Local Knowledge and Gender In Ghana

by Muller, Christine

• ISBN13: 9783899423785
• ISBN10: 389942378X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Knowledge between Globalization and Localization	9	(26)
Introduction	9	(5)
The Emergence of the World-Wide Women's Web	14	(12)
The ``Discovery'' of Women for Development	18	(4)
UN Conferences as Vehicles of Movements	22	(4)
Global and Cross-National Networking	26	(9)
Doing Research and Writing Wor(l)ds	35	(16)
Setting of Research	35	(5)
The Interview Partners and Situations	40	(3)
From the Process of Fieldwork to the Process of Writing: Politics, Representation and Reflexivity	43	(8)
Conceptualising Local Knowledge	51	(14)
Agency-Orientation in Sociology of Knowledge	51	(3)
The Concept of Space/Time and Empirical Operationalisation	54	(3)
Research as an Explorative Process	57	(2)
Methods: Chances and Limitations	59	(6)
Knowledge Transfer over Generations: Continuity and Change	65	(30)
The Old Generation: ``The young ones will not listen''	66	(1)
The Process of Knowledge Generation	67	(6)
The Mediation of Knowledge: Symbolic Spaces and Practices in the Everyday World	73	(10)
``At first there were gods in town''	74	(2)
``To drive the sickness out of town''	76	(2)
Worshipping at the River Susuan	78	(3)
Symbolic Spaces in Transition	81	(2)
The Young Generation: ``Nowadays we are Christians''	83	(10)
Different Strategies in the Process of Knowledge Generation	86	(1)
The ``traditional'' type: Afia	86	(2)
The ``mixed'' type: Kofi	88	(1)
The ``educated'' type: Akosua	89	(3)
The Meaning of Formal Education	92	(1)
The Emergence of Ambivalences in Gendered Relations	93	(2)
``Traditional'' Institutions as Arenas of Knowledge Struggle	95	(32)
Asymmetries within ``Traditional'' Institutions	96	(10)
The Queenmother's Dilemma	99	(3)
Loss within the Political Spaces: From ``Complementarity'' to Asymmetry	102	(4)
Challenging of Spaces: The Subqueenmothers	106	(7)
``We are not too shy'': The Long Way to the Palace...	109	(1)
...and how to get into the Palace	110	(3)
Discourse about Political Spaces: ``Due to Beijing''	113	(11)
The Negotiation of Tradition ``They want us to live like in ancient times''	116	(2)
Creation of New Spaces: The Queenmothers' association	118	(3)
Moving in Different Spaces: Nana Ama Serwaa	121	(1)
Self-Organization: Female Economy, Social Security and Public Sphere	122	(2)
The Knowledge Pillars	124	(3)
Social Networking between Women's Organizations	127	(24)
The Women's Forum at Sunyani: A Platform for Change	128	(13)
Organising Development: The National Council of Women and Development	135	(2)
The Women's Forum at Accra: Another Platform for Change	137	(2)
The Organizational Structure of the NCWD	139	(2)
The Pan-African Network Women in Law and Development Africa (WiLDAF)	141	(8)
Initiating WiLDAF: From Local Realities to Transnational Networking...	141	(3)
The Organizational Structure: Struggling for Power on the Ground	144	(1)
WILDAF 1999: Backwards and Forwards	145	(1)
...and from Transnational Networking back to Local Reality	146	(3)
Networking as a Knowledge Bridge	149	(2)
The Migrating Knowledge	151	(14)
Becoming a 31st December Woman	151	(6)
Every Human Being is a Political Person	157	(4)
Women doing Development	161	(4)
Decentralised Political Institutions: Knowledge between Bureaucratising and Lobbying	165	(18)
Processes of Decentralisation	166	(1)
The Unit Committee Council in Susuanso	167	(3)
The District Assembly Man: Linking Politics	170	(1)
The District Assembly	171	(4)
Planning Development-Development Planning	171	(2)
The Policy of the District Assembly	173	(2)
Planning at Regional Level	175	(1)
Reflecting on Women's Organizations: Changing Gender Ideologies?	176	(1)
De-bureaucratising Development Knowledge	177	(6)
Glocalised Practices: Towards a Knowledge Society	183	(6)
Bibliography	189	(18)
Homepages: Web Addresses	205	(2)
List of Abbreviations	207