She Stays and Pays: Rural Women's Labour and Empowerment in Atakora, Northern Benin, West Africa
她留下来并付出代价:西非贝宁北部阿塔科拉农村妇女的劳动和赋权
基本信息
- 批准号:ES/X007421/1
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- 金额:$ 13.8万
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- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Fellowship
- 财政年份:2022
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2022 至 无数据
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
In my PhD thesis, I take a decolonial feminist approach to critically deconstruct the meaning and applicability of the concept of 'empowerment.' Most people are familiar with the idea of women's empowerment and we generally assume it means something positive. The same is true for the use of the term empowerment in international development theory and practice, but a deeper look at existing literature reveals that it is actually not well understood or even defined in the literature. In their review of the literature, Ibrahim and Alkire (2007) found no cohesive understanding of empowerment and instead list nearly 30 different definitions of the term. What does this term mean? How it is used? Why does it matter? These are some of the questions my research asks.As an ESRC fellow, I want to emerge as a leading decolonial feminist scholar by building upon my years of experience conducting research in rural parts of West Africa with women farmers. For my PhD, I took the northern region of Atakora in Benin as a case study where I conducted multi-year fieldwork (2017-2019) in four counties in the most northern part of the country. The aim was to better understand household poverty in rural Benin: households so often invisible due to their remote location. During data collection, research participants (n = 380) spoke a mix of French and local languages during focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted in multiple waves: (i) the general population of women in Atakora; (ii) women economically active in the horticulture value chain; (iii) women economically active in the shea butter value chain. FGDs provided a rich set of data where women spoke about their hopes and challenges; their everyday tasks and burdens. The new empirical data of my PhD calls for decolonial theory of gendered roles and associated resposibilities - theory that adequately captures the sexual division of household labour of contexts in the Global South, theory that can inform efforts at poverty reduction. The primary aim of my ESRC fellowship is to publish a book based on my PhD research. This book will contribute to a growing number of works by authors who identify as decolonial feminists such as Verges (2021), Olufemi (2020), and Carrasco-Miro (2020) who focus on Europe and Latin America. Though there are some emerging scholars working on decolonising theory based on evidence from Africa (Adams et al., 2021; Devlieger, 2021), a decolonial feminist approach is largely missing in Africa. My research fills this gap and further provides a multi-disciplinary approach that speaks the language of development economics as well as anthropology and sociology. I hope my book and journal articles can contribute to the ongoing conversation with fresh empirical evidence from my extensive PhD fieldwork: highlighting the powerful words of the women of my research and engaging both academic and general audiences. As such, the ESRC fellowship will help establish me as a decolonial feminist economist with new theory grounded in a rich dataset of novel empirical evidence from my PhD research. As ESRC fellow, I will also collaborate across departments in Cambridge, participate in conferences, and convene reading groups and workshops. This includes hosting scholars to speak in Cambridge so early career researchers can network with each other and meet leading scholars in the area of gender and employment. I plan to undertake new analysis of existing data, to expand upon findings of the final chapter of my thesis - on the connection between women's employment and their empowerment, as measured by the reduction of gender based violence (GBV) in the household. This work fits well with the ongoing research of the GendV project in Cambridge, and Benin will be added to the list of countries that contribute to our growing understanding of the dynamics and drivers of GBV in the Global South.
在我的博士论文中,我采用了一种非殖民地女性主义的方法来批判性地解构“赋权”概念的含义和适用性。“大多数人都熟悉女性赋权的想法,我们通常认为这意味着积极的事情。在国际发展理论和实践中使用增强权能一词的情况也是如此,但深入研究现有文献后发现,文献中实际上没有很好地理解这一术语,甚至没有对其下定义。Ibrahim和Alkire(2007年)在对文献的审查中发现,对增强权能没有统一的理解,而是列出了近30个不同的定义。这个术语是什么意思?如何使用?这有什么关系?这些是我的研究提出的一些问题。作为ESRC研究员,我希望凭借多年在西非农村地区与女农民一起进行研究的经验,成为一名领先的非殖民地女权主义学者。对于我的博士学位,我把贝宁的阿塔科拉的北方地区作为案例研究,我在该国最北方的四个县进行了多年的实地考察(2017-2019)。其目的是更好地了解贝宁农村的家庭贫困状况:由于地处偏远,家庭往往被忽视。在数据收集过程中,研究参与者(n = 380)在多次进行的焦点小组讨论(FGD)中讲法语和当地语言的混合:(一)Atakora的一般妇女人口;(二)在园艺价值链中经济活跃的妇女;(三)在牛油果价值链中经济活跃的妇女。妇女发展论坛提供了一套丰富的数据,妇女在这些数据中谈到了她们的希望和挑战;她们的日常任务和负担。我博士学位的新经验数据呼吁建立性别角色和相关责任的非殖民化理论--该理论充分捕捉了全球南方背景下家庭劳动的性别分工,该理论可以为减贫工作提供信息。我的ESRC奖学金的主要目的是出版一本基于我的博士研究的书。这本书将有助于越来越多的作品的作者谁确定为非殖民地女权主义者,如边缘(2021),奥卢费米(2020),和卡拉斯科米罗(2020)谁专注于欧洲和拉丁美洲。虽然有一些新兴的学者致力于基于非洲证据的非殖民化理论(亚当斯等人,2021; Devlieger,2021),非殖民女权主义的方法在非洲很大程度上是缺失的。我的研究填补了这一空白,并进一步提供了一个多学科的方法,讲发展经济学以及人类学和社会学的语言。我希望我的书和期刊文章能够为正在进行的对话做出贡献,从我广泛的博士实地考察中获得新的经验证据:突出我研究的女性的有力言论,并吸引学术和普通观众。因此,ESRC奖学金将帮助我成为一名非殖民地女性主义经济学家,并在我的博士研究中获得了丰富的新经验证据数据集。作为ESRC研究员,我还将在剑桥跨部门合作,参加会议,并召集阅读小组和研讨会。这包括主办学者在剑桥演讲,使早期职业研究人员可以相互联系,并会见性别和就业领域的主要学者。我计划对现有数据进行新的分析,以扩大我论文最后一章的研究结果-妇女就业与妇女赋权之间的联系,以减少家庭中基于性别的暴力为衡量标准。这项工作与剑桥GendV项目正在进行的研究非常吻合,贝宁将被列入有助于我们日益了解全球南方性别暴力动态和驱动因素的国家名单。
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Far from the Factory? Investigating how women travel to work in rural Cote d’Ivoire
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