At the intersections: San women and the rights of indigenous peoples in Africa

Sylvain, Renée

doi:10.1080/13642987.2011.529690

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“…There are many, and wide-ranging, global intersectional projects examining particular groups. For example, Sylvain (2011) researches the intersectional discrimination experienced by San (Bush) women in Namibia, describing how their self-construction makes it hard for them to work with international groups of indigenous people. Or consider Nakamura's (2002) argument about deafness in Malaysia as an intersectional identity that is structured by language, religion, and ethnicity, among other issues.…”

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Intersectionality and Global Gender Inequality

Bose

2012

Gender & Society

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P atricia Hill Collins's cutting edge scholarship on intersectionality and interlocking systems of oppression has had an enormous impact on the sociology of gender; on studies of race, racism, and ethnicity; and on inequality research in the 20-plus years since Black Feminist Thought (1990) was first published, surpassing the intellectual influence most scholars will have over our entire lifetimes. Indicators of her influence are found in the vast number of "Google Scholar" hits generated by her name, or by her name in combination with "intersectionality," as well as by the fact that her work is cited by virtually every graduate student on sociology comprehensive exams in gender, race and ethnicity, or stratification.The development of intersectional theory significantly advanced research on women of color and about others who experience multiple forms of oppression in society (McCall 2005). Indeed, few contemporary scholars have been so adept or successful at instigating a paradigmatic change in how we understand our world. This shift is especially visible in work by U.S. scholars who focus on various types of inequality, with somewhat more muted ripple effects in other sub-fields such as demography or political sociology.Furthermore, since their introduction, the concepts of intersectionality and matrices of domination have not remained static. Scholars have applied this approach to dimensions beyond the original foci on race, ethnicity, gender, and class to incorporate citizenship, sexuality, religion, age, and other dimensions of subordination, across many different social settings. Indeed, the concept has found a place in the intellectual toolkit of scholars around the world, whether they live in their home countries or in national diasporas, and is used to interrogate problems and policy issues in their national or regional settings. My contribution to this symposium is to examine some of these global applications with which U.S. readers may be less familiar.

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Intersectionality and Global Gender Inequality

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2012

Gender & Society

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“…It is difficult to reconcile intersectional discrimination because it is mediated by political dynamics that are both internal and external to communities (Sylvain, 2011). When power is located externally, it often obscures intersectionalities and assumes that people are homogeneous.…”

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Gender in the World Food Economy: Inequitable Transformation of Haiti’s Food Economy

Vansteenkiste

2022

Front. Commun.

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Over the past five decades, agricultural trade liberalization and integration into the global food system have undermined gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food security in Haiti. International actors who design agricultural policies are aware of gendered contributions to Haitian food security, yet ignore this knowledge to privilege an ideological belief that trade liberalization and structural adjustment programs will advance gender equality. I argue that agriculture and food policies must treat gender roles and responsibilities as constitutive to the solution by recognizing their critical contribution to the structure of Haitian agrarian society and accordingly food security. I advance this claim by analyzing scholarly literature, institutional documents, and interviews with interlocutors (n = 292) from rural, peri-urban, and urban settings across Haiti to document how: 1) dominant narratives support an ideological belief that trade liberalization will advance gender equality; 2) integration of Haiti’s local food economy into the world food economy demands the reorientation of gendered labour; 3) women must participate in a system that while purporting to improve food security, ultimately diminishes their nutrition and social, economic and political wellbeing. This research documents that policies designed to globalize Haiti’s food economy on the premise of improving food security actually force women to abandon agricultural production and intensify their labour in less lucrative distribution and consumption roles of imported goods. This analysis documents that the transition ultimately reifies gender inequalities, heighten food insecurity, and contributes to feminist food scholarship.

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“…To the extent that the rhetoric of recognition is deployed only to achieve redistributive goals, indigenous struggles are not about genuine recognition after all. The conditions of material deprivation faced by the San are the result of the mutual imbrication of racial, ethnic, and class inequalities, and so they cannot be addressed without confronting the racial stereotypes of them as primitive premoderns (Sylvain ). To address those stereotypes is to take seriously the importance of genuine recognition.…”

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Essentialism and the Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Southern Africa

Sylvain

2014

American Anthropologist

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In this essay, I explore familiar tensions between anthropological theories of identity and activism on behalf of indigenous causes, with special attention to strategic uses of theoretically dubious forms of essentialism. I examine the contradictions between essentialism and constructionism, and between recognition and redistribution, in light of San struggles for rights to traditional territories in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana. I begin by outlining how the politics of theorizing in an apartheid context imposed a false choice between essentialist and deconstructionist views of identity. I then discuss the controversial relocation of San from the CKGR and how

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At the intersections: San women and the rights of indigenous peoples in Africa

Cited by 13 publications

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Intersectionality and Global Gender Inequality

Intersectionality and Global Gender Inequality

Gender in the World Food Economy: Inequitable Transformation of Haiti’s Food Economy

Essentialism and the Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Southern Africa

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