Index
Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South
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Publication date: 17 September 2021
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(2021), "Index", Adomako Ampofo, A. and Beoku-Betts, J. (Ed.) Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 31), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 249-257. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620210000031014
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INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
Academic approaches to hearing subaltern voices
, 219–220
Action/movement
, 110
Activism
, 44
Adivasi
, 66
Adventures, sexuality unscripted
, 154–156
Adventures from the bedrooms of african women
, 151, 152–153, 156, 158
African cyberfeminism
, 57
African feminism
, 45, 148
African feminist (see also Feminist)
activists
, 57, 148, 243, 245–246
collaborative intellectual work
, 55–56
contextualizing African feminist standpoints
, 44–49
continental and transnational collaborations
, 53–55
digital activism
, 57–58
epistemologies
, 44, 47–48, 56
and gender scholar activism
, 44
journals
, 53
land
, 57
scholars
, 149–150, 230
selected themes in current African feminist and gender studies research
, 56
situating African women’s and gender studies programs
, 49–53
young feminist activism
, 58–59
African Feminist Forum
, 49, 54
African Gender Institute (AGI)
, 51
African Gender Scholars
, 231–236
African gender studies
, 12, 187–188
African masculinities
, 187–189
examining
, 191–193
African men
, 16, 46, 186–188, 191
African Protocol
, 54
African women
, 189–190, 230
and digital divide
, 151–152
protocol
, 150
Age
, 1
age-specific groups
, 220
intersectionalities in
, 14
Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT)
, 244
Anglophone Caribbean
, 171
Asian University for Women (AUW)
, 220
students
, 221
Association of African Women on Research and Development (AAWORD)
, 49, 53–54
Auto-ethnographical approach
, 220
Autonomous feminism
, 66
Autonomous women’s movement
, 66–70, 72, 75
Baatein Aman Ki campaign (Conversations of Peace campaign)
, 76
Bahujan feminism
, 66
BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights
, 55
“Barbaric” types of genders
, 27
Bedone Taroff
, 131
Behavior
, 95
Beijing Conference on Women
, 80
Beliefs contesting prejudice
, 94
Black communities
, 4
Black female sexuality
, 48
Black feminist studies
, 44
Black males
, 188, 237
Black men
, 230
Black women
, 4, 237, 239
Blogs
, 57, 73
Bodily integrity
, 48, 54, 58
Body
, 110
Brazil
feminism in
, 83
participatory state feminism and intersectional emancipatory feminism in
, 80–82
Brazilian participatory state feminism
, 80
women praxis in
, 95
Brazilian women’s and feminist movements
, 80
Breadwinner
, 196
#BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign
, 58
Buen Vivir
, 112–114
Caribbean cyberfeminism
, 178
Caribbean cyberfeminists
, 170
Caribbean feminisms
, 168–169
Caribbean feminist legacy
, 171–174
contemporary online feminist activists
, 178–181
contemporary reflections and evaluations
, 174–175
feminist theory students
, 175–178
gender justice and feminist
, 170–171
Caribbean feminists
, 170
Celebrity and social media activism
, 137–139
Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA)
, 50
Chaharshanbeh-ha-ye Sefid
, 143n11
Citizenship rights
, 8
Civil and political associational life
, 96
Class
, 1, 47
Collaboration
, 59
Colonial hegemony
, 4
Colonialism
, 1, 4, 26, 46–47, 230
Combating Rape Act
, 235
Commercial agriculture
, 56
Community of communities
, 118
Conceptualisations
, 172
Conflict and women’s activism
, 149
Contemporarity
, 48
Contemporary Dalit feminisms
, 70–73
Contemporary online feminist activists
, 178–181
Contemporary young African masculinities
African masculinities
, 188–189
decolonial approach
, 191–193
explaining manhood and provider role
, 193–200
male provider and subordination of women
, 204–205
