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  • Gender, Discourse and Power in the Cameroonian Parliament

    2009, author(s)-editor(s) Lilian Lem Atanga
    This book investigates gender and power relations in the Cameroonian parliament using a critical discourse analytical approach, which focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. The study identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes (...)

  • Excision: Les jeunes changent l’Afrique par les TIC

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Joëlle Palmieri , Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla
    L’analyse de l’impact de 25 années d’actions engagées pour promouvoir l’abandon de l’excision (MGF) en Afrique de l’ouest francophone, doit tenir compte de la manière dont la révolution numérique y a contribué, et de la façon dont les jeunes – filles et garçons – y ont été associé-es. L’excision les concerne en tant que victimes, sujets, objets, acteurs, citoyens, responsables et parties prenantes familiaux et communautaires. Jeunes, TIC et MGF posent des questions de genre à intégrer dans une vision (...)

  • Message in a Mobile: Mixed-Messages, Tales of Missing and Mobile Communities at the University of Khartoum

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Siri Lamoureaux
    This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, distinguishes itself from other studies by taking a focused look at the linguistic content of mobile phone interactions via text-messaging, portraying it as a site for the expression of personalized and affective language. While men and women appear to be equally aggressive consumers and producers of text-message poetry, women are formally discouraged in using the (...)