Elizabeth Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4600-419X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making a Living
Livelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural …
The Cost of Terrorism
After Al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many democracies reacted to the event, and to international terrorism in general, by passing laws restricting civil liberties and political rights, raising questions about the balance between security and liberty. Such laws have produced alarms among civil libertarians, worldwide. Are the alarms justified? In this article we analyze the relationship between the yearly nu…
Gender, Migration and Multiple Livelihoods
Focussing on Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa, this study examines the social impact in migrant-labour source areas of dramatically reduced employment prospects in urban areas. It considers the implications for rural livelihoods and the role which gender relations play in making possible, or impeding, people's ability to construct diversified livelihoods. When livelihoods change, gendered rights, responsibilities and power must be renegotiated. Hu…
Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in North West Province, South Africa
Drawing on a case study from North West Province, this paper examines how, and why, rural livelihoods have changed in one of the former 'homelands' over the past four decades. It focuses on the nature and extent of processes of differentiation and the resources that have been critical in such processes. It examines the major risks different kinds of people face in their efforts to construct and reconstruct livelihoods and their responses to these…
Making a Living
Living Up to the Ads
Journal Article Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. By Simone Weil Davis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xii, 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2411-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-2446-6.) Get access Elizabeth Francis Elizabeth Francis University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, …
Making a Living
Learning from the local
(1999). Learning from the local: Rural livelihoods in ditsobotla, north west province, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 49-73
Courts under threat
In recent years ‘Patriots’, Freemen, sovereign citizens and members of so‐called common law courts have come into conflict with federal, state and local authorities. The media, various watchdog organizations and the authorities themselves have drawn our attention to these radical right groups and the individuals belonging to them. This article tackles the problem from a different angle. It is based on the responses of a random sample of state and…
Gender and rural livelihoods in Kenya
This article considers the implications for gender relations of different rural livelihoods. While many rural areas in Kenya have been drawn into intensive commercial production, others, formerly dependent on remittances from migrant labour, have seen these diminish. Recent empirical studies of gender and livelihoods in Kenya are compared. Commercial production and the drying up of remittances set up quite different processes in rural households.…
The role of L1 background and L2 instruction in the perception of fricative contrasts
Fricatives, by definition, produce turbulence, and in fricative-rich languages such as English the cues which distinguish them are rather subtle. In addition, developmentally they occur late in children's productions and appear to be relatively difficult for infants to perceive. Thus discrimination of the array of English fricatives would appear to pose particular problems for L2 learners from an L1 background such as Thai, which has relatively f…
Little Women
Little Women. Prod. by Denise DiNovi. Dir. by Gillian Armstrong. Columbia Pictures, 1994. 1 hr. 55 mins Get access Elizabeth Francis Elizabeth Francis Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1312–1313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945284 Published: 01 December 1995
History and Agrarian Change in South Africa
The new south African government plans a large-scale and rapid redistribution of land to African smallholder farmers. This programme draws on proposals put forward by the World Bank. Historians have been largely absent from processes of consultation surrounding the programme. Yet recent South African rural historiography has much to say about the limitations on the ability of the state to restructure agrarian relations. It also underlines the imp…
Migration and changing divisions of labour
A case study from western Kenya is used to explore the links between labour migration, rural economic decline and changes in key domestic relationships. Twentieth-century transformations in the regional political economy, together with processes of differentiation, have been closely bound up with changes, and continuities, in relationships within households, and in the ideologies which justify them. A central concept in the analysis is that of di…
The Land Question
RésuméEn Afrique du Sud, des lois récentes et des propositions par le gouvernement sur le droit foncier ressuscitent des politiques des politiques encourageant le régime foncier individuel et la consolidation de la division de la terre en “unités agricoles économiques,” selon des politiques administratives envisagées par l'état d'Afrique du Sud dans les années 50 et appliquées par le Kenya coloniale. L'article examine l'expérience kenyanne dans c…
Migration and differentiation in western Kenya
Drawing on sociological and economic research methods and fieldwork, we examine processes of long term and contemporary differentiation in two west Kenya sub‐locations. Our analysis is at variance with existing explanations which, by extrapolating from Central Kenya, have emphasised links between migration, land purchases and agriculture. We find that the interaction of economic and social processes with ecological constraints has resulted in lab…
Burma's Decade of Independence
The Land Question
Making a Living
Migration and differentiation in western Kenya
Drawing on sociological and economic research methods and fieldwork, we examine processes of long term and contemporary differentiation in two west Kenya sub‐locations. Our analysis is at variance with existing explanations which, by extrapolating from Central Kenya, have emphasised links between migration, land purchases and agriculture. We find that the interaction of economic and social processes with ecological constraints has resulted in lab…
Migration and changing divisions of labour
A case study from western Kenya is used to explore the links between labour migration, rural economic decline and changes in key domestic relationships. Twentieth-century transformations in the regional political economy, together with processes of differentiation, have been closely bound up with changes, and continuities, in relationships within households, and in the ideologies which justify them. A central concept in the analysis is that of di…
Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in North West Province, South Africa
