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Gender Contestations and the Implications for Inclusive Societies (2024)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2024). Gender Contestations and the Implications for Inclusive Societies. African Journal of sustainable Development, 14(1), 47-59

This paper examines contemporary debates on gender and the state in Africa as a contribution to debates that will inform the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future in September 2024. Specifically, this paper focuses on two intersecting questions. T... Read More about Gender Contestations and the Implications for Inclusive Societies.

Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work (2024)
Book Chapter
Okech, A. (2024). Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work. In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (1-16). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529691009

This case study proposes an expanded model of shadow research for collaborative field research. I draw on my experience on a collaborative pilot study on women associated with armed groups in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria. This case study draws on the... Read More about Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work.

‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture (2024)
Thesis
Falade, E. ‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis interrogates and examines how the sociality of the musicking of Black queer woman artists serves as a rich terrain to illuminate the politics of race, gender and sexuality within and beyond Black popular music. This study is orientated to... Read More about ‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture.

Chinese Funded Projects and Open Governance in Kenya (2022)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2022). Chinese Funded Projects and Open Governance in Kenya. The journal of leadership and developing societies, 6(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.47697/lds.35350022

This article examines how Kenyan civil society uses open governance to call for government accountability around debt acquisition from China. Through two case studies, I illustrate how strategic litigation has become a framework through which civil s... Read More about Chinese Funded Projects and Open Governance in Kenya.

Queer Movements and Disciplinary Laws in Africa (2022)
Book Chapter
Okech, A. (2022). Queer Movements and Disciplinary Laws in Africa. In S. Hotz, N. Kapferer, & M. Cottier (Eds.), Law on the Move: Technical, political, and social developments and theoretical challenges for legal gender studies (85-98). DIKE

Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2021). Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria. Africa development, 46(3), 1-19

This article draws on a qualitative study piloted in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria, to unpack the gender logics that shape why women join Boko Haram, their roles, how they are perceived by their communities on their return and how these dynamics inform... Read More about Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria.

Rite of Being: Gender and Bodily Autonomy in Manenberg (2021)
Book Chapter
Okech, A. (2021). Rite of Being: Gender and Bodily Autonomy in Manenberg. In A. Halligey, & S. Matchett (Eds.), Collaborative Conversations: Celebrating Twenty-One Years of The Mothertongue Project. Modjaji Books

Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A., Essof, S., & Carlsen, L. (2022). Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund. Economia Politica, 39(1), 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-021-00241-9

This article draws on the work of Just Associates (JASS), a feminist movement support organisation that strengthens the leadership and organising capacity of community-based women networks in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica, to trans... Read More about Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund.

Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2021). Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(4), 1013-1033. https://doi.org/10.1086/713299

What happens when misogyny leads to increasing murders of women, whose lives are considered not worthy because their respectability is under attack? What do feminists do in a global moment when antifeminist backlash emerges with fervor in politics, p... Read More about Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa.

COVID-19 responses and human rights in selected African countries (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A., Mwambari, D., & Olonisakin, '. (2021). COVID-19 responses and human rights in selected African countries. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26(3), 549-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2020.1813381

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need for states to strike a delicate balance between implementing measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, and respecting the rights and dignity of the populace. Human rights organisations warned that COVID-19... Read More about COVID-19 responses and human rights in selected African countries.

Global movement for Black lives: A conversation between Awino Okech and Shereen Essof (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A., & Essof, S. (2023). Global movement for Black lives: A conversation between Awino Okech and Shereen Essof. European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(1 supplt), 34S-42S. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506820978903

This conversation reflects on the importance of transnational Black solidarity in a global moment where the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural inequalities that sustain Black death and the global movement for Black lives has focussed attention... Read More about Global movement for Black lives: A conversation between Awino Okech and Shereen Essof.

Twenty Years of UNSC Resolution 1325 call for a Frank Forward Look (2020)
Digital Artefact
Olonisakin, '., & Okech, A. Twenty Years of UNSC Resolution 1325 call for a Frank Forward Look

Since the United Nations (UN) adopted UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in 2000 there have been significant shifts in discourse and practice on gender, peace and security. Twenty years later, conscious of... Read More about Twenty Years of UNSC Resolution 1325 call for a Frank Forward Look.

African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality (2020)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2020). African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality. Critical African Studies, 12(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2020.1810086

Decolonization as a pathway to transforming higher education institutions in the United Kingdom has led to quick fixes such as ‘diversity’ hires and reviewing syllabi thus sidestepping the fundamental structural deficits that demand these efforts. Th... Read More about African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality.

Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa (2020)
Book
Okech, A. (Ed.). Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4

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 ba... Read More about Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa.