{"title":"Book Review - The ‘Dugout’: A Review of Africa’s Struggle For Its Art: History Of A Postcolonial Defeat","authors":"Bénédicte Savoy","doi":"10.57054/asr.v26i1.3996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v26i1.3996","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47217479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the years, rural service delivery is often subjected to political players and less of the rural public interest. The study examined rural people experiences of local government rural LGAs of Oyo state, Nigeria. The concept of governance provides the conceptual balance for this study. The study made use of a mixed approach for data collection, qualitative and quantitative tools of questionnaire and in-depth interview respectively. Two hundred and fifty (250) rural households across six (6) LGAs were administered questionnaire randomly from the purposively identified rural local government areas. Study revealed that infrastructure politicking is a challenge that limits sustainable rural facility delivery. This is because infrastructures such as water infrastructure, school buildings and drainage construction were provided based on political affiliation. Over half of the respondents consider rural governance not to be participatory and inclusive towards rural development. The study recommends that democratic local government autonomy remains the feasible and responsive solution to efficient service delivery in the local space.
{"title":"The Politics Of Infrastructural Provision in Rural Areas of Oyo State Nigeria","authors":"Ayobami Abayomi Popoola","doi":"10.57054/asr.v26i1.3992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v26i1.3992","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, rural service delivery is often subjected to political players and less of the rural public interest. The study examined rural people experiences of local government rural LGAs of Oyo state, Nigeria. The concept of governance provides the conceptual balance for this study. The study made use of a mixed approach for data collection, qualitative and quantitative tools of questionnaire and in-depth interview respectively. Two hundred and fifty (250) rural households across six (6) LGAs were administered questionnaire randomly from the purposively identified rural local government areas. Study revealed that infrastructure politicking is a challenge that limits sustainable rural facility delivery. This is because infrastructures such as water infrastructure, school buildings and drainage construction were provided based on political affiliation. Over half of the respondents consider rural governance not to be participatory and inclusive towards rural development. The study recommends that democratic local government autonomy remains the feasible and responsive solution to efficient service delivery in the local space.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49183199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study focuses on “School Clubs and Peace-camp-sites”, which are the extra-curricular educational activities organized by schools in partnership with nongovernmental organizations with the ultimate objective of cultivating peace among young pupils. It shows how they can contribute to the construction of lasting peace making it possible to promote knowledge, competences, attitudes and values necessary to bring changes in their behaviour.
{"title":"Construction de la paix par les compétences de vie courante en milieux scolaires de Bukavu/RDC. Regard sur les approches « Peace-campings et Clubs de paix scolaires »","authors":"Dieumerci Aksanti Cirhibuka","doi":"10.57054/asr.v26i1.3987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v26i1.3987","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on “School Clubs and Peace-camp-sites”, which are the extra-curricular educational activities organized by schools in partnership with nongovernmental organizations with the ultimate objective of cultivating peace among young pupils. It shows how they can contribute to the construction of lasting peace making it possible to promote knowledge, competences, attitudes and values necessary to bring changes in their behaviour.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46630153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The feminization of the judiciary has aroused various reactions, both from researchers and actors. The former wondered about the influence of the sex of the judges on the way of judging, while the latter worried about a probable bias of female judges regarding the interests of women, especially for family cases opposing men and women. Based on the case of succession in Burundi where cases opposing women to their brothers are submitted to the courts, this article attempts to answer the question of the influence of the gender of judges on the judgment. The data on which the analysis is based consist of 16 interviews with judges and 214 judgements. They were collected during doctoral research between 2018 and 2020 in two Residence Courts in Burundi, namely Mutambu located in rural areas and Kamenge located in urban areas of Bujumbura. The qualitative analysis of the data shows that apart from a few aspects, there is no significant difference between the way of judging male and female judges.