Drawing on a case study from North West Province, this paper examines how, and why, rural livelihoods have changed in one of the former 'homelands' over the past four decades. It focuses on the nature and extent of processes of differentiation and the resources that have been critical in such processes. It examines the major risks different kinds of people face in their efforts to construct and reconstruct livelihoods and their responses to these…
Making a Living
Learning from the local
(1999). Learning from the local: Rural livelihoods in ditsobotla, north west province, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 49-73
The Cost of Terrorism
After Al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many democracies reacted to the event, and to international terrorism in general, by passing laws restricting civil liberties and political rights, raising questions about the balance between security and liberty. Such laws have produced alarms among civil libertarians, worldwide. Are the alarms justified? In this article we analyze the relationship between the yearly nu…
Living Up to the Ads
Journal Article Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. By Simone Weil Davis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xii, 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2411-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-2446-6.) Get access Elizabeth Francis Elizabeth Francis University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, …
Burma's Decade of Independence
The Land Question
RésuméEn Afrique du Sud, des lois récentes et des propositions par le gouvernement sur le droit foncier ressuscitent des politiques des politiques encourageant le régime foncier individuel et la consolidation de la division de la terre en “unités agricoles économiques,” selon des politiques administratives envisagées par l'état d'Afrique du Sud dans les années 50 et appliquées par le Kenya coloniale. L'article examine l'expérience kenyanne dans c…
Migration and differentiation in western Kenya
Drawing on sociological and economic research methods and fieldwork, we examine processes of long term and contemporary differentiation in two west Kenya sub‐locations. Our analysis is at variance with existing explanations which, by extrapolating from Central Kenya, have emphasised links between migration, land purchases and agriculture. We find that the interaction of economic and social processes with ecological constraints has resulted in lab…
Little Women
Little Women. Prod. by Denise DiNovi. Dir. by Gillian Armstrong. Columbia Pictures, 1994. 1 hr. 55 mins Get access Elizabeth Francis Elizabeth Francis Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1312–1313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945284 Published: 01 December 1995
History and Agrarian Change in South Africa
The new south African government plans a large-scale and rapid redistribution of land to African smallholder farmers. This programme draws on proposals put forward by the World Bank. Historians have been largely absent from processes of consultation surrounding the programme. Yet recent South African rural historiography has much to say about the limitations on the ability of the state to restructure agrarian relations. It also underlines the imp…
Migration and changing divisions of labour
A case study from western Kenya is used to explore the links between labour migration, rural economic decline and changes in key domestic relationships. Twentieth-century transformations in the regional political economy, together with processes of differentiation, have been closely bound up with changes, and continuities, in relationships within households, and in the ideologies which justify them. A central concept in the analysis is that of di…
The role of L1 background and L2 instruction in the perception of fricative contrasts
Fricatives, by definition, produce turbulence, and in fricative-rich languages such as English the cues which distinguish them are rather subtle. In addition, developmentally they occur late in children's productions and appear to be relatively difficult for infants to perceive. Thus discrimination of the array of English fricatives would appear to pose particular problems for L2 learners from an L1 background such as Thai, which has relatively f…
Gender and rural livelihoods in Kenya
This article considers the implications for gender relations of different rural livelihoods. While many rural areas in Kenya have been drawn into intensive commercial production, others, formerly dependent on remittances from migrant labour, have seen these diminish. Recent empirical studies of gender and livelihoods in Kenya are compared. Commercial production and the drying up of remittances set up quite different processes in rural households.…
Learning from the local
(1999). Learning from the local: Rural livelihoods in ditsobotla, north west province, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 49-73
Courts under threat
In recent years ‘Patriots’, Freemen, sovereign citizens and members of so‐called common law courts have come into conflict with federal, state and local authorities. The media, various watchdog organizations and the authorities themselves have drawn our attention to these radical right groups and the individuals belonging to them. This article tackles the problem from a different angle. It is based on the responses of a random sample of state and…
Living Up to the Ads
Journal Article Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. By Simone Weil Davis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xii, 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2411-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-2446-6.) Get access Elizabeth Francis Elizabeth Francis University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, …
Making a Living
Gender, Migration and Multiple Livelihoods
Focussing on Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa, this study examines the social impact in migrant-labour source areas of dramatically reduced employment prospects in urban areas. It considers the implications for rural livelihoods and the role which gender relations play in making possible, or impeding, people's ability to construct diversified livelihoods. When livelihoods change, gendered rights, responsibilities and power must be renegotiated. Hu…
Rural Livelihoods, Institutions and Vulnerability in North West Province, South Africa
Drawing on a case study from North West Province, this paper examines how, and why, rural livelihoods have changed in one of the former 'homelands' over the past four decades. It focuses on the nature and extent of processes of differentiation and the resources that have been critical in such processes. It examines the major risks different kinds of people face in their efforts to construct and reconstruct livelihoods and their responses to these…
Making a Living
The Cost of Terrorism
After Al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many democracies reacted to the event, and to international terrorism in general, by passing laws restricting civil liberties and political rights, raising questions about the balance between security and liberty. Such laws have produced alarms among civil libertarians, worldwide. Are the alarms justified? In this article we analyze the relationship between the yearly nu…
Making a Living
Livelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural …
The Land Question
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Livelihood (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)