Janet Bujra
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 144470 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janet Bujra |
| NOMBRES | Janet |
| APELLIDO | Bujra |
| FIRMA | BUJRA J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6518-2421 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 223 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The climate emergency in Africa
represented the argument of Roco Hiraldo and Steffen Bhm's article, 'Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal'.The erroneous passage has been replaced by the following description: Drawing on a West Senegalese case study of nature-based tourism (NBT) and mangrove reforestation payment for ecosystems service projects (PES), Hiraldo and Bhm show how the development …
The climate emergency in Africa
The world's political leaders gathered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December 2023 for COP28the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference.The conferences have long been critiqued for their failure to introduce systemic change in the face of the climate crisis, but COP28 has plumbed new depths for the abundance of fossil fuels lobbyists and representatives of the global food and agricultural sector in attendance.The …
Climate catastrophe
Climate changes are disproportionately affecting Africa. In this outstanding book, employing a political economy analysis, Jonathan Neale shows how the global crisis might be averted. A forensic examination of the way that fossil fuels are implicated, and how use of them could be diminished in favour of investing in renewable energy, is allied to a consideration of the political forces which might be marshalled against the energy corporates which…
Connections 2
Creating alliances, making
Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
Journal Article Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change By Ousseina D. Alidou Get access Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change By Ousseina D. Alidou (Madison, WI and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), xix + 225 pp. Price PB $26.95. EAN 978–0299294649. Janet Bujra Janet Bujra University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Pepe Roberts, 1943–2015
Pepe (short for Penelope) was an exuberant and lively character who contributed much to the definition of ROAPE's remit in its earlier years.She was a member of the Editorial Working Group from 1981 until 1997, when she 'retired' to an old farmhouse in the South of France.Born in Wales, her parents were teachers who later moved to Southampton.Pepe went to Cambridge to do a degree in Social Anthropology.She became passionate about Africa after wor…
Não vamos esquecer (We will not forget)
The views expressed here are our own unless specifically accredited
Roape's Africa Research Fund
A few months ago ROAPE decided to initiate a small research grants competition for African scholars and/or activists based in Africa and pursuing a political economy agenda. This has turned out to
Tanzania in transition
Tanzania in transition: from Nyerere to Mkapa, edited by Kjell Havnevik and Aida Isinika, Dar es Salaam, Mkuki wa Nyota, 2010, 306 pp., £24.95, ISBN 9789987080861 Between Nyerere, the first preside
The accumulation of dispossession
Eleven years ago, this journal published a special issue on ‘The Struggle for Land’ in Africa (volume 27, issue 84, June 2000). Its focus was on struggles over access to land and land rights, probi
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
Haroub Othman (1942–2009)
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the early death of Professor Haroub Othman in Zanzibar on 28 June 2009. He was only 66 and had much more to give. Haroub had been Professor of Development St
Another World is Possible
As 2007 opens, the world's attention is predominantly focused on the worsening crisis and imperialist violence in Iraq and now, too, Somalia. In both cases, the current context has roots in the con
Lost in Translation? the Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork
Class relations
A critical consideration of the way social class is defined in studies of HIV/ AIDS in Africa exposes the inadequacies of ‘indexical’ accounts in which class is reduced to a statistical category (the predominant mode of analysis in epidemiological research). It compares this to relational accounts which view class as a set of dynamic interactions between groups struggling to assert or defend social positions relating to livelihoods. Arguing that …
Aids as a crisis in social reproduction
Using the conceptual framework of social reproduction as a way of reassessing the AIDS crisis in Africa, this paper finds contradictory tendencies: a devastating impact on agricultural modes of livelihood which sustain the majority and which enable workers to present themselves as cheap labour, but also a crisis for the reproduction of capital as its supply of such labour is depleted. The impact on and response to the epidemic by the state is exp…
