Market men and station women: changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana
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Market men and station women : changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana. / Thiel, Alena; Stasik, Michael.
I: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Bind 34, Nr. 4, 01.10.2016, s. 459-478.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Market men and station women
T2 - changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana
AU - Thiel, Alena
AU - Stasik, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Institute of Social and Economic Research.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - It is impossible to understand the gendered relation between women and public space without taking into account its other, that is, male engagements with and in space. Our joint paper contrasts the public spaces of a market and a bus station in central Accra, Ghana. While the former is historically associated with female entrepreneurship, masculinity is deeply inscribed in the activities defining the latter. However, recent developments gradually undermine these gendered divides. By focusing on interpersonal claims to entrepreneurial places in the two locations, we illustrate how the configurations and co-constructions of gender and space are exposed to on-going, often subtle shifts, which are impelled by dialectically grounded transformations of quotidian spatial practices and social relations. Expanding upon the notion of viri–/uxorilocality, we explore shifts in the gendered strategies of newcomers establishing their presence in the two spaces and the extent to which these practices may alter gendered spatial significations.
AB - It is impossible to understand the gendered relation between women and public space without taking into account its other, that is, male engagements with and in space. Our joint paper contrasts the public spaces of a market and a bus station in central Accra, Ghana. While the former is historically associated with female entrepreneurship, masculinity is deeply inscribed in the activities defining the latter. However, recent developments gradually undermine these gendered divides. By focusing on interpersonal claims to entrepreneurial places in the two locations, we illustrate how the configurations and co-constructions of gender and space are exposed to on-going, often subtle shifts, which are impelled by dialectically grounded transformations of quotidian spatial practices and social relations. Expanding upon the notion of viri–/uxorilocality, we explore shifts in the gendered strategies of newcomers establishing their presence in the two spaces and the extent to which these practices may alter gendered spatial significations.
KW - Accra
KW - bus stations
KW - Gender
KW - Ghana
KW - markets
KW - place/space
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011600812&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02589001.2017.1281385
DO - 10.1080/02589001.2017.1281385
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85011600812
VL - 34
SP - 459
EP - 478
JO - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
JF - Journal of Contemporary African Studies
SN - 0258-9001
IS - 4
ER -
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