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Assata Zerai, Brenda N. Sanya - Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa

An African Feminist Analysis of the Lives of Women in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

Av Assata Zerai, Brenda N. Sanya

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Beskrivning
To understand safe water and sanitation in East Africa, it is important to consider the contributions of African feminist analysis. This perspective will unveil inequities in the distribution of resources, demonstrate how localized solutions which are driven by women’s collaborative work have had an impact by temporarily easing the burden, and paint a multilayered picture of the lives of women and girls who are the predominant providers of water to households. This book explores the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in East Africa from an African feminist sociological perspective. It presents a framework that considers the ways that the development industry, neoliberalism, neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, globalization, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children accessing clean water and safe sanitation and reducing early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This work offers a vital contribution to the social scientific literature by adapting the vibrant intellectual work of African feminists to a quantitative methodology and enlarging the scope of empirically and theoretically grounded studies within the field of environmental sociology.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-01-10
  • Mått: 157 x 240 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 472 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 188
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781498520836
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Assata Zerai isprofessor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Brenda N. Sanya is A. Lindsay O'Connor visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.

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Too often, the debates on development and gender are either too abstract or too technical. This book strikes the right balance to deliver practical and transformational knowledge. Assata Zerai and Brenda Sanya, along with a diverse group of scholars, offer a rich analysis of everyday development challenges (safe water, sanitation, and health) through an African feminist lens. In this book, they simultaneously examine the common challenges in achieving core development goals and provide a powerful critique of the gendered development knowledge system. By simply asking 'Where are the women?', they provide a catalytic perspective for weaving Africanist, feminist, and social justice discourses into a compelling analysis of everyday development challenges and structural inequality in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and a liberating critique of gendered knowledge in development studies. In the end, they not only expand our understanding of how the exclusion of women from policy design and implementation happens, but also elucidate the consequences of women’s exclusion on households and communities. More importantly, they remind us that a crucial source of social change is the efforts of mothers, health professionals, and activists to advocate for clean water, safe sanitation, and health resources.

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