{"title":"Lorsque le juge est une femme : une réflexion sur Ĺinfluence du sexe des juges sur le jugement à travers le cas de la succession des femmes au Burundi","authors":"Vénérand Nsengiyumva, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles","doi":"10.57054/asr.v26i1.3983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v26i1.3983","url":null,"abstract":"The feminization of the judiciary has aroused various reactions, both from researchers and actors. The former wondered about the influence of the sex of the judges on the way of judging, while the latter worried about a probable bias of female judges regarding the interests of women, especially for family cases opposing men and women. Based on the case of succession in Burundi where cases opposing women to their brothers are submitted to the courts, this article attempts to answer the question of the influence of the gender of judges on the judgment. The data on which the analysis is based consist of 16 interviews with judges and 214 judgements. They were collected during doctoral research between 2018 and 2020 in two Residence Courts in Burundi, namely Mutambu located in rural areas and Kamenge located in urban areas of Bujumbura. The qualitative analysis of the data shows that apart from a few aspects, there is no significant difference between the way of judging male and female judges.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45544784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phionah Namuliira, Razack B. Lokina, Innocent Pantaleo
The rationale for FP use has changed over time to progressively emphasize poverty reduction and welfare improvements. However, literature hasn’t largely matched this change. This study, therefore, sought to contribute to this knowledge gap by exploring the impact of FP on household welfare using consumption per adult equivalent as the measure of household welfare. Data from the Uganda National Panel Survey 2018/19 and 2019/20 waves was used, and the analysis was done using pooled ordinary least squares. Results revealed that fewer male headed households and more of the women not using FP were poor as compared to their counterparts. Results also indicated FP use to increase household welfare by 6.4% among all households. This increase is however more significant for rural women. The results thus indicate the potential of using FP to bridge the rural-urban divide.
{"title":"Household welfare perspective of family planning utilization in Uganda","authors":"Phionah Namuliira, Razack B. Lokina, Innocent Pantaleo","doi":"10.57054/asr.v26i1.3977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v26i1.3977","url":null,"abstract":"The rationale for FP use has changed over time to progressively emphasize poverty reduction and welfare improvements. However, literature hasn’t largely matched this change. This study, therefore, sought to contribute to this knowledge gap by exploring the impact of FP on household welfare using consumption per adult equivalent as the measure of household welfare. Data from the Uganda National Panel Survey 2018/19 and 2019/20 waves was used, and the analysis was done using pooled ordinary least squares. Results revealed that fewer male headed households and more of the women not using FP were poor as compared to their counterparts. Results also indicated FP use to increase household welfare by 6.4% among all households. This increase is however more significant for rural women. The results thus indicate the potential of using FP to bridge the rural-urban divide.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46190039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Autoethnography is a qualitative research method for relating lived-through personal experiences to a range of existing social representations. It is regarded as self-representation in examining and critiquing dominant representations. While the researcher’s subjectivities are restricted within the ethnographic qualitative framework, autoethnography emphasises this foundation as essential to data collection, interpretation, and analysis in the research process. In this paper, I discuss how my lived-through personal experience of abuse influenced how/why I conceptualised, investigated, and represented the lived experiences of several abused male victims of intimate partner violence in Johannesburg, which are typically ignored in gender- based violence literature. The paper comments on tactics used to negotiate ethical dilemmas as part of a conceptual examination of the benefits of reflexivity and insider positionality to reinforce the self-reflective autoenthgrapahy as a valuable qualitative method.
{"title":"Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and Insider Researcher Dynamics: Reflections on Investigating Violence against Men in Intimate Relationships","authors":"Emmanuel Rowlands","doi":"10.57054/asr.v6i2.3976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v6i2.3976","url":null,"abstract":"Autoethnography is a qualitative research method for relating lived-through personal experiences to a range of existing social representations. It is regarded as self-representation in examining and critiquing dominant representations. While the researcher’s subjectivities are restricted within the ethnographic qualitative framework, autoethnography emphasises this foundation as essential to data collection, interpretation, and analysis in the research process. In this paper, I discuss how my lived-through personal experience of abuse influenced how/why I conceptualised, investigated, and represented the lived experiences of several abused male victims of intimate partner violence in Johannesburg, which are typically ignored in gender- based violence literature. The paper comments on tactics used to negotiate ethical dilemmas as part of a conceptual examination of the benefits of reflexivity and insider positionality to reinforce the self-reflective autoenthgrapahy as a valuable qualitative method.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Les revendications corporatistes et/ou salariales sont au centre des conflits entre les employeurs et les ouvriers/employés. Elles peuvent s’exprimer sous forme de grèves. Ce sont des luttes liées au travail qui s’intègrent dans les rapports sociaux conflictuels et qui régissent les sociétés d’aujourd’hui. De ce point de vue, le travail est toujours au coeur des conflits dans les sociétés modernes. Définie comme la cessation collective et concertée du travail en vue d’appuyer des revendications professionnelles, la grève reste en effet assez fortement associée, dans sesreprésentations courantes, à un arrêt de travail, plus ou moins long. Rapportées au Gabon, dans les administrations publiques et dans les entreprises privées, les expressions de grève présentent une certaine évolution dans leurs manifestations. Certaines pratiques de grève s’inspirent des symboles liés aux rituels funéraires, ce qui dénote le caractère vindicatif de ces manifestations.
