Lyn Ossome
Biographic Data
| ID | 135188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyn Ossome |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Ossome |
| SIGNATURE | OSSOME L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8255-8742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa
Gender inequalities feature in the prevailing model of financialised capitalist development, which in the peripheries is increasingly dependent on enclosures of land and nature, unbridled debt that is being shifted onto households, and deepening exploitation of gendered labour for service and industry. These conditions of accumulation generate reproductive crises in the core and peripheries that have serious implications for the survival and sust…
Gender and development in the agrarian south
The social reproduction of agrarian change
The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of 'social reproduction'. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage-point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boundaries of processes and subjects analysed in political economy. Contributing to this research agenda, the special issue we present in this Introduction explores the Social Reproduction of Agrarian Cha…
Third World feminist agrarian struggles and the colonial question for transnational feminist solidarity
Third World agrarian feminists have, through debates and struggles over the course of at least nine decades, explored the meanings of liberation – directly through involvement in land and agrarian struggles, and indirectly through solidarity with movements against raising other related social justice questions. The link between feminist agrarian movements and the broader movements is partly based on a common historical concern with gender as a co…
Introduction
The contemporary period of a raging global pandemic has reasserted the significance of land and landed resources as the basis for social reproduction in agrarian societies. Due to coronavirus disease 2019, millions of poor and working-class households everywhere and especially in the Third World are faced with the question of survival: that is, how to meet their minimum daily consumption needs in the absence of adequate state support and wages. T…
African Women’s Formal and Informal Labor
Land in transition
Ifi Amadiume's seminal work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands developed significant insights into the relationship between gender, wealth and power, and anticipated the centrality of gendered labour processes in the survival of the family/household by highlighting the articulation between reproductive labour and the productive economy. In this epoch when various postcolonial states are grappling anew with land and agrarian questions, Amadiume's de…
The care economy and the state in Africa’s Covid-19 responses
The responses of many low- and middle-income households to Covid-19 in Africa were mediated by the state through various means including direct cash transfers, food distribution, and distribution of rural agricultural produce to urban areas, in response to the social reproduction crisis that the pandemic precipitated. Taking the relationship between the state and household as its focus, this article reflects on the social and political questions …
Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe
The Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe effected changes in the racial, class, and gender structure of land ownership. However, while changes in the racial and class structure have been well explored in existing literature, their articulation to gender in the agrarian structure is not yet well understood. This is because the literature has mainly accounted for gender in relation to the formal redistribution of land to women through…
Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance
In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender, ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly important concern for feminist agrarian theorizations. In contribution to these debates, this article e…
African Women’s Formal and Informal Labor
Myths of development
What explains political stability despite the perniciousness of structural reforms under neoliberalism in some countries in Africa? In Uganda, for instance, a paradoxical relationship has historically existed between state repression and the country’s relative political stability. I argue in this chapter that contrary to the developmentalist explanations that pervade neoliberal scholarship, the political stabilisation of successive colonial and p…
Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women's Labour in India
Using a social reproduction framework, this article explores how reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to capitalist production in India. Our analysis of the conditions in India reveals that the interaction of three institutions-market, state and household-has imposed the burden of reproduction on women. In turn, women's work is dependent on private and common lands. This link, between the role of women's unpaid labour i…
Can the Law Secure Women's Rights to Land in Africa? Revisiting Tensions Between Culture and Land Commercialization
This contribution is concerned with the challenges of securing women's rights to land in Africa in the context of contemporary land deals through a discussion of three distinct but interrelated problems in the framing of women's land rights discourses. First, this study discusses the interface between rights and “custom” to highlight the inherent distortions of African customary law. Second, it argues that liberal formulations of the law are limi…
Feminism in the African Media
Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women's Labour in India
Using a social reproduction framework, this article explores how reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to capitalist production in India. Our analysis of the conditions in India reveals that the interaction of three institutions-market, state and household-has imposed the burden of reproduction on women. In turn, women's work is dependent on private and common lands. This link, between the role of women's unpaid labour i…
The social reproduction of agrarian change
The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of 'social reproduction'. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage-point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boundaries of processes and subjects analysed in political economy. Contributing to this research agenda, the special issue we present in this Introduction explores the Social Reproduction of Agrarian Cha…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Can the Law Secure Women's Rights to Land in Africa? Revisiting Tensions Between Culture and Land Commercialization
This contribution is concerned with the challenges of securing women's rights to land in Africa in the context of contemporary land deals through a discussion of three distinct but interrelated problems in the framing of women's land rights discourses. First, this study discusses the interface between rights and “custom” to highlight the inherent distortions of African customary law. Second, it argues that liberal formulations of the law are limi…
The care economy and the state in Africa’s Covid-19 responses
The responses of many low- and middle-income households to Covid-19 in Africa were mediated by the state through various means including direct cash transfers, food distribution, and distribution of rural agricultural produce to urban areas, in response to the social reproduction crisis that the pandemic precipitated. Taking the relationship between the state and household as its focus, this article reflects on the social and political questions …
Land in transition
