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Fragile states, climate change, conflict and violence: Exploring the boundaries of resilience and adaptability from a gender perspective Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Lee Stone, Rufaro Emily Chikuruwo
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Navigating shifting currents: Gendered vulnerabilities and climate change in the Lake Chad Basin Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Rufaro Emily Chikuruwo
This focus piece examines the gendered impacts of climate change, using the Lake Chad Basin as a focal point. The Basin intersects four sovereign states (Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad) impactin...
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Women-led organisations leading from the front: Coordinating responses to gender-based violence in Somalia and South Sudan Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Anna Tazita Samuel, Yusra Ali Adan, Vicci Tallis, Amina Ahmed Adhan, Fiona Shanahan
Responding to gender-based violence (GBV) in fragile and conflict affected states is highly complex and coordination is critical. Both South Sudan and Somalia have unique challenges in providing se...
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Gender dimensions of war and displacement: Experiences of refugees from the Central African Republic in Cameroon Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Noella Epie, Joyce Bayande Epsé Mbongo Endeley
Ensuring that planned processes, programmes and interventions recognise that the underlying inequalities and differential needs of women and men are still impeded by the failure to apply gender con...
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LGBTI+ persons’ concealed displacement in Zimbabwe Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Gabi Mkhize, Liberty Mambondiani
In many parts of the world individuals are subjected to serious human rights abuses because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expressions, and sex characteristics, particularly w...
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Forced displacement, TEKAN and women peacebuilding initiatives in Northern Nigeria Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Mubarak Tukur
TEKAN (Tarayyar Eklisoyoyi Kristi a Nigeria or the Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria) refers to the Conference of Churches in Nigeria (COCIN). The coming together of COCIN to form TEKAN i...
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Livelihood strategies of marginalised Zimbabwean women living in South Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Emma Shuvai Chikovore, Pranitha Maharaj
Zimbabwean women constitute a significant number of migrants living in South Africa. Both accompanying spouses and lone Zimbabwean migrant women face challenges in securing formal employment and ar...
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Challenges faced by women military officers in the South African National Defence Force: A case study of the Hoedspruit Air Force Base, Limpopo Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Knightingale Lulu Mmakola
The military has a deep-rooted masculine culture. One of the aspects of this masculinity, which is hegemonic in its cultural dominance, is the perspective on and perception of femininity. The mascu...
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Conflict in Njobokazi, KwaZulu-Natal: Women as victims and as agents of change Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Dizline Mfanozelwe Shozi, Crispin Hemson
Manchanda (2005, p. 4738) points out that violence is an important variable in determining whether wartime ‘gains’ can be consolidated, as men use violence and the threat of violence to marginalise...
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From displacement to empowerment: How women found their voice and claimed their power Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sirri Emelda Nche, Joyce Bayande Epsé Mbongo Endeley
The narrative on women within war and displacement contexts focuses a great deal on their vulnerability, presenting them as passive victims. This perpetual projection of women as victims of violenc...
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“In tatters”? The problem of ruling relations, power and the National Gender Machinery Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Lou Haysom
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’ : Grassroots women’s responses to changing environments in southern Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Dorah Morema, Coleen Vogel
In this article we draw on the first-hand experience and close walk that the first author (Dorah Morema) has had implementing various projects over a 10-year period with GenderCC Southern Africa – ...
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Feminist decoloniality as care in higher education Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Assata Zerai, Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, Ronelle Carolissen, Saajidha Sader, Nonhlanhla Mthiyane, Mariann Skahan
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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“It seems the women are taking over Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Eugenia AB Anderson, Nora K Nonterah, Margaret M Tayviah, Sally Opoku Agyeman, Rufai Mahami
This article explores patterns of change in the advancement of academic women’s leadership at universities in Ghana. Referred to as the ‘glass ceiling’, women generally suffered great setbacks in t...
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Metaphor drawing as decolonial research and feminist care among Black women academics in selected South African higher education institutions in times of crises Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Relebohile Moletsane, Ronelle Carolissen, Saajidha Sader, Nonhlanhla Mthiyane
The global COVID-19 pandemic and devastating floods in parts of Southern Africa in 2022 intensified the competing gender role expectations for women academics in the home and workplace, with negati...
