Gender, Justice, and the Environment

Connecting the Dots

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ID2431851
AuthorsJudith A Byfield (0000-0002-5080-4125, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume55
Issue1
Pages1-12
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/arw.2012.0017
OpenAlexW2104235980
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

In this paper I attempt to connect several dots, specifically my research on African women's activism, environmental justice, and climate change. The book on which I am currently working is tentatively entided "'The Great Upheaval': Women, Taxes and Nationalist Politics in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1945-1951." The study examines the struggles of Nigerian women to shape the nationalist agenda and their setbacks as the country moved decisively toward independence. At its core lies an analysis of a tax revolt launched by women in Abeokuta in 1947. The Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU), under the leadership of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (the mother of the late musician Fela Kuti), began a protracted protest against a tax increase. This revolt is well known in Nigerian popular history, and many people outside of Nigeria were introduced to it in Wole Soyinka's memoir,Ake: The Years of Childhood(1981:164-218

Democracy · Economic Justice · Independence (probability theory · Memoir · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Energy and Environment Impacts · Gender Studies · Law

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