Global Exchanges and Gender Perspectives in Africa

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Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.97

Keywords:

Global Exchanges, Gender, liberal ideology, ideological legitimization

Synopsis

The global perspectives adopted in this volume by the authors, from different academic disciplines and social experiences, ought not to be locked in sterile
linearity which within process of globalisation would fail to perceive, the irreversible opening up of the worlds of the south. There is the need within the framework of the analyses presented here, to quite cogently define the sense of the notion of the market. The market here does not refer to saving or the localised exchange of goods, a perspective which is imposed by normative perceptions.
In fact, a strictly materialistic reading of exchange would be included, since every social practice and interaction implies a communitarian transaction; meanwhile the exchange system under study here broadens to root out the obligation of the maximisation of mercantile profit from the cycle of exchange.
Trade here would have a meaning closer to those of old, one of human interaction, in a way that one could also refer to “bon commerce” between humans.
In one way, trade places itself at the heart of social exchanges, included the power of money, and is carried along by a multitude of social interactions. The
reader is called upon to take into account the major mercantile formations of the social trade system, the market society, without forgetting the diversity of
exchange routes as well as the varying modalities of social construction, at the margins and within market logics – those of implicit value in trade between
humans – which the texts herein also seek to review.

The age-old project of restructuring the domestic economy, the market society as it has developed in the West, – whence it has set out to conquer the whole
wide world – places at the very centre of the current capitalist expansion the challenge of imperatively reshaping gender identity, inter alia, in market relations.

 

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Author Biographies

Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo

Professor of sociology, is Director of Research at CNRS, LAIOS, IIAC, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France and Director of the Research Group on Local Initiatives (GRIL) at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. From 2002 to 2008, he was Deputy Executive Secretary of CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal.

 

Roseline M.Achieng

 is a sociologist. She is currently in charge of developing the academic and research components of the sociology sections of the School of Arts, Monash South Africa, a campus of Monash University, Australia.

Béatrice Faye

 holds a PhD in Philosophy. She teaches Analytic and Oriental
Philosophy at the Inter-Institute Philosophy Consortium, Saint Augustin Centre,
and the Spirituality and Theology Institute (IST). Her research interests include the
theology of religiosity, particularly the enculturation of consecrated life in the
African context, the philosophical questions related to Gender for the promotion
of the ‘Women’s Genius’ concept in Africa. Dr Faye was a laureate of the 2002
CODESRIA Gender Institute, and a beneficiary of the CODESRIA Small Grants
for Thesis Writing in 2005.

Edward N. Waswa Kisiang

ani is a scholar and political commentator. He is
currently the Director of Alumni Programmes at Kenyatta University, Nairobi,
where he has taught Political History for many years. In 2002, Dr Kisiang’ani was
a Fulbright scholar at the Boston College, U.S.A., and in 2006 a North-South
Cooperation resident scholar at the University of Nantes, France, where he carried
out research on “The African Youth, Globalization and Postnational Identities”.
He has published in the fields of gender, biotechnology, political theory and the
youth

Zachary Arochi Kwena

 holds an MA degree in Geography from Kenyatta
University. He joined Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in May 2002,
and has risen through the ranks to become a Study Coordinator of the Male
Microbicide Safety, Acceptance and Efficacy against STIs/HIV project based in
Kisumu, Kenya. Most of Kwena’s research and publications revolve round social
aspects of STIs/HIV and community health.

Mathias Marie A. Ndinga

 is a professor of Economic Sciences at University
Yaoundé II, Cameroon. And also teaches at University Marien Ngouabi,
Brazzaville. He is a member of the technical branch of the National Committee
against Poverty at Cameroon’s Ministry of Territorial Planning and Management.
His research interests are in the fields of governance, poverty, labour economics,
gender and international trade. Prof Ndinga is an active member of the African
Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and the Council for Development of
Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He was also a laureate of the
CODESRIA 2002 Gender Institute.

Samwel Ong’wen Okuro

 is a medical historian based at Bondo University,
Kenya. He has vast research experience on HIV/AIDS and agrarian processes in
Africa. Dr Okuro’s most recent article: “Daniel Arap Moi and the Politics of
HIV/AIDS in Kenya” was in the African Journal of AIDS Research Vol. 8, Issue 3,
2009.

Iwebunor Okwechime

is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations,
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has published in reputable
local and international journals. He was a laureate of the CODESRIA 2000
Governance Institute and the 2002 Gender Institute

Zo Randriamaro

 is a sociologist and human rights and gender activist with
extensive experience on gender and economic issues. She has presented papers
on these issues at different meetings of academics and activists at regional and
global levels. +She was Manager of the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa
(GERA) Programme of the Third World Network, based in Accra, Ghana. She
is author inter alia of “African Women Challenging Neo-liberal Economic
Orthodoxy: The Conception and Mission of the GERA Programme”, in Gender
& Development, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2003, “Gender and Trade: Overview Report”
in Bridge, Development-Gender, 2007 and “Financing for the Poor and Women: A
Policy Critique” in B. Herman, F. Pietracci, K. Sharma (eds) Financing for Development:
Proposals from Business and Civil Society, United Nations University, Policy Perspectives
6, UNU Press: New York, 2001. She has also served as expert at UNIFEM
Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal. Randriamaro is member of Women environment
and Development Organization (WEDO) board and Development Alternatives
with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

Gérard Tchouassi

 is a professor of Economic Sciences at the University of
Yaoundé II-Soa, Cameroon. Winner of both Agence Universitaire de la
Francophonie (AUF) and Grand Lyon (France) scholarchips, he has been a visiting
professor to many universities. He has worked as a resource person and research
consultant with many national and international organisations, particularly the United
Nation’s Women’s Fund (UNIFEM). His research areas include women’s
entrepreneurship, microfinance, fair trade, regional integration, cross border trade,
gender analysis, migration, development aid, formal and informal financial systems,
pro-poor analysis, economic governance, economic attractiveness, social and
economic solidarity

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