men, work, and provisioning
, 189–191
provider
, 200–203
social problems
, 186–187
Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
, 99
Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
, 49
Counterpublics
, 10
Criminal Law
, 234
Critical African Feminists
, 47
Critical transnational feminist approach
, 25
Critical transnational scholars
, 28–29
Cultural Christianity
, 190
Cyberactivity in Iran
, 129–131
Cyberfeminisms
, 175–176, 178
Cyberworld
, 132–133
Dalit feminism
, 66
debate
, 66–70
in EPW
, 66
Dalit politics
, 66
Dalit standpoint
, 66
#dalitwomenfight
, 73
Decentralization
, 49
Decolonial approaches
, 26, 191–193
Decoloniality
, 26
Decolonizing methodologies
, 25
Deregulation
, 49
Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN)
, 54
Development and Women’s Studies Program (DAWS)
, 50
Development funding
, 215, 222
Diaspora voices
, 149
Digital activism
, 57–58, 150
African women and digital divide
, 151–152
feminist social media activists
, 153
GhanaFeminism and adventures
, 153–156
Ghanaian digital feminist activists
, 152–153
Ghanaian feminist style
, 148
internet activism in Africa
, 150–151
interviews
, 165
listening
, 158–161
MindofMalaka and Pepper Dem Ministries
, 156–158
women and economic life
, 148–149
Digital divide, African women and
, 151–152
Digital feminism
, 162
Digital technology
, 57–58
Dignity
, 48
Disability
, 1
Divorce
, 213
Domestic violence
, 230, 232, 234
Domestic Violence Act
, 234, 243
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)
, 66
dalit feminism in
, 66
Economic crisis (1990)
, 239
Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP)
, 232
Economic violence
, 234
Emancipatory praxis
, 96
Emotional abuse
, 234
Empowerment
, 59
of women
, 90
Epistemic violence
, 5
Epistemicides
, 109, 120n5
Ethical practices
, 219
Ethnicity
, 1, 47
Eurocentric
, 3
assumptions
, 191
beliefs
, 4
feminism
, 111
knowledge
, 4
understandings of citizenship
, 9
European colonialism
, 190
Eurostat data
, 219
Facebook
, 57, 58, 130, 132
Failed conversations
, 70–75
Family
, 148
#FeesMustFall
, 47, 59
Feminism
, 7, 45–46, 65–66, 149, 221 (see also Caribbean feminisms)
attitudes of women in Brazilian participatory state feminism
, 92–95
in Brazil and Latin America
, 83
Challenges Heritage of Sociology
, 215
defined by women of NCPW
, 84–92
feminism of NCPW women activists
, 98–99
from intersectional and emancipatory perspective
, 83–84
participatory state feminism and intersectional emancipatory feminism
, 80–82
researching participatory state feminism activists
, 82
and southern theory in mind
, 212
women praxis in Brazilian participatory state feminism
, 95
Feminist
feminist/gender knowledges
, 212
leadership
, 59
movements
, 56
pedagogy
, 221
praxis and theories
, 83
sidestreaming
, 81
social media activists
, 153
Feminist Africa
, 149, 233
Feminist digital activism
, 56
Feminist identities
, 83
Feminist interventions
, 32
Feminist knowledge production
, 103–104, 106
Feminist theory
, 212, 214
students
, 175–178
Feminist voice positioning
challenging hegemonic discourses and epistemologies
, 4–6
dilemmas and contestati ons in bringing southern voices to table
, 6–7
feminist discourses in global south contexts
, 7–12
in Global South
, 1–2
methodological approaches
, 12–13
politics of knowledge production
, 2–4
Femocracy
, 235
#FreeEducation
, 59
movements
, 47
#gam-ani
, 222
Gender
, 47
equality
, 80, 90, 98
in feminist theory
, 1
gender-related knowledges
, 212
gender-specific groups
, 220
gender-specific individual variables
, 219
information and knowledge
, 218
justice
, 12, 65, 70, 76
knowledge
, 217
mainstreaming
, 80–81
practitioners
, 220
scholar activism
, 44
scholarship and pedagogy
, 221
scripting
, 242
and violence
, 149
and Women’s Studies Network
, 149–150
Gender-based violence (GBV)
, 56, 148, 222, 230–231
issues
, 243
severity
, 179
in Southern Africa
, 243
Geopolitical economic processes
, 46
GhanaFeminism
, 58, 151–153
academic approach
