Index

Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South

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ISSN: 1529-2126

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