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Women in Trade Unions and Health NGOs in Botswana: An Anthropological Study

Project details

Principal investigator: Professor Pnina Werbner
Project abstract:
Women in Trade Unions and Health NGOs in Botswana: An Anthropological Study| (PDF)

Report on ESRC website|

Project outputs

Werbner, Pnina 'Appropriating Social Citizenship:  Women's Labour, Poverty and entrepreneurship in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana in Journal of South African Studies, 36:3, September 2010

Publications in progress:

  • 'The Hidden Lion: Tswapong women's initiation cult and the achievement of dignity in Botswana at a time of AIDS'
  • 'Singing their Way into the Public Sphere: Solidarity, Conflict and Class Struggle in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana'
  • Book on The Making of an African Working Class: civil society, nation building and redemptive labour in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana

Also articles on:

  • Legal Pluralism and Feminism in Botswana: contradictions and dilemmas
  • The Aids Industry in Botswana: grassroots mobilisation and the challenges for NGOs
  • The Case of the Offensive Red Beret: gender, Manual Workers Trade Union leadership and the state in Botswana

Dissemination to Target Audience:

  • 'Dialogical Subjectivities for Hard Times: Expanding political and ethical imaginaries of elite and subaltern Southern African and South Asian women'. Keynote Address, Conference on 'Self and Subject: African and Asian Perspectives' OU Ferguson Centre, Edinburgh, 2005.
  • Also presented at a Bristol seminar on postcolonialism.

Project photos

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Contact details

Professor Pnina Werbner
Sociology
School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work
Keele University
Staffs
ST5 5BG
email: P.Werbner@keele.ac.uk| 

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