African Feminisms and Justice on the Ground

Wielenga, Cori

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82128-9_2

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Dunn

2024

Social & Legal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, I explore gender justice in relation to the sociolegal status of marriage practices and how women address marital disputes. My research is based on 9 months of immersive fieldwork in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The eastern DRC has experienced extensive interventions to prosecute sexual violence and advance women's rights. However, these interventions have tended to miss the complexity of gender dynamics and how rights and justice are understood and sought by women in their everyday lives. I argue that gender justice is a process rather than an end goal and that legal pluralism, and its hybrid manifestations, is a space where that process can unfold. Through prioritizing women's experiences of marriage and separation, I contribute to the scholarship that challenges simple narratives of gendered harms in “othered” contexts and highlight the flexible space of legal pluralism to develop dialogue, ideas, and practices of contextualized gender justice.

show abstract

“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Dunn

2024

Social & Legal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

The Western Gaze and African Feminism

Hayes

2024

A Cross-Cultural Examination of Women in Higher Education and the Workplace

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognizing and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about the end of an era and the prospect of a more authentically framed future framed, shaped, and determined from within African culture and context by those. To undertake this acknowledgement and recognition is one of the first and much belated to framing steps in ensuring that the articulation of truth lies best with those whose lived truths they are, rather than any tokenistic perceptions of them, consequently articulated through Western lenses of perspective.

show abstract

Hermeneutical Injustice via Interpretive Harm

Hayes

2024

Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognizing and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional Western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about the end of an era and the prospect of a more authentically framed future framed, shaped, and determined from within African culture and context by those. To undertake this, acknowledgement and recognition is one of the first and much belated to framing steps in ensuring that the articulation of truth lies best with those whose lived truths they are, rather than any tokenistic perceptions of them, consequently articulated through Western lenses of perspective. The central tenet of the chapter revolves around the positing of African citizenship, indeed all individual citizenship as fundamentally unique and known authentically only to those who have socially constructed knowledge of it.

show abstract

African Feminisms and Justice on the Ground

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The Western Gaze and African Feminism

Hermeneutical Injustice via Interpretive Harm

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About