Claire Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective
Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920–1963
This chapter attempts to control women's trading activities in Nairobi and Kiambu, the dominantly Kikuyu area immediately adjoining Nairobi to the north and northwest. Kikuyu women's trade stretches well back into the nineteenth century but was transformed by colonialism as new opportunities and imperatives encouraging trade presented themselves. The chapter concentrates on the period between 1920 and 1963, during which the scope of the women's t…
Trade, Gender, and Poverty in the Nairobi Area: Women’s Strategies for Survival and Independence in the 1980s
This chapter talks about Kikuyu and Kamba women traders in the Nairobi area and looks at the implications for women's status of market trade in the 1980s. Gender differences in access to critical resources play a key role in convincing women to trade. Among the barriers to better opportunities are access to education and property. Women's lack of education limits their ability to secure reasonably well-paid jobs. Dependency statistics illuminate …
Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
Cultural Materialism: Reflections on a Theoretical Odyssey from Africa to the West Indies
This article addresses how theory has shaped the author's choice of research topic and analysis as she takes her readers on a journey to Ghana, Kenya, North America, and Saint Lucia. Coming from the position of a reformed materialist feminist moving toward cultural materialism, the author examines how theory helped her empirical work or contributed to problems; she determines whether theory has helped her to see what scholars otherwise have ignor…
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890- 1990
Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. This book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and non-fiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focus…
Reply to Jean Davison and Kinuthia Macharia
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990
Based on extensive archival and oral research, Robertson's book offers a fascinating and previously untold story-that of women traders in central Kenya. Fundamental to the economic and social history of East Africa, women's trade both predated colonialism and outlasted it. Exploring the interlinkage of women's agricultural production and their trade, Robertson describes how, during the colonial period, central Kenyan women dominated the dried sta…
Gender and Trade Relations in Central Kenya in the Late Nineteenth Century
Les etudes sur les reseaux commerciaux de longue distance en Afrique sub-saharienne pendant les periodes precoloniale et coloniale evoquent la participation des femmes generalement en tant qu'esclaves. Pourtant les femmes ont toujours joue un role fondamental dans les activites commerciales. Dans cet article, l'A. se propose d'analyser les sources historiques sur le commerce precolonial dans la region de Nairobi a la fin du XIX e siecle en inclua…
Grassroots in Kenya: Women, Genital Mutilation, and Collective Action, 1920-1990
Traders and Urban Struggle: Ideology and the Creation of a Militant Female Underclass in Nairobi, 1960-1990
Traders and Urban Struggle: Ideology and the Creation of a Militant Female Underclass in Nairobi, 1960-1990 Claire Robertson The "struggle for the city" is determined at base by economics, but it is also gendered, which has real economic consequences for the participants . The conditions under which the struggle takes place determine its gendered aspects and the priority placed upon gender within it. As Johanna Lessinger has pointed out, markets …
The Perils of Autonomy
The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement.-Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history,…
Women and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives
Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce
Never underestimate the power of women
Research on African Women since 1972: A Commentary
Ester Boserup, Claire Robertson, Margaret Snyder, Margaret Strobel, Research on African Women since 1972: A Commentary, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: Current Research on African Women (1988), pp. 427-430
African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890- 1990
Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. This book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and non-fiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focus…
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra Ghana
Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community
Gender and Trade Relations in Central Kenya in the Late Nineteenth Century
Les etudes sur les reseaux commerciaux de longue distance en Afrique sub-saharienne pendant les periodes precoloniale et coloniale evoquent la participation des femmes generalement en tant qu'esclaves. Pourtant les femmes ont toujours joue un role fondamental dans les activites commerciales. Dans cet article, l'A. se propose d'analyser les sources historiques sur le commerce precolonial dans la region de Nairobi a la fin du XIX e siecle en inclua…
The Nature and Effects of Differential Access to Education in Ga Society
Opening ParagraphWhat happens when women are denied access, over a long period of time, to formal education of the type men are given? This paper is a preliminary examination of the effects on Central Accra Ga society of this process, which began in a significant form in the nineteenth century. It posits a detrimental effect, not only on the women but also on the whole society, and on the relation between the sexes, of the systematic channelling …
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990
Developing Economic Awareness: Changing Perspectives in Studies of African Women, 1976-1985
Since 1976, the evolution of African women's history has impacted on other social sciences. The dominant trend among scholars has been to economize social and political relationships in rethinking precolonial, colonial, and postindependence African women's history. Primarily, this has been done in a Marxist framework, with some necessary redefinition of categories. The substantive findings illustrate a common chronology for African women's histor…
Economic Woman in Africa: Profit-Making Techniques of Aecra Market Women
An idea which has recently gained acceptance is that peasant cultivators do in fact act in an economically 'rational' manner to maximise profits. It can be shown that 'rational' economic behaviour is characteristic of traders also. But not all the shibboleths associated with beliefs to the contrary have been swept away. In a well-known textbook on economic development Everett Hagen stated that, in order to make the shift from 'bazaar' to 'fixed- …
Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990
African Urban Kinsmen: The Ga of Central Accra
Traders and Urban Struggle: Ideology and the Creation of a Militant Female Underclass in Nairobi, 1960-1990
Traders and Urban Struggle: Ideology and the Creation of a Militant Female Underclass in Nairobi, 1960-1990 Claire Robertson The "struggle for the city" is determined at base by economics, but it is also gendered, which has real economic consequences for the participants . The conditions under which the struggle takes place determine its gendered aspects and the priority placed upon gender within it. As Johanna Lessinger has pointed out, markets …
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
Women and Slavery in Africa
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socio-Economic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
Women, Power and Economic Change: The Nandi of Kenya
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
Never underestimate the power of women
Women and Slavery in Africa
Women and Slavery in Africa
Women and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives
Women Leaders in African History
In Pursuit of Life Histories: The Problem of Bias
Before beginning a critical look at the process of collecting life histories I need to give a definition of a life history and say a few words in promotion of their use. A life history, as I am using the term here, is a type of oral history embodying the story of a person's life constructed by a researcher from the informant's oral account. If the goal of oral history, or oral traditions, is often to establish what really happened by collecting a…
African Cities and Towns before the European Conquest
The book dispels the stereotypical view of Africans living in simple, primitive, look-alike agglomerations, scattered about without any appreciation for planning and design
Economic Woman in Africa: Profit-Making Techniques of Aecra Market Women
An idea which has recently gained acceptance is that peasant cultivators do in fact act in an economically 'rational' manner to maximise profits. It can be shown that 'rational' economic behaviour is characteristic of traders also. But not all the shibboleths associated with beliefs to the contrary have been swept away. In a well-known textbook on economic development Everett Hagen stated that, in order to make the shift from 'bazaar' to 'fixed- …
African Cities and Towns before the European Conquest
The book dispels the stereotypical view of Africans living in simple, primitive, look-alike agglomerations, scattered about without any appreciation for planning and design
African Urban Kinsmen: The Ga of Central Accra
The Nature and Effects of Differential Access to Education in Ga Society
Opening ParagraphWhat happens when women are denied access, over a long period of time, to formal education of the type men are given? This paper is a preliminary examination of the effects on Central Accra Ga society of this process, which began in a significant form in the nineteenth century. It posits a detrimental effect, not only on the women but also on the whole society, and on the relation between the sexes, of the systematic channelling …
Women and World Development
Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966
Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa
List of maps, figures, and tables Preface Introduction: exploding cities in poverty-stricken countries 1. Empires and trade 2. Urbanization and economic development 3. Rural-urban migration 4. Townsman and absentee villager 5. Social relationships in the urban setting 6. Three types of change 7. The family: continuity and change 8. Changes in the position of women 9. Stratification and social mobility Conclusion: the incorporation of the West Afr…
The Labouring Poor and Urban Class Formation: The Case of Greater Accra
Women and Work in Africa
The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies
L'article présente certains résultats d'une recherche conduite en 1971–1972 et 1977–1978 au Ghana auprès de petites commerçantes des marchés urbains. L'auteur en tire quelques conclusions pratiques à implication politique. Les petites commerçantes assurent au Ghana entre 70% et 80% du commerce de détail dans le contexte d'une économie au bord de la faillite depuis la chute de Nkrumah en 1966. Tous le régime de celui-ci les réserves financières co…
In Pursuit of Life Histories: The Problem of Bias
Before beginning a critical look at the process of collecting life histories I need to give a definition of a life history and say a few words in promotion of their use. A life history, as I am using the term here, is a type of oral history embodying the story of a person's life constructed by a researcher from the informant's oral account. If the goal of oral history, or oral traditions, is often to establish what really happened by collecting a…
Health in Colonial Ghana: Disease, Medicine, and Socio-Economic Change, 1900-1955
African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives
Women and Slavery in Africa
Women and Slavery in Africa
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra Ghana
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
Response to John Campbell
Women and Slavery in Africa
Women and Slavery in Africa
Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socio-Economic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
Women, Power and Economic Change: The Nandi of Kenya
Women Leaders in African History
Women and Slavery in Africa
Women and Class in Africa: A Review
Political science (45 works) · Sociology (34 works) · African history and culture studies (32 works) · Geography (29 works) · History (19 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · History (13 works) · Law (12 works)