Norita Mdege
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norita Mdege |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mdege |
| SIGNATURE | MDEGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6737-3782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Challenging gender norms and taboos
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny
With social media technologies, feminist perspectives have reachedparts of society traditionally uninterested in or fundamentallyopposed to them. While feminist activists and allies have employedtechnological affordances for support, belonging, and justice, thesame tools are used by actors of the alt-right to gag feminist voices.As it circulates, anti-feminist content sustains heteropatriarchy anddamages women beyond the symbolic by means of trol…
Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on ficti…
Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness
Using qualitative data collected in Gulu and Omoro districts, Northern Uganda, this paper discusses factors influencing youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness in a post-conflict environment. The purpose is to understand the factors in order to promote young people’s participation in sweetpotato and other agricultural value chains. Thirteen young women and eleven young men were interviewed in individual in-depth interviews. Ad…
Your husbands are bringing it to you’
The ways in which rural women living with and/or affected by HIV are portrayed in films can potentially influence how social transformation is imagined, including the extent to which the women can be involved in problem-solving processes. This is because, in addition to conceptualising the problem, such representations often place women in a certain position in relation to, or within, the problematic situation, which in turn influences how soluti…
The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi
Based on qualitative research conducted in Chikwawa and Phalombe in Malawi, this article discusses how gender relations shape men and women’s access to and participation in agricultural training. It also examines how men and women justify or challenge gender inequalities in relation to access to agricultural information and knowledge. Data on gender and recruitment to and participation in training, barriers to training and access to information a…
Representations of Women’s Agency in African Anti-colonial Struggles
Films made during African nationalist struggles and which explore African women’s experiences in these conflicts, such as Sambizanga (dir. Sarah Maldoror 1972) and Mapantsula (dir. Oliver Schmitz 1988), often reflect the dominant patriarchal views regarding women’s “place” in society. Sambizanga, set in Angola, and Mapantsula, set in South Africa, create gendered experiences in which women, to varying degrees, occupy less privileged positions tha…
The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi
Based on qualitative research conducted in Chikwawa and Phalombe in Malawi, this article discusses how gender relations shape men and women’s access to and participation in agricultural training. It also examines how men and women justify or challenge gender inequalities in relation to access to agricultural information and knowledge. Data on gender and recruitment to and participation in training, barriers to training and access to information a…
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny
With social media technologies, feminist perspectives have reachedparts of society traditionally uninterested in or fundamentallyopposed to them. While feminist activists and allies have employedtechnological affordances for support, belonging, and justice, thesame tools are used by actors of the alt-right to gag feminist voices.As it circulates, anti-feminist content sustains heteropatriarchy anddamages women beyond the symbolic by means of trol…
Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on ficti…
Representations of Women’s Agency in African Anti-colonial Struggles
Films made during African nationalist struggles and which explore African women’s experiences in these conflicts, such as Sambizanga (dir. Sarah Maldoror 1972) and Mapantsula (dir. Oliver Schmitz 1988), often reflect the dominant patriarchal views regarding women’s “place” in society. Sambizanga, set in Angola, and Mapantsula, set in South Africa, create gendered experiences in which women, to varying degrees, occupy less privileged positions tha…
The role of gender norms in access to agricultural training in Chikwawa and Phalombe, Malawi
Based on qualitative research conducted in Chikwawa and Phalombe in Malawi, this article discusses how gender relations shape men and women’s access to and participation in agricultural training. It also examines how men and women justify or challenge gender inequalities in relation to access to agricultural information and knowledge. Data on gender and recruitment to and participation in training, barriers to training and access to information a…
Representations of Women’s Agency in African Anti-colonial Struggles
Films made during African nationalist struggles and which explore African women’s experiences in these conflicts, such as Sambizanga (dir. Sarah Maldoror 1972) and Mapantsula (dir. Oliver Schmitz 1988), often reflect the dominant patriarchal views regarding women’s “place” in society. Sambizanga, set in Angola, and Mapantsula, set in South Africa, create gendered experiences in which women, to varying degrees, occupy less privileged positions tha…
Your husbands are bringing it to you’
The ways in which rural women living with and/or affected by HIV are portrayed in films can potentially influence how social transformation is imagined, including the extent to which the women can be involved in problem-solving processes. This is because, in addition to conceptualising the problem, such representations often place women in a certain position in relation to, or within, the problematic situation, which in turn influences how soluti…
Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness
Using qualitative data collected in Gulu and Omoro districts, Northern Uganda, this paper discusses factors influencing youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness in a post-conflict environment. The purpose is to understand the factors in order to promote young people’s participation in sweetpotato and other agricultural value chains. Thirteen young women and eleven young men were interviewed in individual in-depth interviews. Ad…
Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on ficti…
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny
With social media technologies, feminist perspectives have reachedparts of society traditionally uninterested in or fundamentallyopposed to them. While feminist activists and allies have employedtechnological affordances for support, belonging, and justice, thesame tools are used by actors of the alt-right to gag feminist voices.As it circulates, anti-feminist content sustains heteropatriarchy anddamages women beyond the symbolic by means of trol…
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies
Challenging gender norms and taboos
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)