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Decolonial feminism and indigenisation: Reimagining postgraduate research supervision in post-apartheid South Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Anniah Mupawose, Emmanuel Ojo
This briefing examines the potential for a decolonial feminist approach to indigenise postgraduate research supervision in South African universities. It presents a conceptual framework that challe...
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Re-centring and recovering knowledge about climate-friendly agriculture: Learning from a woman African indigenous knowledge holder Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Sebastian Sanjigadu, Ronicka Mudaly
abstract Patriarchal capitalist colonisation has bestowed on the world civilisational crises, including climate change and the spread of virulent pandemics. The agri-food model, which has been moulded by the contours of the modern capitalist enterprise, is a key source of chemical pollution from artificial fertilisers, and air pollution from greenhouse gases. The consequent killing of soil and water
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A case study of three communities – Indigenous Women, jurisprudence and Climate Justice Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Kavuri Sudha, Anjana Ramanathan
The women of the Ogoni Tribe in Nigeria, those of the Dongria Kondh tribe in India, and the Ogiek women from Kenya could perhaps not be more distant geographically. However, the underlying threads ...
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Wangari Maathai – an African woman leader who decolonised environmental discourse Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lou Haysom
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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In solitary confinement: The constrained identities, spaces and voices of Black women criminologists in post-apartheid South Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lufuno Sadiki
Change and transformation at South African universities has occurred at a slow pace, with racism and sexism persisting. Despite new frameworks being created and policies being restructured to bette...
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Exploring academic identities through collage-making: A collaborative autoethnographic project Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Carmelita Jacobs, Zelda Barends, Rhoda Malgas, Lisa Bailey, Samantha Williams
Black/women of colour occupying academic positions is still a novel phenomenon in many academic institutions, in South Africa and elsewhere. We explored our academic identities as early-career blac...
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The meanings of resilience in climate justice: women smallholder farmers’ responses to agricultural shocks in Uganda under the spotlight Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Brenda Boonabaana, Losira Nasirumbi Sanya, Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Nargiza Ludgate, Laura Meinzen-Dick
Climate crisis has become a global concern resulting in increased frequency of climate hazards and agricultural shocks. Women who dominate agricultural production in Africa are considered the most ...
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Academic woundedness and healing: Welcome to the Queendom! Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Janice Marie Collins
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Serving in Black spaces of the institution: A decolonial Black feminist autoethnography Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Brandi Stone
Black women serving in Black Culture Centres (BCCs) are often tasked with cultivating a safe space for Black students (Young 1986), yet may experience their own gendered racism from the same instit...
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Just an energy transition? A gendered analysis of energy transition in Northern Cape, South Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Julia Taylor
The world faces a climate crisis due to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels which has supported industrialisation and capitalist expansion. One of the solutions to the climate crisis is to r...
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Land and the feminine: Silence as a Room #1 of #5, Richmond, Karoo Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Coral Bijoux
We cannot fight ‘climate change’– we objectify that which we cannot touch. The ‘fight’ refers instead, to our observations, reflections and concerns on the impact these shifts in climate patterns (...
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Women farmers leading and co-learning in an agroecology movement at the intersections of gender and climate Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Ludwig Chanyau, Eureta Rosenberg
This study, carried out in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, was particularly interested in women farmers’ access to social learning spaces for expanding their knowledge about farming in t...
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“Victims or game changers?”: Exploring adolescent girls’ agency in the context of locally led climate action in rural Zimbabwe Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Ellen Chigwanda, Patience Mutopo, Ngonidzashe Mutanana
Over the past decade, Zimbabwe has experienced several climate-induced extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves and cold spells – all of which have challenged the education sector’s resi...
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Dancing Climate Activism in Africa: An interview with Mozambican dancer and choreographer Rosa Mário Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Lliane Loots
abstract This interview connects South African dance maker Lliane Loots in a conversation with Mozambican choreographer and dancer Rosa Mário. Mário has a history of making dance installation work that challenges the relationship of the female body to the natural world – with a sense of interrogating how dance, the body and the art she makes acts as an intervention toward Climate Justice in Africa
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“The most hidden open secret”: Interview with Uhuru Phalafala on Mine Mine Mine (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), conducted by Helene Strauss Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Uhuru Portia Phalafala, Helene Strauss
In this interview, we hope to take up this Special Issue’s concern with the intersections between gender activism, climate justice, and artistic practice. As a work that charts the poet’s deeply pe...
