When the Rains are (Un)Stopped
African Feminism(s) and Green Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15021846 |
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| Authors | Omotoso Omotoso (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 23 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ethicsenviro.24.2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W2987979984 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This work is a feminist focus on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for green democracy. It argues that at the root of Africa’s water crisis is Africa’s lull towards an inclusive harnessing of her traditional ecological knowledge and values for state re-engineering. Given the foregoing, exploring rain-making and rain-holding acts raise questions such as: what is the African ontology of rain-making or rain-holding? Who are rain-makers and rain-holders? Could their knowledge be publicly harnessed and politically institutionalized? For what purposes and at whose expense do they operate? By gendering the questions, women’s roles in rain-making and rain-holding processes links African feminism to TEK and green democracy, thus iterating that democratic societal discourses must engage structural support which transcends those sufficient for traditional liberal democracy. It suggests a different, yet complementary attitude of participation and interaction to prove that certain traditional practices in Africa are sustainable toward both the environment and human nature
Democracy · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern
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Nego‐Feminism
Meteorologists Meeting Rainmakers
Science as a Cultural Process
Green parties
Buddhist Rainmaking in Early Japan
Ecology and history
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Reflections on Two Sticks
When Rain Falls
Ritual
Rains gone bad, women gone mad
| Highly cited | No |
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