2024/10/22 by Xianan Jin · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Agency (philosophy) #Criminology #Genocide #Geography #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Land grabbing #Law #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Political Conflict and Governance #Political economy #Political science #Political violence #Politics #Social science #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
published in The Journal of Peasant Studies 52(4), 787-809 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2024/10/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agency in the community, market, and state. It argues, based on interviews with Rwandan women, that after the genocide elite women with access to land obtained opportunities to participate in collective political activities that were denied to landless women who were more preoccupied with their daily struggles to survive. It calls for an intersectional examination of class within the continuum of violence against women in the aftermath of conflicts.