Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.4
L. Komen
The increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephony has the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrog stages of development. Yet to others, the technology is at most counterproductive: development has been understood differently by the developed in comparison to the underdeveloped. Missing in this narrative is the people’s own conceptualization of the term development as well as their gender roles, often a component of development programs. This study presents findings on an alternative conceptualization of development, dubbed maendeleo, a Swahili term that denotes process, participation, progress, growth, change, and improved standard of living—as defined by the people or women themselves as they interact with mobile telephony in rural Kenya. Using Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory to analyze interviews, this study proposes an alternative conceptualization of development. This different perspective on development denotes both process and emergence, through the processes and roles that mobile telephony plays in the techno-social interactions of users, context, and other factors as they form social assemblages that are fluid in nature, hence challenging the Western proposition that new technologies produce development understood as social transformation.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.7
Joseph N. Nyanoti
Kenya is known globally as the home of world champions in athletics, including the Olympics. However, although the Olympic games dominate public discourse in Kenya when they are being held every four years, there is hardly any academic interest in the many press photographs that are published in this season. The main objective of this study is to analyze how female athletes were photographically represented compared with their male counterparts in the Rio 2016 Olympics in the Kenyan newspapers. I employed quantitative content analysis and semiotic analysis to study Kenya’s two leading daily newspapers, the Daily Nation and the Standard between August 5 and 21, 2016, the time the Olympic games took place. My findings indicate that the two newspapers allocated more photographic space to men compared with women athletes. The findings also show that photographs in this study depicted women as weaker than men, as emotional unlike their logical male counterparts, and generally as inferior to men.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.8
K. Vanyoro
Using discourse analysis and semiotic analysis, this article examines how the language and images of the “4men” section of the South African site QueerLife construct masculinity and femininity as (un)desirable aspects in gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (GBTI) men’s relationships. The use of “(un)desirable” in this article suggests that there are contesting definitions of what constitutes desirable and undesirable traits in GBTI relationships. Although QueerLife states that it caters to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people, this article only focuses on GBTI men’s content in the 4men section. The article argues that despite claiming to cater to all within the LGBTI spectrum, representations on QueerLife 4men seem to treat masculinity as the most desirable trait. This encompasses traits such as penis size, athleticism, class, emotionlessness, and muscular, firmly built bodies. Overall, the analysis of these texts will show that among what such representations seek to achieve in post-apartheid South Africa is an appeal to white, urban, middle-class gay communities.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.1
A. Gadzekpo, Paula Gardner, H. Steeves
Over the past decade and earlier, much of the academic and grey literature has painted an optimistic picture of rapidly increasing access and growth of digital technologies in Africa. Industry statistics put internet penetration in Africa close to 40 percent and growing, even though the continent still lags behind the world average of Internet users (Internet World Statistics, June 2019). Some estimates predict that by 2025 the sub-continent will add 167 million mobile subscribers to its existing 456 million (GSMA Report, 2019). Mobile devices, especially, have assumed centrality in the lives of ordinary people and provide prospects for Africa to leapfrog into the modern digital world. Smart phones are enabling millions of Africans to share news and information more easily and to tap into all kinds of essential services, much like elsewhere in the world.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.5
J. Kwami
While access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the internet has increased over the last couple of years, new digital inequalities also continue to emerge regarding gender, socioeconomic backgrounds, and different levels of digital literacies and education. The gendered nature of access to and use of digital technologies shapes opportunities for many African women, influences the process of social inclusion, and thus exacerbates social inequalities. This essay interrogates the interrelationships of gender, new digital technologies, and socioeconomic development among marginalized groups in different contexts in countries on the continent of Africa, focusing on the rising digital inequities among marginalized communities. I make the case for the collection of disaggregated data and comparative studies of gendered digital inequities as important for understanding and bridging gaps. By focusing on marginalization rather than poverty, I examine the relationships between people, locales, and institutions rather than assets alone. By examining how distributed groups connect through digital tools, I hope to raise some important questions about the nature of digital inequities in today’s networked society and address gender empowerment through inclusive and research-based ICT policy making and practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.2
Dorothy Atuhura
With illustrations drawn from Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers’s documentary Framing the Other (2012), this article rethinks media representation of the contact between Mursi lip-plated women of Ethiopia and Western tourists who come to sightsee and photograph their traditionally modified bodies. The film Framing the Other represents this contact as a destructive force that has not only enabled Mursi women’s victimhood as objects of the tourist gaze, but one that has contributed negative cultural change and loss of tradition. In this article, I provide an alternative, if not oppositional, interpretation that only attends to the nuanced ways Mursi women negotiate cultural loss and change, and recognizes modalities of agential tactics they deploy to negotiate cultural exchange and perform identity work within a cross-cultural contact zone marred with significant inequalities that work to their (dis)advantage. I do not imply that my reading will provide a definitive reading; rather, I reexamine the vanishing tradition and victimhood narratives portrayed in Framing the Other, showing that its multiple layers of meaning in fact motivate an oppositional and alternative reading.
