‘Hungry children don't ask fathers for food’: Gender, security and the COVID pandemic in a Kenya gold mining area

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.1016/j.exis.2024.101453
Doris Buss , Aluoka Otieno
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This paper contributes to the emerging research on COVID-19 pandemic effects on the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector in sub-Sahara Africa. Drawing on the results from a 2022 rapid research visit to a gold mining area in western Kenya, where the authors have been carrying out a multi-year study since 2015, we explore women's distinctly gendered experiences of the mobility 'lock downs’ imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. Our discussion, informed by feminist analysis of social reproduction, considers how women's gendered roles in the household - clothing, feeding and caring for their children and families - and in mine sites, increased their exposure to police violence and food insecurity. We examine our results in relation to findings from the World Bank-funded Delve surveys (2020; 2022), to reflect on the methodological implications, and future research directions, for more fully exploring gendered differences of security in times of ‘crisis’.

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本文为有关 COVID-19 对撒哈拉以南非洲手工和小型金矿开采业影响的新兴研究做出了贡献。作者自 2015 年起在肯尼亚西部的一个金矿开采区开展了一项为期多年的研究,我们利用 2022 年对该地区进行的快速研究访问的结果,探讨了妇女在为遏制 COVID-19 的传播而实施的流动性 "封锁 "中的独特性别体验。我们的讨论借鉴了女权主义对社会再生产的分析,考虑了妇女在家庭中的性别角色--衣食住行、照顾子女和家人--以及在矿区的角色,如何增加了她们遭受警察暴力和粮食不安全的风险。我们将研究结果与世界银行资助的 Delve 调查(2020 年;2022 年)的结果联系起来,以反思方法论的影响和未来的研究方向,从而更全面地探讨 "危机 "时期安全的性别差异。
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