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Globalizing the Postcolony
Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone AfricaAfter the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 18.12.2010 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739143841 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 340 |
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Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing areas which began systematically in 1990 and which has provided a framework for policy-making in this field. International reports suggest that the francophone African countries have been experiencing low levels of social development throughout the past two decades. These levels fall dramatically when the factor of gender is introduced to the point where statistically-speaking francophone African women have had less access to social development than any other population in the world. This study analyzes current thinking on the challenges facing gender and development in Africa, before moving on to examine the historical factors marking the gender and development profile of the francophone West African region. Through an analysis of gender politics in the region from pre-colonial to postcolonial times, the book examines the gradual incursion of exogenous gender policies into the region throughout the 20th century. The discussion concludes by arguing that despite the tendency of the international community, and their colonial administrative forebears, to pursue 'one-size-fits-all' solutions to what they identified as the main development challenges of the day, the impact of standardized solutions remains subject to the unique historical and cultural context in which they are implemented. Adapting formula-driven policies to unique cultural contexts constitutes a major challenge for gender and development politics in the second decade of the new century. Meanwhile, the book coincides with the introduction of a new international development agenda in Africa articulated around issues of security and globalization. While civil unrest continues to destabilize vast regions of the continent making the prospects of human and social development ever more remote, the rise of China among the traditional powerbrokers threatens to push social development and gender equality even further down the international agenda for Africa. This book is a timely reminder of the feminisation of poverty and disadvantage in the region and the need to keep the gender dimensions of development at the top of the social policy agenda for Africa in the 21st century.
Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing areas, which began systematically in 1990 and which has provided a framework for policy-making in this field. This study analyzes current thinking on the challenges facing gender and development in Africa, before moving on to examine the historical factors marking the gender and development profile of the francophone West African region. Through an analysis of gender politics in the region from pre-colonial to postcolonial times, the book examines the gradual incursion of exogenous gender policies into the region throughout the 20th century.
Part 1 Part One: Is There a Gender and Development Crisis in Francophone Africa?
<br>Chapter 2 Chapter One: Gender and Development in Francophone Africa: The Making of a Crisis
<br>Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Science, Statistics, & Stories: In Search of Methodology
<br>Part 4 Part Two: When Gender and Development Went Global
<br>Chapter 5 Chapter Three: The Origins of a Global Discourse, 1945 to1990
<br>Chapter 6 Chapter Four: 'Good Governance' for Development, 1990-2000
<br>Chapter 7 Chapter Five: The Millennium Summit and Beyond: Writing Women out of Development?
<br>Part 8 Part Three: From the Global to the Postcolony: Data Profiling in Gabon and Senegal
<br>Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Mapping Gender and Development: The Tools of the Trade
<br>Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Senegal: A Monitoring Model for Francophone Africa?
<br>Chapter 11 Chapter Eight: Gabon: At the Limits of the Data Profile
<br>Chapter 12 Chapter Nine: Measuring Gender and Development: Challenges for Francophone Africa
<br>Part 13 Part Four: In Search of Context and Culture 1: Historicizing Gender
<br>Chapter 14 Chapter Ten: Sex and Status in Pre-colonial Africa
<br>Chapter 15 Chapter Eleven: Engendering the Colony: France in Africa
<br>Part 16 Part Five: In Search of Context and Culture : Locating Gender
<br>Chapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Speaking the Language of Gender and Development in Senegal
<br>Chapter 18 Chapter Thirteen: International Agencies and the Agenda for Change in Senegal
<br>Chapter 19 Chapter Fourteen: Theorizing Gender and Development in the Academy
<br>Chapter 20 Chapter Fifteen: Voicing Dissent and Contesting Change in Civil Society
<br>Part 21 Part Six: Writing Gender and Development: Culture, Context, and Change in Francophone Africa
<br>Chapter 22 Chapter Sixteen: The Literary Politics of Gender and Development
<br>Chapter 23 Chapter Seventeen: Writing Gender and Development: the Birth of a Literary Voice
<br>Chapter 24 Chapter Eighteen: Modernization and Marginalization in the Francophone African Feminist Novel
<br>Part 25 Conclusions
<br>Chapter 26 Chapter Nineteen: Harnessing Culture for Gender and Development
<br>Chapter 2 Chapter One: Gender and Development in Francophone Africa: The Making of a Crisis
<br>Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Science, Statistics, & Stories: In Search of Methodology
<br>Part 4 Part Two: When Gender and Development Went Global
<br>Chapter 5 Chapter Three: The Origins of a Global Discourse, 1945 to1990
<br>Chapter 6 Chapter Four: 'Good Governance' for Development, 1990-2000
<br>Chapter 7 Chapter Five: The Millennium Summit and Beyond: Writing Women out of Development?
<br>Part 8 Part Three: From the Global to the Postcolony: Data Profiling in Gabon and Senegal
<br>Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Mapping Gender and Development: The Tools of the Trade
<br>Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Senegal: A Monitoring Model for Francophone Africa?
<br>Chapter 11 Chapter Eight: Gabon: At the Limits of the Data Profile
<br>Chapter 12 Chapter Nine: Measuring Gender and Development: Challenges for Francophone Africa
<br>Part 13 Part Four: In Search of Context and Culture 1: Historicizing Gender
<br>Chapter 14 Chapter Ten: Sex and Status in Pre-colonial Africa
<br>Chapter 15 Chapter Eleven: Engendering the Colony: France in Africa
<br>Part 16 Part Five: In Search of Context and Culture : Locating Gender
<br>Chapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Speaking the Language of Gender and Development in Senegal
<br>Chapter 18 Chapter Thirteen: International Agencies and the Agenda for Change in Senegal
<br>Chapter 19 Chapter Fourteen: Theorizing Gender and Development in the Academy
<br>Chapter 20 Chapter Fifteen: Voicing Dissent and Contesting Change in Civil Society
<br>Part 21 Part Six: Writing Gender and Development: Culture, Context, and Change in Francophone Africa
<br>Chapter 22 Chapter Sixteen: The Literary Politics of Gender and Development
<br>Chapter 23 Chapter Seventeen: Writing Gender and Development: the Birth of a Literary Voice
<br>Chapter 24 Chapter Eighteen: Modernization and Marginalization in the Francophone African Feminist Novel
<br>Part 25 Conclusions
<br>Chapter 26 Chapter Nineteen: Harnessing Culture for Gender and Development
Claire H. Griffiths is professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Chester, UK, and former senior research fellow in the WISE Institute at the University of Hull.
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