Agendas, past & future
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of The Review of African Political Economy in 1974. At the time, its founders were unsure if it would get off the ground and they certainly never thought it would last thirty years! Apart from debate about what its role would be, there were doubts about their own stamina, and about whether successor generations would emerge to take it on. The challenge was set out by Anderson in relation to anoth…
Serving Class
Janet Bujra, Serving Class: masculinity and the feminisation of domestic service in Tanzania. International African Library 24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 2000, 206 pp., £14.95, ISBN: 0 7486 1484 2 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Targeting Men for a Change
Campaigns against the spread of AIDS in Africa have recently begun to target men. This raises challenging questions not only about forms of intervention, but also about theoretical perspectives which have abandoned essentialist views of men and masculinity and shifted to a perception of masculinities as plural and contingent. In addressing these concerns, JANET BUJRA re-interrogates field data from a recent study in Tanzania and reviews AIDS init…
Social science research on Aids in Africa
An international symposium on the ‘Social Sciences and AIDS in Africa’, held in Sali Portudal, Senegal, in November 1996, served as an important forum for bringing together English and French speaking researchers and AIDS activists. Jointly organised by Codesria (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), CNLS (the National Committee for the Prevention of AIDS in Senegal) and Ostrom (The French Institute of Scientific Rese…
Gender, class and empowerment
(1993). Gender, class and empowerment: a tale of two Tanzanian servants. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 68-78
Challenging gender inequalities
It has been nearly a decade since ROAPE published its first issue specifically devoted to the situation of women in Africa, 'Women, Oppression and Liberation' (no 27/28, 1984). As Roberts noted in her Debates piece then, 'Feminism in Africa; Feminism and Africa', this was not the first time that articles dealing with questions of gender and women's struggles had been carried in ROAPE. But in highlighting this as an area of concern, no 27/28 serve…
The politics of education and cultural production
Taxing development in Tanzania
The extension of a development tax to women in Tanzania raises the general issue of the relevance of gender to patterns of economic development in a country with a ‘socialist’ reputation. This article looks at the link between gender and development in Tanzania, but equally importantly it focuses on the way in which the question of gender has been contested and debated within Tanzania. While the debate on gender has highlighted the way in which ‘…
Restructuring Capital
Women 'Entrepreneurs' of Early Nairobi
Cet article vise deux objectifs: le premier veut montrer comment et pourquoi les femmes vinrent s'établir dans les toutes premières années du XXe siècle et qu'une fois sur place, pourquoi elles devinrent des prostituées; le second veut être une explication des voies par lesquelles ces femmes indépendantes ont su créer une telle vie sociale, par leur adhésion à l'Islam, leurs réseaux à la fois de pseudo-parenté et d'urbanité sociale, et par l'inve…
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
The accumulation of dispossession
Eleven years ago, this journal published a special issue on ‘The Struggle for Land’ in Africa (volume 27, issue 84, June 2000). Its focus was on struggles over access to land and land rights, probi
Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation
The Dynamics of Political Action
A reassessment and redefinition of the whole field of political groupings from the most spontaneous to the most institutionalized, using comparative data. The paper reviews some current generalizations and hypotheses concerning factionalism (such as those of Nicholas, Spiro, and Friedrich), and attempts a comparative analysis of the circumstances conducive to change in factional situations
Production, Property, Prostitution. ' Sexual Politics ' in Atu
Bujra Janet M. Production, Property, Prostitution. ' Sexual Politics ' in Atu.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 17, n°65, 1977. Des femmes sur l'afrique des femmes. pp. 13-39
Life Among the Poor in Cairo
Serving Class
Janet Bujra, Serving Class: masculinity and the feminisation of domestic service in Tanzania. International African Library 24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 2000, 206 pp., £14.95, ISBN: 0 7486 1484 2 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 3
A House Divided
Connections 2
Creating alliances, making
Class relations
