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

Little/Dolan 9310537 东非合同农业最近的广泛发展有可能从根本上改变男女之间的劳动分工和权力关系。 该项目将审查园艺承包的制度和扩大如何改变肯尼亚梅鲁区的性别关系。 由于面对不断变化的经济关系，性别关系被重新定义，因此基于传统家庭的权力关系和社会分工的划分是分析订单农业的关键。 在某些地区，妇女参与订单农业引发了家庭内部关于劳工权利和资源分配的斗争。 虽然对肯尼亚的少数承包计划进行了深入研究，但实际上也有从家庭或性别角度审查承包生产的地方性分析。 此外，虽然在西非对基于性别的作物与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性别关系与合同生产之间的关系提供了一个良好的机会，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研究方法-女性主义人类学，政治经济学和实践理论-将象征主义和唯物主义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成或限制土著性别关系？ 2)合同农业的好处是给谁的？ 3)分包的性别分工是否发生变化？ 4)在代耕的背景下，社会习俗是如何被操纵或改变的？ 5)土著性别意识形态如何影响合同农业作为一种社会制度和资本积累手段的再生产？ *** s（t（gh）他们的RTG。 我想你已经知道定期的NSF研究生奖学金计划，支持所有科学以及历史的研究生学习， z 一 S X z ! ! F ? z 一 z L Times New Roman 符号Arial Lucida Sans&& 旧风格的书呆子 z z | | z C " H ) @ G 小多兰摘要摘要论文摘要小多兰雷蒙德·哈姆斯雷蒙德·哈姆斯

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