Multiscalar gendered temporalities in southeastern African history: Oral voices, lived and inherited pasts, and the deep testimony of time in language
Description of the granted funding
My project aims at rethinking change and continuity in the gendered histories of power in Africa from the present to the distant past. It is concerned with writing gendered histories beyond the chronologies and linear sequences that structure and limit our current understanding. Combining research on oral history and word histories, I study the relation between individual lived time and the longterm and large-scale time of conceptual history. My focus will be specifically on the deeper gendered histories of power in present-day Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania in southeastern Africa. This project proposes that examining different timescales side by side allows for more complex narratives about gender and power in African pasts and presents.
Show moreStarting year
2023
End year
2027
Granted funding
Funder
Research Council of Finland
Funding instrument
Academy research fellows
Decision maker
Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
10.05.2023
10.05.2023
Other information
Funding decision number
355012
Fields of science
Other social sciences
Research fields
Nais- ja sukupuolentutkimus
Identified topics
gender, feminism