Feminist Africa 13.2009     

Issue 13.2009 - Body Politics and Citizenship - view entire journal
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Contents

Editorial

Editorial: Body Politics and the Gendered Crafting of Citizenship
– by Sophie Oldfield, Elaine Salo and Ann Schlyter

Features

Coconuts do not live in Townships: Cosmopolitanism and its Failures in the
Urban Peripheries of Cape Town
– by Elaine Salo

Body politics and the Crafting of Citizenship in Peri-urban Lusaka
– by Ann Schlyter

De facto v/s de jure Home Ownership: Women’s Everyday Negotiations in Lusaka and Cape Town
– by Sian Butcher and Sophie Oldfield

“Marobot neMawaya” – Traffic Lights and Wire:
Crafting Zimbabwean Migrant Masculinities in Cape Town
– by Netsai Sarah Matshaka

Profiles

Nurturing Researchers, Building Local Knowledge:
The ‘Body Politics’ Project
– by Sophie Oldfield and Elaine Salo

Fieldwork Stories: Negotiating Positionality, Power and Purpose
– by Lynsey Bourke, Sian Butcher, Nixon Chisonga,
Jumani Clarke, Frances Davies & Jessica Thorn

Collaborative Research in Conversation
– by Koni Benson

A Regional Conversation on Southern African Cities
and Towns: The Gender, Urbanisation and Everyday Life
Research Project, 1992-2005
– by Matšeliso ‘Ma-Tlali Mapetla and Ann Schlyter

In Conversation

Living Language, Living Writing: A Profile of Sindiwe Magona
Elaine Salo speaks with Sindiwe Magona

Reviews

Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.
Sangtin writers and Richa Nagar.Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006
– reviewed by Salma Ismail

Gender Activism: Perspectives on the South African Transition,Institutional Culture and Everyday Life. Greg Ruiters (ed.).
Grahamstown: Rhodes University Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2008
– reviewed by Relebohile Moletsane

Contributors

Call for Contributors
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