A critical consideration of the way social class is defined in studies of HIV/ AIDS in Africa exposes the inadequacies of ‘indexical’ accounts in which class is reduced to a statistical category (the predominant mode of analysis in epidemiological research). It compares this to relational accounts which view class as a set of dynamic interactions between groups struggling to assert or defend social positions relating to livelihoods. Arguing that …
Targeting Men for a Change
Campaigns against the spread of AIDS in Africa have recently begun to target men. This raises challenging questions not only about forms of intervention, but also about theoretical perspectives which have abandoned essentialist views of men and masculinity and shifted to a perception of masculinities as plural and contingent. In addressing these concerns, JANET BUJRA re-interrogates field data from a recent study in Tanzania and reviews AIDS init…
Women in Tanzania
This book is a general analysis of women in developing countries. Women's subordination and oppression in Tanzania is a central question, and the book discusses the position of women in production and reproduction. It also contains critical annotations of selected books and articles on the subject
Aids as a crisis in social reproduction
Using the conceptual framework of social reproduction as a way of reassessing the AIDS crisis in Africa, this paper finds contradictory tendencies: a devastating impact on agricultural modes of livelihood which sustain the majority and which enable workers to present themselves as cheap labour, but also a crisis for the reproduction of capital as its supply of such labour is depleted. The impact on and response to the epidemic by the state is exp…
Agendas, past & future
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of The Review of African Political Economy in 1974. At the time, its founders were unsure if it would get off the ground and they certainly never thought it would last thirty years! Apart from debate about what its role would be, there were doubts about their own stamina, and about whether successor generations would emerge to take it on. The challenge was set out by Anderson in relation to anoth…
Social science research on Aids in Africa
An international symposium on the ‘Social Sciences and AIDS in Africa’, held in Sali Portudal, Senegal, in November 1996, served as an important forum for bringing together English and French speaking researchers and AIDS activists. Jointly organised by Codesria (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), CNLS (the National Committee for the Prevention of AIDS in Senegal) and Ostrom (The French Institute of Scientific Rese…
Gender, class and empowerment
(1993). Gender, class and empowerment: a tale of two Tanzanian servants. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 68-78
Taxing development in Tanzania
The extension of a development tax to women in Tanzania raises the general issue of the relevance of gender to patterns of economic development in a country with a ‘socialist’ reputation. This article looks at the link between gender and development in Tanzania, but equally importantly it focuses on the way in which the question of gender has been contested and debated within Tanzania. While the debate on gender has highlighted the way in which ‘…
The politics of education and cultural production
The Dynamics of Political Action
A reassessment and redefinition of the whole field of political groupings from the most spontaneous to the most institutionalized, using comparative data. The paper reviews some current generalizations and hypotheses concerning factionalism (such as those of Nicholas, Spiro, and Friedrich), and attempts a comparative analysis of the circumstances conducive to change in factional situations
Women 'Entrepreneurs' of Early Nairobi
Cet article vise deux objectifs: le premier veut montrer comment et pourquoi les femmes vinrent s'établir dans les toutes premières années du XXe siècle et qu'une fois sur place, pourquoi elles devinrent des prostituées; le second veut être une explication des voies par lesquelles ces femmes indépendantes ont su créer une telle vie sociale, par leur adhésion à l'Islam, leurs réseaux à la fois de pseudo-parenté et d'urbanité sociale, et par l'inve…
Production, Property, Prostitution. ' Sexual Politics ' in Atu
Bujra Janet M. Production, Property, Prostitution. ' Sexual Politics ' in Atu.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 17, n°65, 1977. Des femmes sur l'afrique des femmes. pp. 13-39
A House Divided
Women United, Women Divided. Comparative Studies in Ten Contemporary Cultures
Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation
Life Among the Poor in Cairo
Restructuring Capital
Women in Tanzania
This book is a general analysis of women in developing countries. Women's subordination and oppression in Tanzania is a central question, and the book discusses the position of women in production and reproduction. It also contains critical annotations of selected books and articles on the subject
