Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa
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2021
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Journal of Political Economy
Abstract
In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution
and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender,
ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation
remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which
the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly important
concern for feminist agrarian theorizations. In contribution to these
debates, this article examines the ways in which feminist concerns have
shaped, driven, and defined the social and political parameters of agrarian
movements in Africa. Even though agrarian movements articulating
gender questions are not generalizable as feminist, their concern
with social, political, and economic structures of oppression and their
approach to gendered oppression as a political question lends them
to characterization as being feminist. Through an examination of the
changing forms of women-led agrarian struggles, the article shows how
women’s responses to the dominant structures and conditions of colonial
and post-colonial capitalist accumulation could be characterized as
feminist due to their social and political imperatives behind women’s
resistance.
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Feminism, Gender, Women’s resistance, Peasantry
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Ossome, L. (2021). Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 10(1), 41-58. DOI: 10.1177/22779760211000939