, 153–154
and adventures
, 153
sexuality unscripted adventures
, 154–156
Ghanaian digital feminist activists
, 152–153
Global binaries
, 24, 27
Global economic processes
, 1
Global feminist knowledges and practices
, 211–212
academic approaches to hearing subaltern voices
, 219–220
pedagogy and scholarship
, 221–222
positionality
, 212–214
practitioner approaches to hearing subaltern voices
, 220–221
sharing understandings and objectives
, 222–223
Southern perspectives
, 214–219
Global Gag policy
, 59
Global South
, 2–3
feminist voice positioning
, 1–2
troubling
, 65–66
Globalization
, 46–47, 56, 222
Good Living/Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay
, 113
Green Movement
, 127
Group Areas Act (1950)
, 240
Guardian, The
, 135
Hegemonic masculinity
, 189
Helen Keller International (HKI)
, 221
Heterogeneity of indegeneity
, 32–34
Heterogeneous indigenous knowledge
, 32
Heterogeneous women’s movements and feminist scholarship
, 171–
Heterosexual matrix
, 27
Heterosexual women
, 46
#HimToo
, 70–75
HIV/AIDS
, 234, 240–241, 242
crisis
, 48
pandemic
, 230
Homophobia
, 93–94
Horizontal fluxes of feminism
, 81
Housewife
, 190
Hybrid masculinity
, 189
Imperialism
, 47
Indegeneity
and challenges of creating inclusive knowledge
, 42
heterogeneity of
, 32–34
India
contemporary Dalit feminisms
, 70–73
Dalit feminism debate
, 66–70
#MeToo, #HimToo, and Failed Conversations
, 70–75
moving forward together
, 75–76
troubling global South
, 65–66
Indigenous dualism
, 113, 115–116
Indigenous feminisms
, 104–105
Indigenous feminist agenda
Buen Vivir
, 112–114
community of communities
, 118
feminist bridges and epistemic possibilities
, 112
indigenous dualism
, 115–116
indigenous peoples in Latin America
, 106–109
in Latin America
, 104–106
solidarity political experiences
, 116–118
territory body-earth
, 114–115
theoretical and conceptual formulations of indigenous feminist knowledge production
, 109–112
Indigenous feminist knowledge production
, 109–112
Indigenous peoples in Latin America
, 106–109
Indigenous women
, 9–10, 104
Individualism
, 12, 118, 136
Indo-Caribbean feminist
, 173
Information technology
, 44
Instagram
, 130
Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS)
, 170
Ignite
, 176
Institutional Review Boards
, 219
Institutionalization
, 49, 80
Intellectual politics
, 149
Interconnections
, 196
Internal enemies
, 130
International Committee of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
, 213
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 45
International Women’s Decade (IWD)
, 70
Internet activism in Africa
, 150–151
Intersectional analysis
, 10
Intersectional approach
, 1
Intersectional emancipatory feminism
, 82, 99
in Brazil
, 80–82
Intersectional feminism
, 96
Intersectional/emancipator
, 90
Intersectionality
, 26
Intimate partner violence (IPV)
, 241
Iran
, 135–136
Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Technology (ICT)
, 129
Iranian feminism sheds skin
, 141–142
Iranian social media, feminist challenges in
Beh Tou Cheh?
, 125–126
celebrity and social media activism
, 137–139
cyberactivity in Iran
, 129–131
out of exile, entering cyberworld
, 132–133
expressing dissent through social media
, 128–129
Iranian feminism sheds skin
, 141–142
Iranian women’s activism
, 127–128
Iranian women’s activists chime in
, 139–141
online expression meets offline consequences
, 133–137
Iranian women
activism
, 127–128
activists chime in
, 139–141
ISA RC 32 Women and Society
, 213
Katswe Sistahood
, 245
Kinship alliance
, 113
Knowledge
, 217
politics of knowledge production
, 2–4
Knowledge hierarchies
examples from pages and descriptors
, 40–41
feminist interventions
, 32
heterogeneity of indegeneity
, 32–34
ideas and practices within scholarly spaces
, 25–28
indegeneity and challenges of creating inclusive knowledge
, 42
knowledge world out there and challenge for feminists
, 30–32
methodological dilemmas
, 32
reflections on knowledge hierarchies, structures, and practices
