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

利特尔/多兰9310537东非最近广泛发展的承包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。由于面对不断变化的经济关系，性别关系被重新定义，以传统家庭为基础的权力关系和社会分工的划定是分析承包农业的关键。虽然对肯尼亚的少数合同计划进行了深入研究，但实际上有一些从家庭或性别角度审查合同生产的本地化分析。此外，尽管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，但在东非基本上没有这种研究。这一差距为深入研究肯尼亚两性关系和合同生产的相互关系提供了良机，这将为非洲土地变化的比较研究提供宝贵的数据。需要解决的重要问题包括：1)社会经济条件如何促进或制约土著性别关系？2)承包农业的好处属于谁？3)分包的性别分工有变化吗？4)在承包农业的背景下，传统的社会习俗是如何被操纵或重塑的？5)土著性别意识形态如何影响承包农业作为一种社会制度和资本积累手段的再生产？*S(通过他们的RTG。我想你已经知道常规的国家科学基金会了研究生奖学金计划，支持所有科学以及历史和Za的研究生学习S X Z！！F？Z L时代新罗马符号&A；Arial&A；Lucida Sans Bookman Old Style z z||z c“h)@g Little Dolan抽象论文抽象小Dolan Raymond Hmes Raymond Hmes

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