The politics of education and cultural production
Taxing development in Tanzania
The extension of a development tax to women in Tanzania raises the general issue of the relevance of gender to patterns of economic development in a country with a ‘socialist’ reputation. This article looks at the link between gender and development in Tanzania, but equally importantly it focuses on the way in which the question of gender has been contested and debated within Tanzania. While the debate on gender has highlighted the way in which ‘…
Gender, class and empowerment
(1993). Gender, class and empowerment: a tale of two Tanzanian servants. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 68-78
Challenging gender inequalities
It has been nearly a decade since ROAPE published its first issue specifically devoted to the situation of women in Africa, 'Women, Oppression and Liberation' (no 27/28, 1984). As Roberts noted in her Debates piece then, 'Feminism in Africa; Feminism and Africa', this was not the first time that articles dealing with questions of gender and women's struggles had been carried in ROAPE. But in highlighting this as an area of concern, no 27/28 serve…
Social science research on Aids in Africa
An international symposium on the ‘Social Sciences and AIDS in Africa’, held in Sali Portudal, Senegal, in November 1996, served as an important forum for bringing together English and French speaking researchers and AIDS activists. Jointly organised by Codesria (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), CNLS (the National Committee for the Prevention of AIDS in Senegal) and Ostrom (The French Institute of Scientific Rese…
Targeting Men for a Change
Campaigns against the spread of AIDS in Africa have recently begun to target men. This raises challenging questions not only about forms of intervention, but also about theoretical perspectives which have abandoned essentialist views of men and masculinity and shifted to a perception of masculinities as plural and contingent. In addressing these concerns, JANET BUJRA re-interrogates field data from a recent study in Tanzania and reviews AIDS init…
Serving Class
Janet Bujra, Serving Class: masculinity and the feminisation of domestic service in Tanzania. International African Library 24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 2000, 206 pp., £14.95, ISBN: 0 7486 1484 2 paperback. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Aids as a crisis in social reproduction
Using the conceptual framework of social reproduction as a way of reassessing the AIDS crisis in Africa, this paper finds contradictory tendencies: a devastating impact on agricultural modes of livelihood which sustain the majority and which enable workers to present themselves as cheap labour, but also a crisis for the reproduction of capital as its supply of such labour is depleted. The impact on and response to the epidemic by the state is exp…
Agendas, past & future
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of The Review of African Political Economy in 1974. At the time, its founders were unsure if it would get off the ground and they certainly never thought it would last thirty years! Apart from debate about what its role would be, there were doubts about their own stamina, and about whether successor generations would emerge to take it on. The challenge was set out by Anderson in relation to anoth…
Lost in Translation? the Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork
Class relations
A critical consideration of the way social class is defined in studies of HIV/ AIDS in Africa exposes the inadequacies of ‘indexical’ accounts in which class is reduced to a statistical category (the predominant mode of analysis in epidemiological research). It compares this to relational accounts which view class as a set of dynamic interactions between groups struggling to assert or defend social positions relating to livelihoods. Arguing that …
Another World is Possible
As 2007 opens, the world's attention is predominantly focused on the worsening crisis and imperialist violence in Iraq and now, too, Somalia. In both cases, the current context has roots in the con
Haroub Othman (1942–2009)
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the early death of Professor Haroub Othman in Zanzibar on 28 June 2009. He was only 66 and had much more to give. Haroub had been Professor of Development St
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
The accumulation of dispossession
Eleven years ago, this journal published a special issue on ‘The Struggle for Land’ in Africa (volume 27, issue 84, June 2000). Its focus was on struggles over access to land and land rights, probi
Tanzania in transition
Tanzania in transition: from Nyerere to Mkapa, edited by Kjell Havnevik and Aida Isinika, Dar es Salaam, Mkuki wa Nyota, 2010, 306 pp., £24.95, ISBN 9789987080861 Between Nyerere, the first preside
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