Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa

Abstract

This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge the ballot box as the only legitimate means of ensuring freedom. Drawing on case studies from seven African countries, the contributors focus on specific political moments in their respective countries to offer insights into how the state/society social contract is contested through informal channels, and how political power functions to counteract citizen’s voices. These contributions offer a different way of thinking about state-building and structural change that goes beyond the system-based approaches that dominate scholarship on democratization and political structures. In effect, it provides a basis for organizers and social movements to consider how to build solidarity beyond influencing government institutions.

Citation

Okech, A. (Ed.). Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Jul 6, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 10, 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Gender, Development and Social Change
• Series ISSN: 2730-7328
• ISBN: 9783030463434
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4