sexual and gender based violence in Egypt.- Chapter 6. The revolution continues: Sudanese women’s activism.- Chapter 7. Women and the anglophone struggle in cameroon.- Chapter 8. Democratic reversals in Burundi.- Chapter 9. The rise and demise of the “new dispensation” in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 10. Embodying protest: feminist organising in Kenya.

Über Autor(innen)

Awino Okech is a Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.