Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis (eBook, PDF)

A View from the Margins
Redaktion: Kamlongera, Mtisunge Isabel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases Global South theorizations and understandings of gender. It offers important and detailed empirical accounts, challenging a field rooted in Western Feminist epistemology. As such, this book will be a useful guide for researchers of gender and post-colonial studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040351383
• Artikelnr.: 73853384

Autorenporträt

Mtisunge Isabel Kamlongera is a scholar and educator with extensive experience in decolonial research methodologies, gender studies, and participatory communication for social change. She holds a PhD in educational sciences for teacher education from Oslo Metropolitan University, where her research focused on interactive radio drama and radio listening clubs as tools for critical pedagogy in Malawi, emphasizing Africana Womanism and Freirean approaches. Kamlongera also holds an MA in communication and development, an MEd in critical studies in educational foundations, and a graduate certificate in women's, gender, and sexuality studies from Ohio University. As the faculty lead for a course on the decolonization of epistemology and research methods at MyGlobalEd.org, she designs and delivers content that intersects gender and decolonial thought. Her academic interests focus on critically engaging with gender, media, and development through a decolonial lens, prioritizing collaborative knowledge creation with marginalized communities to challenge dominant narratives. Her work has been published in leading journals, including research ethics and gender and education. Her research prioritizes collaborative knowledge creation with marginalized communities, centering their voices and experiences to challenge dominant narratives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "Herstory" Reclaimed: African Women in Precolonial
Societies 2. No Colonised Females Are Women: A Query into the Discursive
Exclusion of Black Womxn from the Category of "Woman" 3. Challenging
Western Paradigms: Decolonial Feminism and Gender Justice in Africa 4.
Intersectionality, African Feminism and Decolonial African Feminist Praxis
5. Unlocking Women's Political Agency in Africa through Decolonial Thinking
6. The Ontology of the 'Swart Gevaar': Decolonising Black Women's Wombs in
South Africa 7. Challenging Conventional Approaches: Examining Gender
Dynamics and Decolonial Frameworks in Addressing Female Genital Cutting in
Kenya 8. Localising Gender Expertise: Challenges and Prospects in the
African Humanitarian Sector 9. Beyond Promises: Revisiting Empowerment
through Decolonial Perspectives on Low-Carbon Technologies and Women's
Livelihoods in Malawi 10. Reconciling Agency and Belonging: African Women
in Migration Stories