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A gendered analysis of Section 48(2)(d) of the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to critically review the provision of section 48 (2) (d) of the Zimbabwean Constitution from a gendered perspective. Section 48 (2) (d) of the Constitution would seem to have abolished death ...
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency
for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ...
The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
This editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and
systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for
health. The papers ...
Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics?
(Wiley, 2017)
In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ...
Women, priests and the Anglican Church in Southern Africa: reformation of holy hierarchies
(Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2017)
The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA) is celebrating the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in 2017. The quotation
above is a statement made by the South African Council of ...
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change
(Taylor & Francis OA, 2017)
Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local ...
Association between perceived built environmental attributes and physical activity among adults in South Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
Background: To investigate the association between perceived environmental attributes and leisure-time and transport-related physical activity. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey involving 671 South Africans aged ...
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency
for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ...
Water materialities and citizen engagement: Testing the implications of water access and quality for community engagement in Ghana and South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
We analyze the relationship between perceptions of domestic water access, and quality, in
relation community engagement. While others have suggested linkages between material
conditions of water access and engagement ...
Towards an ethnography of climate change variability: Perceptions and coping mechanisms of women and men from Lambani village, Limpopo province
(SAGE, 2017)
Attention to gender and equity has lagged behind
in climate change research, programming, national
policy-making and in the international negotiations.
Studies on climate change and gender links with
climate change ...