Women, Colonial Resistance, and Decolonization

Bouka, Yolande

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“…However, decolonising is not a term which is necessarily used by those engaged in such struggles, such as Indigenous Peoples, landless farmers, workers or those who may already propose, enact and embody alternative and/or disruptive practices of their own for working with, not managing, difference. Despite such long histories (Bouka, 2020;Césaire, 1955;Fanon, 1952Fanon, /1967Fanon, , 1961Fanon, //1967Young, 1991), and debates about decolonising (Nandy, 1983;Wa Thiong'o, 1992), only recently have intellectuals referred to a decolonial turn (Maldonado-Torres, 2011. Originating as a theoretical concern in area studies, cultural studies and ethnic studies departments of the Western University, the phrase decolonial turn has come into vogue from 2005 (Maldonado-Torres, 2011).…”

Section: Departing From Colonial Differencementioning

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Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

Jammulamadaka

Faria²,

Jack

et al. 2021

Organization

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This special issue (SI) editorial contributes to ongoing efforts worldwide to decolonise management and organisational knowledge (MOK). A robust pluriversal discussion on the how and why of decolonisation is vital. Yet to date, most business and management schools are on the periphery of debates about decolonising higher education, even as Business Schools in diverse locations function as contested sites of neocolonialism and expansion of Western neoliberal perspectives. This editorial and special issue is the outcome of a unique set of relationships and processes that saw Organization host its first paper development workshop in Africa in 2019. This editorial speaks to a radical ontological plurality that up-ends the classical division between theory and praxis. It advocates praxistical theorising that moves beyond this binary and embraces decolonising knowledge by moving into the realm of affect and embodied, other-oriented reflexive, communicative praxis. It underscores the simultaneous, contested and unfinished decolonising-recolonising doubleness of praxis and the potential of borderlands locations to work with these dynamics. This special issue brings together a set of papers which advance different decolonising projects and grapple with the nuances of what it means to ‘do’ decolonising in a diversity of empirical and epistemic settings.

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Section: Departing From Colonial Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

Jammulamadaka

Faria²,

Jack

et al. 2021

Organization

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“…(Thiam 1978, 20) Obioma Nnaemeka is not saying anything different when she states that African feminist labour is boundary work which brings together lived experience as both theory and practice: the work of women in Africa is located at the boundary where the academy meets what lies beyond it, a third space where the immediacy of lived experience gives form to theory, allows the simultaneous gesture of theorising practice and practicing theory. (Nnaemeka 2004, 377) African feminist mobilising and protesting to speak truth to power are anything but new (Thiam 1978;Mama 1995;Sow 1997;Hassim and Gouws 1998;Diaw 1998;Hassim 2006;Tripp et al 2008;Guèye 2013;Berger 2014;Sen and Durano 2014;Pereira 2017;Bouilly, Rillon, and Cross 2016;Ndengue 2016;Gouws 2016;Sallam 2017;Bouka 2020;Okech 2020a;Tamale 2020;Joseph-Gabriel 2020;Diabate 2020;Nyanzi 2020;Kioko, Kagumire, and Matandela 2020;Heinrich Böll Stiftung 2021;Guèye et al 2015;Imam, Mama, and Sow 1997;Oyewumi 1997;Mama 1997;Sow 2018;Dosekun 2020;Gqola 2022;Clark and Mohammed 2023;Dieng, Haastrup, and Kang 2023). In recent years, various forms of feminist mobilising and organising have emerged from 'Cape to Cairo' to express their discontent and to protest against hetero-sexism, capitalism and racism.…”

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Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving

Dieng

2024

Review of African Political Economy

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This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and aspirations. It explores the intersections of feminist activism, knowledge production, solidarity and power dynamics in Africa and the African diaspora. The essay delves into how African feminists challenge existing power structures, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, fundamentalisms, capitalism and heteronormativity. It emphasises the importance of feminist scholarship and activism in reshaping political economies and political ecologies and challenging the status quo. The piece discusses the lived experiences of African feminist social movements and their efforts to redefine social contracts.

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“…Mainstream African historiography has been critiqued for its androcentrism, privileging male representation, and its focus on 'great male narratives'. This has resulted in women remaining largely invisible in what Malawian historian Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has called 'malestream' African history (Zeleza 2005: 207; see also Allman et al 2002;Falola and Amponsah 2012;Bouka 2020;Mama 2020). In a Ghanaian context, Allman (2009) has shown how Hannah Kudjo, one of Ghana's leading woman nationalists in the struggle for independence during the 1940s and 1950s, was written out of history.…”

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Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s

Machado-Guichon

2023

Africa

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This article provides the first systematic exploration of the ideas on inequality of the two Ghanaian women’s rights advocates Annie Jiagge and Florence Dolphyne, who were both part of the Ghanaian National Council on Women and Development during the 1970s and 1980s. Zooming in on their work and writings during this time, I challenge the view offered by some scholars that these decades were ‘apolitical’ and shaped by ‘quiet activism’ with regard to the Ghanaian women’s front. I show how Jiagge and Dolphyne actively rearticulated womanhood in postcolonial Ghanaian and African societies, placing women’s ‘issues’ and rights within the framework of an unequal world order. In doing so, I argue that they vernacularized the contemporary global discourse on women’s rights, shaped by the UN Decade for Women (1976–85), in a Ghanaian context, evoking what postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha has called an in-between ‘third space’ through which the many intersecting and ambivalent aspects affecting the lives of women in postcolonial Africa, and the so-called Third World at large, could be articulated.

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Women, Colonial Resistance, and Decolonization

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

Decolonising management and organisational knowledge (MOK): Praxistical theorising for potential worlds

Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving

Reimagining African womanhood in an unjust world order: exploring the writings of Ghanaian women’s rights advocates, 1970s–1980s

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