Dissertation Research: Contested Terrain: Gender and Labor Dynamics in Horticultural Contracting, Meru, Kenya

东非最近广泛发展的合同农业有可能从根本上改变男女之间的劳动分工和权力关系。该项目将研究园艺承包的制度和扩大如何改变肯尼亚梅鲁地区的性别关系。由于性别关系在经济关系的变化中被重新定义，因此基于传统家庭的权力关系和社会划分的描绘是分析合同农业的关键。在一些地区，妇女参与承包农业引起了家庭内部关于劳动权利和资源分配的斗争。虽然对肯尼亚的少数合同计划进行了深入研究，但从家庭或性别角度审查合同生产的分析实际上是地方性的。此外，虽然在西非对基于性别的作物和财产权之间的联系进行了广泛的研究，但在东非却基本上没有。这一差距为深入研究肯尼亚两性关系和合同生产之间的关系提供了良好的机会，这将为非洲土地变化的比较研究提供宝贵的数据。这个项目将综合各种探究方法——女性主义人类学、政治经济学和实践理论——将符号和唯物主义的方法整合到社会变革中。需要解决的重要问题包括：1)社会经济条件如何促进或限制土著性别关系？谁受益于承包农业？3)分包的性别分工是否发生了变化？4)在合同农业的背景下，习惯的社会实践是如何被操纵或重塑的？5)作为一种社会制度和资本积累手段，土著性别意识形态如何影响契约农业的再生产？*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** **。我猜你已经知道NSF的研究生奖学金项目，它支持所有科学领域的研究生学习，包括历史和人文科学S x z!!f ?za zl时代新罗马符号& & Arial & & &；字体字体& &；；；；；；；；；；；

Little/Dolan 9310537 The recent and widespread growth of contract farming in East Africa has the potential to fundamentally alter the division of labor and power relations between men and women. This project will examine how the institution and expansion of horticultural contracting is changing gender relations in Meru District, Kenya. Because gender relations are redefined in the face of shifting economic relations, the delineation of power relations and social divisions based on the traditional household is key to an analysis of contract farming. In some areas the participation of women in contract farming has provoked intra-household struggles over labor rights and resource allocation. While a small number of contracting schemes in Kenya have been intensively researched there are virtually localized analyses that examine contract production from either a household or gender perspective. Moreover, although research on the connection between gender-based crop and property rights has been extensive in West Africa, it is largely absent in East Africa. This gap provides a fertile opportunity for an in-depth local study on the interface of gender relations and contract production in Kenya that will provide valuable data for comparative studies of agrarian change in Africa. This project will synthesized various methods of inquiry-feminist anthropology, political economy and practice theory - to integrate symbolic and materialist approaches to social change. Significant questions to be addressed include: 1) how do socioeconomic conditions enable or constrain indigenous gender relations? 2) To whom are the ben efits of contract farming accruing? 3) Is there a change in the sexual division of labor of subcontracting? 4) How are customary social practices manipulated or recast in the context of contract farming? 5) How do indigenous gender ideologies affect the reproduction of contract farming as both a social institution and a means of capital accumulation? *** s( t( gh their RTG's. I assume you already know of the regular NSF Graduate Fellowship program that supports graduate study in all sciences as well as history and Z a S X Z ! ! f ? Z a Z L Times New Roman Symbol & Arial & Lucida Sans Bookman Old Style z z | | z c " h ) @ g little dolan abstract abstract thesis abstract little dolan Raymond Hames Raymond Hames