Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Mageza-Barthel, Rirhandu

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“…25 Once women have served in key roles during times of national crisis, they gain legitimacy as relevant actors in social and political spaces 21. See Berry 2015Berry , 2018Hughes 2009;Hughes and Tripp 2015;Mageza-Barthel 2015;Meintjes, Turshen, and Pillay 2001;Stiehm 2010;Wood 2008Wood , 2015 22. Johnson-Sirleaf 2009, 261.…”

Section: War As a Catalyst For Women's Empowermentmentioning

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Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment

Webster¹,

Chen²,

Beardsley³

2019

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How do periods of conflict and peace shape women's empowerment around the world? While existing studies have demonstrated that gender inequalities contribute to the propensity for armed conflict, we consider how the anticipation and realization of armed conflict shape women's opportunities for influence in society. Some scholars have pointed to the role that militarization and threat play in entrenching male dominance, while others have argued that periods of warfare can upend existing gender hierarchical orders. We posit mechanisms by which the preparation for and experiences during war affect change in women's empowerment. We develop and test observable implications using cross-national data from 1900 to 2015. We find that, at least in the short and medium term, warfare can disrupt social institutions and lead to an increase in women's empowerment via mechanisms related to role shifts across society and political shifts catalyzed by war. Reforming institutions and mainstreaming gender during peace processes stand to have important legacies for gender power relations in postconflict societies, though much more may be needed for more permanent change.

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Section: War As a Catalyst For Women's Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment

Webster¹,

Chen²,

Beardsley³

2019

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“…Women’s expanded responsibilities include caring for orphans, seeking paid employment, dealing with authorities and in many other ways shouldering the difficult and painful tasks of rebuilding lives and communities after the genocide (Thomson, 2010: 567). Building on these social transformations, the RPF-led government has made gender equality into a central policy component, and the 2003 constitution is considered the turning point for mainstreaming gender-sensitive legislation, providing for instruments such as the constitutional quota, which paved the way for one of the world’s highest representations of women in parliament (Mageza-Barthel, 2015: 103). Some important law changes have been made concerning inheritance rights, the appointment of women has been mainstreamed in the top-down restructuring of government administration from national to village level, and programmes are in place to combat domestic violence (Burnet, 2012).…”

Section: Gender and Genocide In Rwandamentioning

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“…Some important law changes have been made concerning inheritance rights, the appointment of women has been mainstreamed in the top-down restructuring of government administration from national to village level, and programmes are in place to combat domestic violence (Burnet, 2012). Post-genocide transformations were very much driven by Rwandan women strategically engaging with politics within political parties, as well as in civil society and on the international arena, recasting women ‘as agents of reconstruction’ (Mageza-Barthel, 2015: 94). These actions took place in a society with deeply entrenched patriarchal values and systems of distribution in which women did not exercise any control over economic resources (Jefremovas, 1991: 379).…”

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“…At the same time, it is important to note that the subject position of victim may hold significant leverage, which women’s organizations recognize (e.g. Mageza-Barthel, 2015: 94). For example, the widows’ organization Avega advocates for recognition of women’s unique suffering during and after the genocide (personal interview, Kigali, January 2015).…”

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Gender, narrative and affect: Top-down politics of commemoration in post-genocide Rwanda

Selimovic

2017

Memory Studies

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This article takes an interest in gendered memory politics and addresses the dearth of research on gender and commemoration in relation to the genocide in Rwanda. It analyses elite-produced gendered narratives at key sites of commemoration and investigates their affective role in constituting the post-genocide Rwandan state. Through a methodological approach of ‘the situated gaze’, three central observations are made. First, women are mourned as a specific category of rape victims and mothers. Second, women’s experiences of sexual violence are at the same time censored and de-individualized. Third, no other experiences, beyond being a victim, are taken into account. The article finds that the top-down affective memory politics circumscribes the role women played during and after the genocide, and restricts their agency within the present state project of ‘national unity and reconciliation’.

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“…Of course women politicians have also found their space in representing women’s issues and they are the ones in civil society and the state who seek international dialogue with counterparts abroad. In this manner, they have engaged transnational gender politics and impacted the global gender agenda, just like their fellow African sisters (Mageza-Barthel 2015).…”

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Ethiopia’s Asian Options: A Collage of African and Asian Entanglements

2017

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Africa-Asia relations are a controversial subject at the moment and many authors have attempted to shed light on what the renewed relations between Africa and Asia entail. Some have denounced what they see as a 'New Scramble for Africa', while others have identified the possibilities offered by these new South-South relations and have drawn attention to the impact of African agency in this new constellation. This article follows on from these discussions by reading the growing global dynamic as a collage of African and Asian entanglements. It is based on research conducted within the University of Frankfurt's Inter-Centre programme on Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO). In line with the programme's empirical, comparative and trans-regional objectives, the three authors conduct research on the interactions between Africa and Asia. 1

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Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda

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Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment

Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment

Gender, narrative and affect: Top-down politics of commemoration in post-genocide Rwanda

Ethiopia’s Asian Options: A Collage of African and Asian Entanglements

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