, 25
structures of silence and silencing
, 34–35
transnational assemblages beyond academia
, 28–30
Labor and gendered livelihoods
, 149
LAC
, 112, 118
Land
, 57, 149
Large-scale land acquisition
, 56
Latin America
feminism in
, 83
indigenous peoples in
, 106–109
Law reform
, 56
Leadership
, 10
of indigenous women
, 106–109
Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer/questioning feminism (LGBTQ feminism)
, 222, 66
Lesbophobia
, 94
Liberate feminist scholarship
, 66
Life Orientation programs
, 242
Local or regional non-governmental organizations (INGOs)
, 215, 217
Māhū
, 217
Male provider and subordination of women
, 204–205
Manhood and provider role
, 193
being provider
, 196–200
strong, assertive, protector, and head of household
, 193–196
Manorama, Ruth (NFDW)
, 70
Marginality
, 33
Marginalization
, 25, 42, 47–49, 172
Masculinity
, 190–191
Memory
, 110
Men, work, and provisioning
, 189–191
Messaging applications
, 130
#MeToo
, 70–75, 222
Middle class feminist scholars
, 4
Militarism
, 56, 149
MindofMalaka
, 151, 152–153, 156–158
Mindofmalaka
, 58
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
, 238
Musasa Project
, 234, 243
Trust
, 231–232
Muslim
, 66
My Stealthy Freedom
, 126, 131, 134, 137–139
National Conferences for Policies For Women (NCPW)
, 81, 83
feminism defined by women of
, 84–92
feminism of NCPW women activists
, 98–99
National Plans for Policies for Women (NPPW)
, 81
National politricks
, 149
National Truth Commission
, 112
Nationality
, 1
Native (Black) Urban Areas Act No. 21 of 1923
, 240
Negative radical
, 89
Negofeminism
, 46
Neoliberal capitalism
, 1
Neoliberal economic policies
, 47, 49–50
Neoliberal economic reforms
, 46
“Nonconsenual” sexual relations
, 234
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
, 50, 132, 215, 217, 231
Knowledge Collective Data Portal
, 214
Notimia
, 117
OECD
, 219
One Million Signatures campaign
, 143n12
Online expression meets offline consequences
, 133–137
Online feminist activists
, 178, 180
Oppression in Southern Africa
, 236–241
Organized criminal groups
, 120
Pan-African feminist epistemologies
, 44
Pan-Africanism
, 149
Participatory rural appraisal
, 220
Participatory state feminism
in Brazil
, 80–82
researching participatory state feminism activists
, 82
Patriarchal trunking/entroncamento patriarcal
, 111
Patriarchy
, 186
in Southern Africa
, 236–241
Pedagogy and scholarship
, 221–222
People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA)
, 243–244
Pepper Dem Ministries (PDM)
, 58, 151, 156–158
Physical sexual
, 234
Platform for Action
, 80
Policies for Women
, 81–82
Politics
, 148
Politics of knowledge production
, 2–4
Popular culture
, 56
Post colonies
, 2
Postcolonial
, 3
gender dynamics
, 216
Potentially Intersectional Civil and Political Associational Life Index (PICPALI)
, 96–97
Poverty
, 241
reduction strategy programs
, 49
Power-sharing
, 59
Practice
, 8, 12, 16, 108, 223
Practitioner approaches to hearing subaltern voices
, 220–221
Principles of participation
, 59
Privatization
, 49
Pro Intersectional Feminism Attitudes Index (PIFAI)
, 94
Provider
, 200–203
manhood and provider role
, 193–200
Psychological abuse
, 234
Quagmire of violence against women
defining violence against women
, 231–236
gender-based violence
, 241–243
NGOs efforts and feminist activists to address gender-based violence
, 243–245
oppression, violence, patriarchy and women’s resistance in Southern Africa
, 236–241
Quantitative techniques
, 219
QUIPU Project
, 220
Race
, 1, 47
race-based system of stratification
, 239
Racial discrimination
, 94
Racialization
, 26–27
Racism
, 93
Radical Intersectional African feminism
, 47
Reflective evaluation
, 168
Reflexivity
, 65
Responsibilities men
, 193
Rights feminism
, 84
Rights of women
, 90
Savarna feminism
, 66
Scholar/activism
, 44
Scientific colonialism
, 7
Self-branding
, 136
Sexism
, 93, 175
Sexual abuse
, 232
Sexual assault
, 230, 234
Sexual division of labor
