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2. Transgressing gendered spaces? The impacts of energy in an indigenous village of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Mazzone, Antonella
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INDIGENOUS peoples of South America , *FEMINISM , *GAS as fuel , *PARTICIPANT observation , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
This paper investigates how gendered spaces are configured within local socio-cultural systems of beliefs and in what way energy interacts with cultural constructions in an Indigenous village of the Brazilian Amazon. Particularly, this paper explores the perceived changes brought by fuel availability and affordability on gendered division of space and local cosmologies. Ethnographic techniques were adopted in the collection of primary data, particularly participant observation and in-depth interviews were best suited to understand the lived experiences of these changes. This paper found that access to cooking gas and fuel for transportation can partially shift pre-existing gendered spaces and, in turn, gendered practices. However, this shift does not challenge pre-existing hierarchies of power which still limit women's freedom of movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Changing perceptions of the value of girls' secondary education among the parents in rural Tanzania.
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Iddy, Hassan
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EDUCATION of girls , *SECONDARY education , *PARENTS , *FEMINISM , *HUMAN capital , *LIMINALITY , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
Parents are the key people in the family when it comes to determining the extent and type of education for their children. Within the theoretical frameworks of African feminisms, human capital theory, and the liminality theory, this paper examines the parental perceptions of the girls' secondary education in Tanzania's rural communities. Moreover, it determines the effects of those perceptions on the girls' secondary schooling in rural Tanzania. Using the ethnographic research design, this qualitative study found that, although some parents perceived girls' secondary education negatively, there were some glimmers of hope and changing attitudes among parents. The findings further indicate that there are tensions and conflicting perspectives, as some of the parents struggled to reconcile emerging beliefs about girls' education with the existing largely conservative cultural and familial practices. This changing perception on the girls' secondary education signals a favourable disposition towards the improvement of girls' secondary schooling, particularly in the largely conservative rural communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Smashing the patriarchy to address gender health inequities: Past, present and future perspectives from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
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Came, Heather, Matheson, Anna, and Kidd, Jacquie
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SOCIAL determinants of health , *SYSTEMATIC reviews , *SOCIAL media , *SOCIAL norms , *FAMILIES , *CULTURAL pluralism , *FEAR , *PATIENT-centered care , *SEX distribution , *INCOME , *RIGHT to health , *HEALTH equity , *ETHNOLOGY , *WOMEN'S health , *MEDICAL needs assessment - Abstract
The second wave feminist dream of smashing the patriarchy remains a task yet to be completed on a complex to do list. Women, particularly able-bodied cis-gendered white women however do enjoy the privilege of living longer than men. But our longer lives take place within patriarchal-capitalist systems where many women's social and cultural rights continue to be compromised. How do we ensure that all women can exercise our right to health and wellbeing? In this paper, the authors examine, critique, review and re-vision the dynamics of power and patriarchy over three distinct time periods – 1999, 2019 and 2039. We look to the past to track progress; we look to the present to see what we have achieved and look to the future for what might be. This conceptual paper is informed by the authors' expert knowledge, a review of the literature and the novel use of speculative ethnography. The authors conclude that patriarchy remains not only a negative determinant of women's health that needs to be smashed, but is also a threat to all people and to planetary health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. From lines to circles: love as a component of validity.
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Carspecken, Lucinda and Saxena, Pooja
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PRE-sentence investigation reports , *ETHNOLOGY , *FEMINISM , *WILLINGNESS to pay , *CONSUMER behavior - Abstract
In this paper, we argue that love is not only compatible with validity in social inquiry but is an essential part of it. The work of coming to know others is similar to the work of emotional relationship, and the two overlap. In the ethnographic tradition, validity, or trustworthiness in research is established through practices like transparency about one's position, careful listening, detailed sensory description, time in the field, participant feedback, participation in daily activities, acknowledgment of impermanence, willingness to set aside assumptions and an attempt to engage readers with the community being studied. We argue that these activities are core both to valid studies and to love. The epistemological understanding of love in our ethnography goes beyond rational and objective notions of research. It includes them but it acknowledges, too, that affect and recognition are fundamental to how we make sense of the world. We invite qualitative researchers to enlarge the scope of academic discourse by including love explicitly; both as a rationale for research and as a support for the trustworthiness of our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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