The challenges of doing gender research in developing countries
Focus on Malawi
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v4i1.45Abstract
We aim to illustrate how the tenor and character of the initial importation of the concept of gender into the Malawian context continues to impact, construct, and pose challenges to the study of gender in Malawi. Ultimately, we argue that complex and ethnographically grounded approaches to studying gender in Malawi may serve as a corrective to a long legacy of conceptual imperialism that has ramifications for both the researched and researchers in Malawi.
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Butler, J. (1999). Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity, Routledge. Butler, J. (2004). Undoing Gender, Routledge.
Cheah, P. (2006). Inhuman conditions: Cosmopolitanism and human rights. Boston, Harvard University Press.
Carrillo, R. (1992). Battered Dreams: Violence Against Women as an Obstacle to Development. New York : United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Chilowa, W. a. C. Gaynor. (1992). Malawi country overview paper, presented at the EDI/SDA regional seminar for English speaking countries on the design and implementation of social action and other targeted poverty programmes. Centre for Social Research.
Chipeta, L., N. Mulikita, and B. Gallagher (2002). Gender research training manual. Zomba, Centre for Social Research
Dasgupta, J. (2007). Gender training: Politics or development. Revisiting gender training: The making and remaking of gender knowledge. M. a. W. Mukhopadhyay, F. Oxford, KIT Press.
Edelman, L. (2004). No Future: Queer theory and the death drive, Duke University Press.
Evans-Pritchard, E. (1937 [1976]). Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande, Oxford University Press.
Gaynor, C. (1991). Report of the training workshop on design and implementation of poverty alleviation. Zomba: Centre for Social Research.
Heise, L., J. Pitanguy, and A. Germain. (1994). Violence against women: the hidden health burden.
Halberstam, J. (2005). In a queer time and place: transgender bodies, subcultural lives, NYU Press.
Holland, D. (2006). Socializing Knowledge: The production and circulation of social science in Malawi, 1964-2004. Education and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. PhD.
Kaplen, C., Ed. (1999). Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State, Duke University Press.
Karp, I. a. M., D. , Ed. (2000). African Philosophy as cultural inquiry, Indiana University Press.
Kolwawole, M. a. E. M., Ed. (1997). Womanism and African consciousness, Africa World Press.
Liwewe, O. and P. Matinga. (2005). Socio Cultural Gender Based Factors that contribute to woman and girls’ vulnerability to HIV infection in Mulanje and Thyolo: A Study Commissioned by the joint OXFAM programme in Malawi.
Mahmood, S. (2005). Politics of piety: The Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Merry, S. E. (2006b). Human rights and gender violence: Translating international law into local justice. Chicago, University of Chicago.
Mohanty, C. (2003). Under western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity, Duke University Press.
Moore, H. L. (2006). The future of gender or the end of a brilliant career? Feminist Anthropology: Past, present and future. P. a. M. S. Geller. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Moore, S. F. (2001). “The international production of authoritative knowledge: The case of drought stricken West Africa.” Ethnography 2(2): 161-189.
Mukhopadyay, M. a. F. W., Ed. (2007). Revisiting gender training: The making and remaking of gender knowledge, Oxfam Publications.
Murdock, D. (2003). “That stubborn “doing good” question: Ethical/epistemological concerns in the study of NGOs.” Ethnos 68(4): 507-533.
Nnaemeka, O., Ed. (1998). Sisterhood, feminism, and power: From Afrika to the Diaspora. Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press.
Ntata, P. (1998). Customary Law and UN Conventions on Women’s and Children’s Rights, UNICEF/CPAR, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Ntata,P., T. Bisika, and S. Konyani. (2005) Violence against Girls and education, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi.
Ntata P. and J. Kamoto. (2004). Impact of Flooding in the Lower Shire Valley, Unpublished research report submitted to Dan Church Aid, Lilongwe. Malawi
Phillips, L., Ed. (2006). The Womanist Reader, Routledge.
Ribohn, U. (2002). Human rights and the multiparty system have swallowed our traditions: Conceiving women and culture in the New Malawi. A democracy of chameleons: politics and culture in the new Malawi. H. Englund, Nordic Institute.
Scott, J. (1996). Feminism and history. Feminism and History. J. Scott. Oxford.
Steady, F. (2005). An investigative framework for gender research in Africa in the new millennium. African Gender Studies. O. Oweyumi, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tawfik, L. a. W., Susan (2007). “Sex in Geneva, sex in Lilongwe, sex in Balaka.” Social Science and medicine 64(5).
Verran, H. (2001). Science and African Logic, University of Chicago.
WLSA Malawi. (2002). Dispossessing The Widow: Gender Based Violence In Malawi, Kachere Publications/WLSA Malawi Zomba and Limbe.Zeleza, P. (2003). “Academic freedom in the neoliberal order: Governments, globalization, governance, and gender.” JHEA/RESA 1: 149-194.
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2009-04-01
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Ntata, P. R. T., & Biruk, C. (2009). The challenges of doing gender research in developing countries: Focus on Malawi. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 4(1), 56–70. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v4i1.45
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