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Author:   Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla ,  Joelle Palmieri ,  Mamsait Jagne
Publisher:   Pambazuka Press
Imprint:   Pambazuka Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.143kg
ISBN:  

9780857490315

ISBN 10:   0857490311
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   17 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction 1. FGM: broadening the viewpoints Viewpoints Protagonists, policies and strategies What kind of debate, between the unspoken and the unspeakable? Impacts: mixed results 2. Clarifying the issues Identifying the biases Reviewing the concepts African information society: obstacles, risks and benefits 3. A cross-cutting, participatory and reflexive methodology The research project Targets, beneficiaries, partners, actors From wait-and-see to participation Gendered methodologies ICTs: Youths on the frontline 4. The necessary transdisciplinary approach FGM, a citizenship issue Eradicating FGM: the gender dialogue West African citizenship measured with the yardstick of FGM Youths: growing into actors ICTs : tomorrow is now How to change? 5. Innovating: politicising the private and including the masculine Innovating as a research requirement A citizenship governance of both public and private A gendered approach versus blindness to virilism 6. Conclusions and recommendations Politicising the concept of citizenship in Francophone West Africa Making the invisible visible in gender, intergenerational and transnational relations Building capacities in gender and citizenship Reflexivity and politics: some ideas worth exploring Annexes Bibliography Webliography Index

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Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla is a researcher at ENDA (Dakar, Senegal), and has published on women, gender, excision and information and communication technologies in Francophone West Africa. JoA lle Palmieri is a political sciences researcher, gender expert and communications consultant and is writing a thesis on the political uses of ICTs by women in Africa.

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