African Feminist Politics of Knowledge. Tensions, Challenges, Possibilities

AFRICAN FEMINIST POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE is a bookthat aims to expose the dilemmas and conflicts that feminist researchers and practitioners living and/or working in the Global South have to deal with on a daily basis. The bookattempts to disentangle some of these dilemmas and tensions in, challenges to, but also possibilities for feminist research and activism in the context of the cultures, practices and expectations of university bureaucracies, donor agenciesand North-South collaboration. All the authors, living and working in Denmark, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique and South Africa, are researchers and activists.They theorise from their experiences as persons who are based in, or have worked in Africa, highlighting the dilemmas and conflicts they face as academics and researchers on one hand, and dependence on donor funding on the other.

Author: Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 04/14/2010
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9789171066626
ISBN10: 9171066624
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Art | African

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