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Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the
Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the
Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her
activism, few examine Maathai as a scholar whose contributions to
various disciplines and causes spanned more than three decades. In
Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai,
Besi Brillian Muhonja presents the words and works of Maathai as
theoretical concepts attesting to her contributions to gender
equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance,
and indigenous African languages and knowledges. Muhonja's
well-rounded portrait of Maathai's ideas offers a corrective to the
one-dimensional characterization of Maathai typical of other works.
Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary
studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science,
environmental studies, and development studies, among others,
Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the
urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies
in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have
thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates,
the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, centering
within Senegalese studies themes and elements of alternative,
nonbinary, variant, and nonheteronormative gender identities,
sexualities, and voices. Contributors demonstrate that nationalist
and anticolonial discourses propelled by deep and lingering
socioeconomic inequalities have led, in postcolonial Senegal, to
vitriolic scapegoating of individuals and communities with variant
sexual and gender identities. The chapters in this volume look
inward to the voices and experiences of the Senegalese people to
challenge nationalist representations of advocacy for the
liberation of gender and sexual minorities in Senegal as a function
of a Western neocolonialist agenda.
Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge makes a case for the
need to de-gender the framing and study of parental legacy. The
actualization of an entire collection on this dyad foregrounding
motherhood without particularizing the absence of fatherhood is in
itself revolutionary. This assemblage of analytical, narrative and
creative renderings offers cross-disciplinary conceptualizations of
maternal experiences across difference and mothering sons at
intersections. The authors' mother knowledge, or that of their
subjects, delivers new insights into the appellations mother, son,
motherhood and sonhood.
In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human
and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja
and Babacar M'Baye, contributors explore the application of
ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies.
Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this
Kenya-focused volume draw from the diverse fields of postcolonial
studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology,
political science, environmental studies, media studies, and
development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and
necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer
studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and
humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been
largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters
are subversive, complex, and inclusive. They advance within Kenyan
studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant,
and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices,
as well as approaches to doing knowledge. Underscoring the
timeliness of such a text is evidence rendered in sections of the
collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric
scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic
works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the
voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of
analysis and epistemological derivation.
This study of twenty first century girlhoods and womanhoods charts
a new area of scholarship on Kenya. The chapters investigate
questions related to how new rituals of girlhood and womanhood that
materialize when religious, indigenous, and foreign worlds
encounter each other are re-structuring family and society,
recasting roles, and informing fresh conceptualizations of African
girlhood and womanhood. The author's interdisciplinary analysis and
writing journeys through the different stages of girlhood and
womanhood as ritualized by Kenya's 21st century middle class, and
teases out the implications of these peculiarities to identity
(re)creation and the restructuring of societies' organs, and
traditionally gendered institutions. Applying a critical African
studies lens, the arguments in this book center women as
originators of action and thought without inquiring into a male
other. Essentially, this work disrupts patri-centered constructions
and examinations of female bodies and identities. The resulting
deductions inform on the substratum of Kenyan girls and women's
self-definitions as manifest through their experiences and
ritualized practices, and articulate the impact of the performances
of these bodies and identities on Kenyan and global societies.
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