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Embodied Engineering

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

By: Laura Ann Twagira

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Embodied Engineering

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

By: Laura Ann Twagira

Foregrounding African women’s ingenuity and labor, this pioneering case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule. By advocating for an understanding of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the persistent image of African women as subjects without technological knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also significantly expands the scope of African science and technology studies. Using the Office du Niger agricultural project as a case study, Twagira argues that women used modest technologies (such as a mortar and pestle or metal pots) and organized female labor to create, maintain, and reengineer a complex and highly adaptive food production system. While women often incorporated labor-saving technologies into their work routines, they did not view their own physical labor as the problem it is so often framed to be in development narratives. Rather, women’s embodied techniques and knowledge were central to their ability to transform a development project centered on export production into an environmental resource that addressed local taste and consumption needs.

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Ohio University Press

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Embodied Engineering

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

By: Laura Ann Twagira

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Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

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The New African Diaspora in Vancouver

Migration, Exclusion, and Belonging

By: Gillian Laura Creese

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The New African Diaspora in Vancouver

Migration, Exclusion, and Belonging

By: Gillian Laura Creese

The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'African community.' In this study, Gillian Creese analyzes interviews with sixty-one women and men from twenty-one African countries to document the gendered and racialized processes of community-building that occur in the contexts of marginalization and exclusion as they exist in Vancouver. Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobility for immigrants. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442642955

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Embodied Engineering

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