African Activism and Life after NGOs
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Köp båda 2 för 527 krThe last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and po...
"This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation." * Somatosphere * "This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists." * African Review of Economics * "Hodzic 's ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices." * Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute * "Readers can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting." * Journal of Modern African Studies * "A timely contribution to pan-African scholarship." * Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies *
Saida Hodzic is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
Preface: Coming to Questions Introduction: Governmentality against Itself 1 * Colonial Reason, Sensibility, and the Ethnographic Style 2 * Making Harmful Traditional Practices 3 * When Cutting Did and Did Not End 4 * Mistaken by Design: Biopolitics in Practice 5 * Blood Loss and Slow Harm in Times of Scarcity 6 * Th e Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy 7 * Against Sovereign Violence Epilogue Acknowledgments Acronyms Notes References Index