Kurzbeschreibung

"Sarah is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the growth of the global girls’ rights movement through a transnational network of actors centered in Nairobi and radiating out to places from New York City to Beijing. One of the project’s main arguments is that ideas about “girl power” arose in response to anxieties over growing rates of poverty due to the global economic collapse of the 1970s and Structural Adjustment Programs of the 1980s. Since the late 1970s, girls’ real and imagined sexual suffering has become emphasized in ways that have made the impacts of Structural Adjustment Programs and the global economic collapse appear to be the “natural” results of “African and Asian patriarchy” and a failure to fully utilize girls’ potential, rather than the effects, in part, of tangible economic policymaking and historical contingencies tracing back to colonialism and reinforced during times of economic crisis. This manuscript is based on two years of full-time oral and archival research, mostly in Nairobi but also in Paris, Washington D.C., and New York City. Sarah’s research was conducted in a mixture of Swahili, French, and English. She draws from sources from non-governmental organizations, international institutions, national governments, think tanks, e-mail list serves, poetry, and music."

Projektdetails

Projektart

Post-Doc-Projekt

Fachgruppe

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften

Finanzierung

Volkswagen Foundation

Einrichtung

Fachbereich/Zentralinstitut

Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

Institut/Seminar

Graduiertenkolleg Global Intellectual History

Projektteam

Leitung

Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Post-Doc)

Forschende

• Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Post-Doc)

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