Proceedings of the African Futures Conference最新文献

{"title":"Determining the Fate of Children: Child Socialization Through Oral Traditions in Amhara Region, North Western Ethiopia","authors":"Mezgebu Mengistie","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000072.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000072.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"38 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123438865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Knowing ‘Her' Status”: Sex, Gender, and Women's Rights in HIV and AIDs Campaigns, Lesotho","authors":"Mary Danielle Mpalirwa","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000017.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000017.X","url":null,"abstract":"Young women in Lesotho are a high-risk group for new HIV infections despite a heavy investment in health programs for that demographic. This study investigates sexual rights discourses by both NGOs and local Basotho women to evaluate how much they align to promote women’s sexual empowerment. The underlying assumption is that how women’s rights are framed and incorporated into HIV campaigns reflects, and seeks to effect, certain social mores that may not resonate with Basotho women’s own views on sexual rights, with significant implications for the success of HIV prevention efforts. A critical discourse analysis of interviews and focus group data is used to conclude that NGOs promote discourses on women’s sexual rights that align with the discourses prevalent among local young women. However, both discourses reinforce cultural frames of women’s sexual rights that reinforce women’s sexual subservience and disempowerment, thus accounting for young women’s continued vulnerability to HIV infections.","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116508893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting Past Violence: Mystic Arts as a Model for Post-War Transformation in Sierra Leone","authors":"S. Anderson","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000034.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000034.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voices of Mothers: Narratives of Alternative Maternal Healthcare and Help-Seeking among Migrant Women in Johannesburg, South Africa","authors":"Tackson Makandwa","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000090.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000090.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132355252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Port and the Island. The Dynamics of Identity and Placemaking among the Somali Diaspora in Nairobi and Johannesburg","authors":"Nereida Ripero Muñiz","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000031.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000031.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130459272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life on an Installment Plan: Social Grants, Debt and South Africa","authors":"Erin Torkelson","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000065.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000065.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132715565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land, Laws, and Legal Subjectivities in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone","authors":"Mariane C. Ferme","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000092.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000092.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"9 s3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113953082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anti-Environmentalism, Gender and Employment: Contestations Over the Construction of the ‘Frog Hotel' On Harare, Zimbabwe's Wetlands, 2012-2018","authors":"Bernard Kusena","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000089.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000089.X","url":null,"abstract":"Page 190 Africa in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production Bernard Kusena, Rhodes University Anti-Environmentalism, Gender and Employment: Contestations Over the Construction of the ‘Frog Hotel’ On Harare, Zimbabwe’s Wetlands, 2012-2018 Anti-environmentalism has gained traction as an emerging theoretical framework. and its impact on understanding the shifting boundaries of knowledge production on gender and environment arenas in Zimbabwe has been eventful and far reaching. Following the need to create jobs and increase gender balance in employment, various theorists have questioned the logic of preserving wetlands where projects that created employment could be erected. Zimbabwe Tourism Authority’s Chief Executive Officer and ardent advocate of antienvironmentalism, Karikoga Kaseke, argued that it was irrational to sacrifice potential jobs in order to save a few trees and frogs. This was in response to the heated debate over the desirability of constructing a multi-million dollar Long Cheng Plaza, nicknamed ‘the Frog Hotel’, on Harare’s wetland. The cost to the environment was considered insignificant compared to the potential for wealth generated by the project. While scholars have written extensively in favour of nurturing the environment, a gap still exists on how to balance the invidious positions between the economics of keeping the swamps intact and building investment projects on wetland areas to offset the country’s staggering ninety percent unemployment rate. This paper argues that the setting up of Long Cheng Plaza against pressure from environmentalists has proved that Zimbabwe’s efforts towards creation of wealth and reduction of gender disparities have been turned around by this project. This is particularly so in light of the fact that, alongside men, huge numbers of women have also taken up jobs in the shops within the complex. The paper first debates the contestations over changing land use patterns in urban centres, before it proceeds to address the impact of antienvironmentalism on gender and employment using primary documents. It also relies on interviews conducted at the site with various key stakeholders, in addition to secondary sources in ventilating these issues. Tackson Makandwa, University of Witwatersrand Voices of Mothers: Narratives of Alternative Maternal Healthcare and Help-Seeking among Migrant Women in Johannesburg, South Africa Background: In South Africa, the majority of migrants are found in urban centres in particular Johannesburg in Gauteng province – where legal, illegal and asylum seekers face xenophobia, and xenophobic attitude on a daily basis including in accessing maternal healthcare. Although there is substantial debate on migrants and their health and well being– little is known about their alternative maternal healthcare and help-seeking behaviours in the city. Objective: This paper considers the alternative maternal healthcare and help seeking behaviours (particularly faith-based pra","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129155935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeing African Cities: New Urbanites - New Cityscapes?","authors":"Till Förster","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000025.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000025.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114151677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Straights Can't Enjoy Others Like Them’: Sexual Identity in A Southern African Gay and Lesbian Pentecostal Church","authors":"Casey Golomski","doi":"10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000049.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/J.2573-508X.2018.TB000049.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443445,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the African Futures Conference","volume":"318 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115278392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}