{"title":"Mise en scène de la mort dans les manifestations de grèves au Gabon","authors":"Jean-Emery Etoughé-Efé","doi":"10.57054/asr.v25i2.3999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v25i2.3999","url":null,"abstract":"Les revendications corporatistes et/ou salariales sont au centre des conflits entre les employeurs et les ouvriers/employés. Elles peuvent s’exprimer sous forme de grèves. Ce sont des luttes liées au travail qui s’intègrent dans les rapports sociaux conflictuels et qui régissent les sociétés d’aujourd’hui. De ce point de vue, le travail est toujours au coeur des conflits dans les sociétés modernes. Définie comme la cessation collective et concertée du travail en vue d’appuyer des revendications professionnelles, la grève reste en effet assez fortement associée, dans sesreprésentations courantes, à un arrêt de travail, plus ou moins long. Rapportées au Gabon, dans les administrations publiques et dans les entreprises privées, les expressions de grève présentent une certaine évolution dans leurs manifestations. Certaines pratiques de grève s’inspirent des symboles liés aux rituels funéraires, ce qui dénote le caractère vindicatif de ces manifestations.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45905976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public texts (permanent education sites) of different genres and forms. The selected permanent education sites include the mediatisation of the public and private lives of the British royal family’s Prince Harry and Meghan’s break away from royal duties, the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League, the Chinese Museum in Hubei, and other public incidences that provoked racial controversies. These activities, controversies and exhibitions are vehicles through which racism is reproduced as part of the historical global capitalist system. This is the ubiquitous public pedagogy of permanent education. The porous but multifarious dominant sitesdiffuse diverse forms of pedagogical address to put into play a limited range of identities, ideologies, and subject positions that both reinforce neoliberal social relations and undermine the capacity for democratic politics. Critical scholarship has a normative duty to be mindful of all cultural activities and productions, their processes of signification, and implications for humanization and democracy. After conveniently selecting specific mass mediated permanent education sites, this paper theorises and historicises the colonial foundations of racism and the European construction of an imagined racial hierarchy. It then problematises China as an emergent global economic powerhouse located in this gradation, and its contemporary self- identities – both official and public – given notable allegations of incidences of Chinese racism against people of African descent. Popular sites of mediation are not studied for their own sake, but to develop a radical pan-African scholarship strategically positioned to influence public education sites for social transformation and justice. Such vigilant critical decolonial scholarship makes necessary com onse to insidious sites ocultural education.
{"title":"Promoting Epistemic Vigilance Against Racist Attacks on Africans on Mediatised Permanent Education Sites","authors":"N. Mhiripiri","doi":"10.57054/asr.v25i2.3991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v25i2.3991","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public texts (permanent education sites) of different genres and forms. The selected permanent education sites include the mediatisation of the public and private lives of the British royal family’s Prince Harry and Meghan’s break away from royal duties, the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League, the Chinese Museum in Hubei, and other public incidences that provoked racial controversies. These activities, controversies and exhibitions are vehicles through which racism is reproduced as part of the historical global capitalist system. This is the ubiquitous public pedagogy of permanent education. The porous but multifarious dominant sitesdiffuse diverse forms of pedagogical address to put into play a limited range of identities, ideologies, and subject positions that both reinforce neoliberal social relations and undermine the capacity for democratic politics. Critical scholarship has a normative duty to be mindful of all cultural activities and productions, their processes of signification, and implications for humanization and democracy. After conveniently selecting specific mass mediated permanent education sites, this paper theorises and historicises the colonial foundations of racism and the European construction of an imagined racial hierarchy. It then problematises China as an emergent global economic powerhouse located in this gradation, and its contemporary self- identities – both official and public – given notable allegations of incidences of Chinese racism against people of African descent. Popular sites of mediation are not studied for their own sake, but to develop a radical pan-African scholarship strategically positioned to influence public education sites for social transformation and justice. Such vigilant critical decolonial scholarship makes necessary com onse to insidious sites ocultural education.","PeriodicalId":43163,"journal":{"name":"African Sociological Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45942252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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