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Taking National Climate Change Gender Action Plans to heart – three steps to activate a plan Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Nidhi Tandon
Sometimes the policy and material discourses around climate change may feel far removed from the daily realities of people, whose experiences are intensely local and whose time horizons are immedia...
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Our Ubuntu: A Black feminist turn Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Emilie Diouf, Unifier Dyer, Asali Ecclesiastes, Marita Gilbert
Ubuntu has become a galvanising concept that brings African and Diasporic peoples into dialogue with one another and its aspirations for both. However, the space of the university and the prescript...
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Ghosts of the Indian Ocean Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Pralini Naidoo
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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For Us & Humanity Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Anjana Ramanathan
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Black women academics in the United States of America and South Africa deploying principles of Feminist Decoloniality as Care (FEMDAC) to confront experiences with microaggressions Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Assata Zerai
While several studies detail the experiences of university students with racial and gender harassment, bullying, and microaggressions, few explore these phenomena among Black women faculty members ...
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Transnational perspectives on gender, food and ecology Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Lou Haysom
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Desiree Lewis, Vasu Reddy, Lynn Mafofo
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Experiences of female higher education academics in Zimbabwe: A decolonial feminist perspective Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Barbara Tsverukayi
The low representation of women in leadership positions continues to characterise higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa. Most senior positions, from Programme Coordinators, to Departmental...
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Symbolic inclusion and systemic exclusion: Exploring our precarious journeys to becoming black women academics at a South African university through the lens of fieldwork Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Mercy Mupavayenda, Fikile Masikane
This perspective piece surfaces financially vulnerable black (women) students as predominant fieldwork research assistants and precarious frontline workers of/in the university in marginalised and ...
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One bad apple: Black women, the Anthropocene and the hypocrisy in food conversations Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Psyche Williams-Forson
abstract Farmer’s markets are ubiquitous on United States (US) landscapes, regardless of region and locale. And while there has been some scholarship about these spaces in the last several years, there is more that can be said regarding the inconsistencies between what many market organisers espouse and the realities for many Black customers. Many Black market-goers attend these outdoor shops but seldom
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Splice: Gendered narratives of spices as healing Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Dhee Naidoo, Vasu Reddy
abstract This article focuses on the uses of spice as a method of healing in selected dishes within a Durban Indian foodscape. Beyond its culinary potential (taste, flavour, seasoning), the article motivates spice as having particular utilities and meanings that have bearing upon social, cultural and gender issues pertinent to food preparation as well as consumption which ultimately influences health
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Black common sense Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-30 Danai S. Mupotsa
abstract This article explores ‘uhuru’ as a critical noun through a reading of the 2020 music video of Sun El-Musician (featuring Azana), ‘Not Yet Uhuru’. A form of rendition of Letta Mbulu’s (1993) ‘Not Yet Uhuru-Akhamandela’, various other echoes of this, conjured in Makhosazana Xaba’s (2019 Xaba, M 2019, The Alkalinity of Bottled Water, Botsotso, Johannesburg. [Google Scholar]) poem of the same
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Defying fear: Opportunities and challenges of digital technologies for sexual and gendered minorities in Cameroon Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Larissa Kojoué
abstract This article analyses the political significance of the diversity of digital practices that sexual minorities exploit for visibility in and from Cameroon. It is based on a field survey conducted in Yaoundé and Douala between 2017 and 2018, as well as on a digital ethnographic survey conducted on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok between 2021 and 2022. In a context hostile to same-sex
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Surfacing: For our survival and our joy Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Tumi Mampane
abstract In this perspective, I reflect on the surface, as articulated in Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon’s (2021 Lewis, Desiree & Gabeba Baderoon (eds) 2021, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) edited collection, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. To surface, in the first instance, is an engagement
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Temporal disjunctures and cultures of the post-apartheid imagination: A review of Sisafunda Futhi Siselapha (Still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years Since 1994 Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sihle Motsa
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Intersectionality and/or multiple consciousness: Re-thinking the analytical tools used to conceptualise and navigate personhood Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara
abstract Kimberley Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality, read in the context of Black Feminist iterations, enables me to sift through the conflation of categories of analysis and praxis in three ways. Firstly, I analyse the purported tensions between Black Feminist theorists and decolonial feminist interpretations of intersectionality, and the attendant consequences of these. In so doing I navigate
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So-Fire-Town: The representations of a translucent urban Black femininity in the Black press through the signatures of Dolly Rathebe in the 1950s Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Thobile Ndimande
abstract This focus reads the multiple selves of Dolly Rathebe as represented in popular cultural discourse, particularly in Drum magazine during the 1950s. Black translucent femininity is a conceptual tool, I argue, with opacity and obscurity; afforded is the opportunity to engage Dolly Rathebe and her various representations with complexity, elasticity and multiplicity. This conception of translucent
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Reflections on the politics of gendered food chains Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 K. Amaya
abstract Throughout history, social relationships surrounding food have traditionally been divided along gender lines. That the food chain is gendered from kernel to platter is therefore probably to repeat a truism. Afterall, the most fundamental form of care, providing food, is still mostly carried out by women in the majority of societies today. In addition, despite having a duty to feed others,
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Title Unknown: When Rain Clouds Gather: (Re)making the Canon Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Reshma Chhiba
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Carceral abolition as a South African possibility: A feminist perspective on the failure of policing and the criminal justice system in South Africa Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Lethabo Mailula
abstract The case for the abolition of the police and prisons has become urgent as the world considers how prisons do not encourage rehabilitation and justice but rather operate as sites of structural violence. Although activists such as Angela Davis have been highlighting the violence of the carceral system and the weaponisation of the system to facilitate the oppression of Black people since the
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Grandmother Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Susan Nightingale
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Third World feminist agrarian struggles and the colonial question for transnational feminist solidarity Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Lyn Ossome
abstract Third World agrarian feminists have, through debates and struggles over the course of at least nine decades, explored the meanings of liberation – directly through involvement in land and agrarian struggles, and indirectly through solidarity with movements against raising other related social justice questions. The link between feminist agrarian movements and the broader movements is partly
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Food, work and sensuous materiality: Immigrant Muslim women living in Fordsburg, Johannesburg Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Safiya Bobat
abstract In this article food and food practices are used as a lens to access the narratives of identity constructed by immigrant Muslim women living in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, an urban space renowned for its many eating places and street food culture. Fordsburg, affectionately known as ‘Foodsburg’ to locals, has played host to diverse communities in its history who have left their influence in numerous
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African feminisms for abolitionist futures: archival hauntings in a speculative geography Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 S.M. Rodriguez
abstract The interdependent, collective agency shown by women of African descent reveals the possibility of making Black lives matter, even in the death-worlding structures of carceralism and coloniality. This article emancipates penal abolitionist theorising from whiteness by centring Black political womanhood. I argue that the legacy of anti-imperial and anti-capitalist struggle contributes to an
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Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Serawit B. Debele
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Greener on the other side: tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Pralini Naidoo
abstract My research, with its focus on women and food seed through the lens of indenture, has led me into the world of leafy green vegetables and their intimate connection to women who had been brought to South Africa to service colonial plantations. Leafy greens are currently buzzwords in the fitness, health, vegan, and vegetarian vocabulary. Occasionally, another leaf is discovered by the doyens
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Vulnerabilities, power, and gendered violence in food systems Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Rejoice Chipuriro
abstract Food systems present a complex web of interests and within this web exists different levels of vulnerabilities, inclusions, or exclusions, depending on the levels of power accessible to different interest groups. In addition, due to the global interconnections, more complexities have been added to local and national food systems. As national boundaries and rules enmesh into more powerful global
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The work of making things work: A review of Practices of Repair Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Naadira Patel
Published in Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender: Mapping women and caste in Samskara and The Weave of My Life Agenda (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Thiyagaraj Gurunathan, Rajbir Samal, Binod Mishra
abstract The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste