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31.1. 2012 Amina Mama: African Women in an Age of War: notes from a feminist anti-militarist perspective

The history of militarism in Africa is long and largely written as a history of men and masculinity, that obscures the deeply gendered features that have generated the neglected consequences it has for women and for all aspects of gender relations. This lecture pursues a discussion of the gendered nature of militarism, making reference to selected African examples that highlight the historicity of this mutually constitutive connection, and the manner in which women respond and resist its consequences, in times of conflict and military rule.

Amina Mama is currently the director of the Women and Gender Studies program at UC Davis. Her interests are feminist theory, activist research methodologies, women‘s movements, international development studies, militarism, social transformation, organisational development and change and politics of knowledge. She has led and conducted gender research in Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa.

Letzte Aktualisierung 22.02.2012 von afrikaprakti

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