Carol E Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 91445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol E Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol E |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8403-6358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content
Recent studies have documented the type of content that is most likely to spread widely, or go “viral,” on social media, yet little is known about people’s perceptions of what goes viral or what should go viral. This is critical to understand because there is widespread debate about how to improve or regulate social media algorithms. We recruited a sample of participants that is nationally representative of the U.S. population (according to age, …
Negativity drives online news consumption
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N = 22,743). Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories fro…
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
Art History in the Age of Bellori. Scholarship and cultural politics in seventeenth-century Rome
Art History in the Age of Bellori. Scholarship and cultural politics in seventeenth‐century Rome JanisBellThomasWillette CambridgeCambridge University Press 2002396£65 0‐521‐7824‐8
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
Contents List of Illustrations Glossary and Currency Introduction Chapter I Am Berida Ndambuki Chapter 2 No woman can know what will happen to her in marriage Marriage, Children and Survival Chapter 3 Now was in business Work: From Kathonzweni to Nairobi Chapter 4 The Akamba are a peaceloving people Ethnicity, Religion and Politics Chapter 5 I ask myself, why did have my children? Life and Death Postscript: Our Relations: On Friendship and Cross?…
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
Musical Repercussions of 1492: Encounters in Text and Performance
Musical Repercussions of 1492: Encounters in Text and Performance
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
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…
Negativity drives online news consumption
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N = 22,743). Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories fro…
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…
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
Responses to Feld and Roseman
main things I learned from our panel on qualitative comparison of music classless societies were (1) the truth of Diamond's assertion that in primitive societies the superstructure is not reducible to the economic base; that reductive process begins with the exploitative economic relations of civilization (1974:140-41); and (2) Feld's statements that For any given society, everything that is socially salient will not necessarily be musically mark…
Pulling the Ancestors: Performance Practice and Praxis in Mapuche Ordering
The observations, descriptions, and analyses exposed herein address Mapuche philosophies of time, thought, growth, and transformation. In a broader and equally ambitious sense, my concerns embrace questions of performance practice, the cognitive ramifications of musical communication, and the abstractions of one ethnomusicologist juxtaposed to the abstractions of several hundred Mapuche (a people of Andean Argentina).1 Various kinds of data are p…
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 …
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
A Reappraisal of Social Mobility in Britain
Social Mobility in Britain has been a key work for theories of mobility and social stratification, but its basic data on the occupation of fathers and sons is open to question. Arguing from evidence (mainly from the Census) about occupational transition and differential fertility, this paper suggests that the 1949 study appears to have an implausible number of middle-class fathers. When this critique is related to the peculiarities of the data al…
Women and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives
The Mahu of Hawai'i
Women Leaders in African History
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
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 Urban Kinsmen: The Ga of Central Accra
A Reappraisal of Social Mobility in Britain
Social Mobility in Britain has been a key work for theories of mobility and social stratification, but its basic data on the occupation of fathers and sons is open to question. Arguing from evidence (mainly from the Census) about occupational transition and differential fertility, this paper suggests that the 1949 study appears to have an implausible number of middle-class fathers. When this critique is related to the peculiarities of the data al…
Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966
Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy
The Labouring Poor and Urban Class Formation: The Case of Greater Accra
Pulling the Ancestors: Performance Practice and Praxis in Mapuche Ordering
The observations, descriptions, and analyses exposed herein address Mapuche philosophies of time, thought, growth, and transformation. In a broader and equally ambitious sense, my concerns embrace questions of performance practice, the cognitive ramifications of musical communication, and the abstractions of one ethnomusicologist juxtaposed to the abstractions of several hundred Mapuche (a people of Andean Argentina).1 Various kinds of data are p…
Musica tradicional de La Rioja
The Psychology of Music
Anthology of Central and South American Indian Music
Books/Livres
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
Responses to Feld and Roseman
main things I learned from our panel on qualitative comparison of music classless societies were (1) the truth of Diamond's assertion that in primitive societies the superstructure is not reducible to the economic base; that reductive process begins with the exploitative economic relations of civilization (1974:140-41); and (2) Feld's statements that For any given society, everything that is socially salient will not necessarily be musically mark…
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 Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
Women and Slavery in Africa
Political science (43 works) · Sociology (37 works) · African history and culture studies (33 works) · Geography (26 works) · History (22 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Socioeconomics (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Art (10 works)