, 186
Sexual harassment
, 222
Sexual Harassment Network Program
, 233
Sexual IPV
, 241
Sexual violence
, 234
Sexuality
, 1, 148–149
studies
, 56
Silence
, 34–35
Silencing
, 34–35
Skill access
, 151–152
Skype
, 57
Slavery
, 4
Social change
, 27, 218
Social justice
, 24
Social media
, 73
celebrity and social media activism
, 137–139
networks
, 44, 130
Social science scholarship
, 186
Social stratification analyses
, 186
Social theory
, 214
Solidarity political experiences
, 116–118
South African Constitution (2012)
, 243
Southern Africa
, 16, 51, 230, 232, 243
Southern feminist scholars
, 4
Southern masculinities
, 216
Southern perspectives on feminist knowledges and practices
, 214–219
Southern theory
, 27, 212
Space
, 110
State feminism
, 235
State participatory feminism
, 81
State-sponsored violence
, 236
Stiwanism
, 46
Structural adjustment programs (SAPs)
, 49
Student-led movements
, 59
Subaltern counterpublic
, 10
“Sugar-daddy” culture
, 242–243
Sunday Telegraph
, 239
Survey definitions of feminism
, 80–85
Synthetic drugs
, 130
Technology
, 220
Teenz Alliance Project
, 244–245
Telegram
, 130, 132
Territory body-earth
, 113, 114–115
“The Better Life for Rural Women” Program
, 235
Time
, 110
“Traditional” African societies
, 186
Training locals
, 220
Transformation of social issues
, 222
Transformative social policy
, 191
Transnational approach
, 1
Transnational assemblages
, 14, 24, 28–30, 35
Transnational feminism
, 84, 88, 99
Transnational feminist (see also African feminist)
movements
, 44
networks
, 50
Transphobia
, 94
Twitter
, 57–58, 130, 132
Unemployment
, 239
United Nations Development Fund for Women
, 240
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
, 223
Violence
in Southern Africa
, 236–241
against women
, 231–236
Vulnerability
, 52
Web-based portals
, 73
Well-being
, 48
West-centric epistemologies
, 3, 24
Western colonization of non-White societies
, 4
Western feminists
, 5
Western knowledge systems
, 4
Whatsapp
, 57–58, 130
Woman police
, 218
Women
, 47
and AIDS Support Network
, 234
and economic life
, 148–149
and gender studies
, 51, 221, 223
male provider and subordination of
, 204–205
movement
, 9, 14–15, 75, 93, 173, 243
praxis in Brazilian participatory state feminism
, 95
resistance in Southern Africa
, 236–241
rights
, 51
violence against
, 231–236
Women’s Action Group
, 234
Women’s Educational Equity Act
, 222
Work
men, provisioning and
, 189–191
women in
, 148
World Bank
, 45, 219
Yoruba language
, 44–45
Young feminist activism
, 56, 58–59
Young women
, 245
Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
, 236
Zimbabwean Constitution (2013)
, 243
Zimbabwean women’s movement
, 234
- Prelims
- Introduction: Positioning Feminist Voices in the Global South
- Part I: Perspectives on Feminisms and Knowledge Production
- Chapter 1: Knowledge Hierarchies and Feminist Dilemmas: Contexts, Assemblages, Voices, and Silences
- Chapter 2: African Feminist and Gender Scholarship: Contemporary Standpoints and Sites of Activism
- Chapter 3: Dalit and Autonomous Feminisms in India
- Chapter 4: What Does Feminism Mean to You? Are you a Feminist? Brazilian Activists’ Definitions and Praxis of Emancipatory Intersectional Feminism
- Chapter 5: Recent Changes in Indigenous Feminist Agenda in Latin America
- Part II: Young Feminists and Digital Approaches to Scholarship and Activism
- Chapter 6: Beh Tou Cheh? (What’s It to You?): Feminist Challenges in Iranian Social Media
- Chapter 7: Digital Activism Ghanaian Feminist Style
- Chapter 8: Are We There Yet? Contemporary Struggles for Gender Justice and the Legacy of Caribbean Feminisms
- Part III: Feminist Knowledge Production in Applied Contexts
- Chapter 9: “I Can Weep But Not Wail”: Contemporary Young African Masculinities
- Chapter 10: Working Toward Global Feminist Knowledges and Practices
- Chapter 11: Exploring the Quagmire of Violence Against Women: Feminist Scholarship and Activism in Southern Africa
- Index