本文以Ilja Kok和Willem Timmers的纪录片《框架他人》(Framing the Other, 2012)中的插图为素材，重新思考媒体对衣俄比亚穆尔西唇妆女性与前来观光并拍摄她们传统修饰身体的西方游客之间的接触。电影《构造他者》将这种接触描述为一种破坏性的力量，它不仅使穆尔西妇女成为游客注视的对象，而且造成了负面的文化变化和传统的丧失。在这篇文章中，我提供了另一种解释，如果不是对立的，它只关注穆尔西妇女谈判文化损失和变化的微妙方式，并认识到她们在跨文化接触区进行文化交流谈判和执行身份工作时采用的代理策略的模式，这些策略被严重的不平等所破坏，这对她们(不利)有利。我并不是说我的阅读将提供一个决定性的阅读;相反，我重新审视了《构建他者》中所描绘的正在消失的传统和受害者叙事，表明它的多层意义实际上激发了一种对立和另类的阅读。
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.3
Marla L. Jaksch
Giving birth can be a life or death matter for many pregnant women. As a consequence of the high rates of maternal death in many countries, death in childbirth has come to be understood as an unfortunate yet accepted part of the contemporary maternal health landscape. Globally, the high rates of maternal death comprise many overlapping historical and systemic features that are not always easy to disentangle. Adding to the complexity are entrenched approaches to maternal mortality that tend toward one-size-fits-all strategies, approaches that minimize or erase the specificity of local and regional differences. This trend is problematic as Western biomedical approaches often demand that women perform assigned roles and operate under systems not of their own control or making—ignoring long histories, behaviors, and cultural beliefs that have preexisted this moment and have supported women’s authoritative knowledge. As an intervention into this landscape, this discussion introduces an ongoing project, Hakuna Kama Mama (HKM), which expands dominant framings by populating the healthscape with localized understandings of maternal health because African women are often regarded as the objects of expert knowledge rather than the subjects of their own stories. The HKM project centers upon the participants’ subjective perspectives of motherhood in their daily lives because they are knowledgeable subjects who desire to be seen as capable, responsible experts—as mothers and hard-working contributors to their community.
对许多孕妇来说，生孩子是一件生死攸关的事情。由于许多国家产妇死亡率高，分娩死亡已被理解为当代产妇保健状况中一个不幸但又可以接受的部分。在全球范围内，高产妇死亡率包括许多重叠的历史和系统特征，这些特征并不总是容易解开。更为复杂的是，处理孕产妇死亡率的根深蒂固的方法往往采取一刀切的策略，尽量减少或消除地方和区域差异的特殊性。这种趋势是有问题的，因为西方的生物医学方法经常要求女性执行指定的角色，并在不是她们自己控制或创造的系统下运作——忽视了在这一刻之前就存在的、支持女性权威知识的悠久历史、行为和文化信仰。作为对这一景观的干预，本讨论介绍了一个正在进行的项目，Hakuna Kama Mama (HKM)，该项目通过将孕产妇保健的本地化理解融入健康景观，扩大了主导框架，因为非洲妇女通常被视为专业知识的对象，而不是她们自己故事的主题。HKM项目以参与者在日常生活中对母性的主观看法为中心，因为她们是知识渊博的研究对象，她们渴望被视为有能力、负责任的专家——作为母亲和努力为社区做出贡献的人。
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Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2020.16.6
W. F. Mohammed
This article examines Akumaa Mama Zimbi’s activism in the Ghanaian social media landscape, specifically Twitter. I argue that while it is imperative to critique her hashtag activism for its complicity with patriarchal ideology in the repression of female sexuality, it is important to contextualize her work within conversations on gender activism and feminisms in Ghana. This article parses out the politics of and tensions in feminist movements on the continent demonstrating how certain activist labels can be depoliticized and used to undo decades of feminist work on the continent. By drawing on my lived experience as an ethnically marginalized Muslim woman born and raised in Ghana who is active in the country’s digital (activist) public sphere, I present a critical analysis of the pervasive conversations on gender activism and feminism in Ghana. I employ the conceptual framework of framing to examine the main topics that arise out of Akumaa’s #WearYourDrossNow campaign on Ghana Twitter which aims at discouraging young women from engaging in premarital sex. I assert that Akumaa’s work is inspired by her personal interpretation of gender activism and is closely tied to religious morality and conservative notions of female sexuality in Ghana.
本文探讨了Akumaa Mama Zimbi在加纳社交媒体领域的行动主义，特别是Twitter。我认为，虽然有必要批评她的标签行动主义与男权意识形态共同压制女性性行为，但将她的工作置于加纳性别行动主义和女权主义的对话中也很重要。本文分析了非洲大陆女权运动的政治和紧张局势，展示了某些激进分子的标签如何被去政治化，并被用来破坏非洲大陆几十年来的女权主义工作。作为一名在加纳出生和长大的被种族边缘化的穆斯林妇女，我活跃于该国的数字(活动家)公共领域，我利用我的生活经验，对加纳普遍存在的关于性别激进主义和女权主义的对话进行了批判性分析。我采用框架的概念框架来检视Akumaa在迦纳推特上发起的#WearYourDrossNow活动所引发的主要议题，该活动旨在劝阻年轻女性从事婚前性行为。我断言，Akumaa的作品受到她个人对性别激进主义的解读的启发，并与加纳的宗教道德和女性性行为的保守观念密切相关。
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.5399/UO/ADA.2019.15.2
W. F. Mohammed
This article contextualizes feminist activism within Northern Ghana, highlighting the complexities of activism in this society. I argue that although social media provides space for the articulation of marginalized voices, it is imperative to examine how cultural capital and an intimate knowledge of power dynamics within a socio-cultural context shapes successful activist work. Therefore, online activism when complemented by activist work offline, can be used to address injustices towards marginalized people. I contextualize the case within a religiously conservative society, emphasizing the role that an activist’s positionality can play in facilitating activist work. Throughout the article, I deconstruct activism, shedding light on the evolution and malleability of activism depending on whether or not activist work leads to concrete results. Therefore, I draw on critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) to contextualize activist work that I engaged in, together with non-activist identifying people and feminist allies to seek justice for a woman who was front and center in our quest to address sexism publicly directed at her.
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