Colonial Legacy of Gender Inequality: Christian Missionaries in German East Africa

Montgomery, Max

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“…Earlier studies have found Protestant missions to promote education more effectively than Catholic missions (Cogneau and Moradi 2014 ; Gallego and Woodberry 2010 ). Other studies point at geographic nuances regarding the long-term effects of Christian missions (Montgomery 2017 ).…”

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The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa

Becker

2021

Economic History of Developing Regions

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Christian missions in colonial Africa have contributed significantly to the expansion of formal education and thereby shaped the continent's long-term economic and political development. This paper breaks new ground by showing that this process depended on local demand for education. It is argued that disagreements over norms, and in particular the struggle over polygamy, which resulted from missions' insistence on monogamy in traditionally polygamous areas, lowered African demand for education. Analyses of geocoded data from historical and contemporary sources, covering most of sub-Saharan Africa, show that the struggle is associated with worse educational outcomes today. Effects are not limited to formal attainments but carry over to informal outcomes, in particular literacy. The findings attest to considerable heterogeneity in missionary legacies and suggest that local conditions should be given greater consideration in future studies on the long-term consequences of colonial-era interventions.

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The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa

Becker

2021

Economic History of Developing Regions

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“…At the same time, black women are spatially entangled with global feminist struggles through the internationalisation of Western gender relations by the women’s equality movements, development institutions, and the Christian religion. Using digital technologies, Montgomery’s (2017) research in Tanzania demonstrates how the legacy of German Catholic missionaries continues to produce unequal gender educational outcomes in the contemporary period. Studying black women requires the adoption of a transnational intersectional scholarship and, according to Mollett and Faria, can “deepen not just critical race feminism and race sexuality studies within feminist geography, but also extend new ways of thinking about enduring spatialities” (2018, p. 573).…”

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Lives lived differently: Geography and the study of black women

Daley

2020

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This paper considers the geographical study of black women’s lives through a reflection on Jacqueline Tivers’ (1978) “How the other half lives: the geographical study of women.” While feminist geographers have drawn on black feminist thought, the limited presence of black women academics within the discipline of Geography contributed to a lack of sensitivity to the distinctiveness of black women's geographies. The paper notes the considerable body of work that has emerged since Tivers’ paper, including that which challenges the universalisation of concepts of women, gender, family, and the household, especially in relation to black women’s lives globally. It asserts the globality of black women’s “lifeways” – especially the interconnections between continental Africa and the African diaspora – and suggests that a more relational approach to the study of black women’s lives could inform geographers’ understanding of gendered and racial structures of oppression and alternative geographies of resistance and freedom.

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“…52 In this special issue, Montgomery advances the literature on colonial legacies of Christian missionaries. 53 Although a substantial body of work has already documented the general benefits of Christian missionary activity on human capital development, he looks at the extent to which exposure to missionary schooling affected gender inequality in educational attainment in the long term. Using detailed school-level information from colonial Tanzania and geographically referenced modern-day outcome measures of educational attainment, he shows that both Catholic and Protestant missionaries had positive effects on educational attainment.…”

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The Comparative Politics of Colonialism and Its Legacies: An Introduction

Juan

Pierskalla

2017

Politics & Society

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What are the causes and consequences of colonial rule? This introduction to the special issue "Comparative Politics of Colonialism and Its Legacies" surveys recent literature in political science, sociology, and economics that addresses colonial state building and colonial legacies. Past research has made important contributions to our understanding of colonialism's long-term effects on political, social, and economic development. Existing work emphasizes the role of critical junctures and institutions in understanding the transmission of those effects to present-day outcomes and embraces the idea of design-based inference for empirical analysis. The four articles of this special issue add to existing research but also represent new research trends: increased attention to (1) the internal dynamics of colonial intervention; (2) noninstitutional transmission mechanisms; (3) the role of context conditions at times of colonial intervention; and (4) a finer-grained disaggregation of outcomes, explanatory factors, and units of analysis.

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Colonial Legacy of Gender Inequality: Christian Missionaries in German East Africa

Cited by 26 publications

References 29 publications

The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa

The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa

Lives lived differently: Geography and the study of black women

The Comparative Politics of Colonialism and Its Legacies: An Introduction

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