Ifi Amadiume's seminal work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands developed significant insights into the relationship between gender, wealth and power, and anticipated the centrality of gendered labour processes in the survival of the family/household by highlighting the articulation between reproductive labour and the productive economy. In this epoch when various postcolonial states are grappling anew with land and agrarian questions, Amadiume's de…
Introduction
The contemporary period of a raging global pandemic has reasserted the significance of land and landed resources as the basis for social reproduction in agrarian societies. Due to coronavirus disease 2019, millions of poor and working-class households everywhere and especially in the Third World are faced with the question of survival: that is, how to meet their minimum daily consumption needs in the absence of adequate state support and wages. T…
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa
Gender inequalities feature in the prevailing model of financialised capitalist development, which in the peripheries is increasingly dependent on enclosures of land and nature, unbridled debt that is being shifted onto households, and deepening exploitation of gendered labour for service and industry. These conditions of accumulation generate reproductive crises in the core and peripheries that have serious implications for the survival and sust…
Gender and development in the agrarian south
Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe
The Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe effected changes in the racial, class, and gender structure of land ownership. However, while changes in the racial and class structure have been well explored in existing literature, their articulation to gender in the agrarian structure is not yet well understood. This is because the literature has mainly accounted for gender in relation to the formal redistribution of land to women through…
Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance
In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender, ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly important concern for feminist agrarian theorizations. In contribution to these debates, this article e…
Feminism in the African Media
Can the Law Secure Women's Rights to Land in Africa? Revisiting Tensions Between Culture and Land Commercialization
This contribution is concerned with the challenges of securing women's rights to land in Africa in the context of contemporary land deals through a discussion of three distinct but interrelated problems in the framing of women's land rights discourses. First, this study discusses the interface between rights and “custom” to highlight the inherent distortions of African customary law. Second, it argues that liberal formulations of the law are limi…
Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women's Labour in India
Using a social reproduction framework, this article explores how reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to capitalist production in India. Our analysis of the conditions in India reveals that the interaction of three institutions-market, state and household-has imposed the burden of reproduction on women. In turn, women's work is dependent on private and common lands. This link, between the role of women's unpaid labour i…
Myths of development
What explains political stability despite the perniciousness of structural reforms under neoliberalism in some countries in Africa? In Uganda, for instance, a paradoxical relationship has historically existed between state repression and the country’s relative political stability. I argue in this chapter that contrary to the developmentalist explanations that pervade neoliberal scholarship, the political stabilisation of successive colonial and p…
African Women’s Formal and Informal Labor
African Women’s Formal and Informal Labor
Land in transition
Ifi Amadiume's seminal work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands developed significant insights into the relationship between gender, wealth and power, and anticipated the centrality of gendered labour processes in the survival of the family/household by highlighting the articulation between reproductive labour and the productive economy. In this epoch when various postcolonial states are grappling anew with land and agrarian questions, Amadiume's de…
The care economy and the state in Africa’s Covid-19 responses
The responses of many low- and middle-income households to Covid-19 in Africa were mediated by the state through various means including direct cash transfers, food distribution, and distribution of rural agricultural produce to urban areas, in response to the social reproduction crisis that the pandemic precipitated. Taking the relationship between the state and household as its focus, this article reflects on the social and political questions …
Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe
The Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe effected changes in the racial, class, and gender structure of land ownership. However, while changes in the racial and class structure have been well explored in existing literature, their articulation to gender in the agrarian structure is not yet well understood. This is because the literature has mainly accounted for gender in relation to the formal redistribution of land to women through…
Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance
In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender, ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly important concern for feminist agrarian theorizations. In contribution to these debates, this article e…
Third World feminist agrarian struggles and the colonial question for transnational feminist solidarity
Third World agrarian feminists have, through debates and struggles over the course of at least nine decades, explored the meanings of liberation – directly through involvement in land and agrarian struggles, and indirectly through solidarity with movements against raising other related social justice questions. The link between feminist agrarian movements and the broader movements is partly based on a common historical concern with gender as a co…
Introduction
The contemporary period of a raging global pandemic has reasserted the significance of land and landed resources as the basis for social reproduction in agrarian societies. Due to coronavirus disease 2019, millions of poor and working-class households everywhere and especially in the Third World are faced with the question of survival: that is, how to meet their minimum daily consumption needs in the absence of adequate state support and wages. T…
Imperialism and crises of social reproduction in Africa
Gender inequalities feature in the prevailing model of financialised capitalist development, which in the peripheries is increasingly dependent on enclosures of land and nature, unbridled debt that is being shifted onto households, and deepening exploitation of gendered labour for service and industry. These conditions of accumulation generate reproductive crises in the core and peripheries that have serious implications for the survival and sust…
Gender and development in the agrarian south
The social reproduction of agrarian change
The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of 'social reproduction'. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage-point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boundaries of processes and subjects analysed in political economy. Contributing to this research agenda, the special issue we present in this Introduction explores the Social Reproduction of Agrarian Cha…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Agrarian society (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (7 works)