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"Ce recueil d'entretiens est conçu comme une série de conversations avec une vingtaine d'activistes, universitaires féministes en majorité d'Afrique et de sa diaspora. Ces dialogues, conçus dans le but de décentrer la production de connaissance sur les féminismes en Afrique dans une perspective décoloniale, portent sur leurs pratiques, philosophies, aspirations, défis et joies féministes. Il en ressort des interviews qui, au fur et à mesure qu'elles se disent, esquissent une mosaïque fascinante de jeunes hommes et de femmes aux profils, âge, genre, orientation sexuelle, classe, nationalité et parcours professionnels certes variés, mais unis par la passion d'une Afrique où règne davantage d'équité et de justice sociale !"--Page 4 de la couverture.

Malgré le lien direct entre le changement climatique et la pratique du travail social, l'implication des travailleurs sociaux dans la résolution des problèmes liés au changement climatique reste décourageante. Cela est attribué au manque d'exposition aux questions de changement climatique pendant la formation des travailleurs sociaux, ce qui conduit à un manque d'outils adéquats pour que les travailleurs sociaux intègrent les questions de changement climatique dans leurs interventions quotidiennes avec les clients. Cet article vise à fournir des lignes directrices pour la pratique du travail social en intégrant la participation des femmes rurales dans le discours sur le changement climatique. Les travailleurs sociaux et les femmes rurales sont absents des interventions sur le changement climatique aux niveaux professionnel, pratique et personnel. Les impacts précaires du changement climatique se manifestent par des inondations, des sécheresses, des pénuries d'eau, l'épuisement des ressources naturelles, des cyclones et des vagues de chaleur, affectent de manière disproportionnée les femmes, en particulier celles des communautés rurales. La vulnérabilité des femmes au changement climatique émane de l'exclusion dans les processus de prise de décision sur le changement climatique, des normes et modèles culturels qui les confinent aux responsabilités ménagères, du manque de capacité d'adaptation, des faibles niveaux d'alphabétisation, de la domination patriarcale et des niveaux élevés de pauvreté. Les travailleurs sociaux sont donc appelés à favoriser le changement social, en donnant aux femmes les moyens de participer aux discussions sur le changement climatique comme les hommes. Un modèle basé sur les expériences menées en Afrique australe est présenté pour fournir des orientations aux travailleurs sociaux sur la meilleure façon d’intégrer les dimensions de genre dans les interventions sur le changement climatique. Cela favoriserait la justice sociale et environnementale, la résilience sociale, la participation égale au débat sur le changement climatique, le renforcement des capacités et la capacité d’adaptation des femmes rurales.

In low-income and middle-income countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, the COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial implications for women’s wellbeing. Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities. This Viewpoint is based on collective reflections from research done by the authors on COVID-19 responses by international and regional organisations, and national governments, in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa between June, 2020, and June, 2021. A range of international and regional actors have made important policy recommendations to address the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s health and wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. However, national-level policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been partial and inconsistent with regards to gender in both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, largely failing to recognise the multiple drivers of gendered health inequalities. This Viewpoint proposes that addressing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in low-income and middle-income countries should adopt a systems thinking approach and be informed by the question of who is affected as opposed to who is infected. In adopting the systems thinking approach, responses will be more able to recognise and address the direct gendered effects of the pandemic and those that emerge indirectly through a combination of long-standing structural inequalities and gendered responses to the pandemic.

L’article problématise la circulation de l’« identité homosexuelle » dans l’entre-deux de l’Occident et de l’Afrique. À partir de l’exemple camerounais, il montre comment des « tensions postcoloniales » parasitent le débat autour de l’homosexualité en se cristallisant notamment sur l’affrontement symbolique entre ordres moraux opposés. Au-delà des identifications sexuelles, l’analyse aborde aussi la situation des individus qui tentent par la migration d’échapper au régime de contrainte camerounais et se retrouvent dans la posture de « réfugié (homo)sexuel » en France, sans que pour autant la question de leur « identité » sexuelle soit « résolue ».

To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcision, have responded with outrage; those committed to improving the status of women have gone beyond outrage to action by creating various programs for "eradicating" the practice. But few understand the real life complexities families face in deciding whether to follow the traditional practices or to take the risk of change. InThe Female Circumcision Controversy, Ellen Gruenbaum points out that Western outrage and Western efforts to stop genital mutilation often provoke a strong backlash from people in the countries where the practice is common. She looks at the validity of Western arguments against the practice. In doing so, she explores both outsider and insider perspectives on female circumcision, concentrating particularly on the complex attitudes of the individuals and groups who practice it and on indigenous efforts to end it. Gruenbaum finds that the criticisms of outsiders are frequently simplistic and fail to appreciate the diversity of cultural contexts, the complex meanings, and the conflicting responses to change. Drawing on over five years of fieldwork in Sudan, where the most severe forms of genital surgery are common, Gruenbaum shows that the practices of female circumcision are deeply embedded in Sudanese cultural traditions-in religious, moral, and aesthetic values, and in ideas about class, ethnicity, and gender. Her research illuminates both the resistance to and the acceptance of change. She shows that change is occurring as the result of economic and social developments, the influences of Islamic activists, the work of Sudanese health educators, and the efforts of educated African women. That does not mean that there is no role for outsiders, Gruenbaum asserts, and she offers suggestions for those who wish to help facilitate change. By presenting specific cultural contexts and human experiences with a deep knowledge of the tremendous variation of the practice and meaning of female circumcision, Gruenbaum provides an insightful analysis of the process of changing this complex, highly debated practice.

The past decade has seen a wealth of changes in the gay and lesbian movement and a remarkable growth in gay and lesbian studies. In response to this heightened activity Barry D. Adam has updated his 1987 study of the movement to offer a critical reflection on strategies and objectives that have been developed for the protection and welfare of those who love others of their own sex. This revised volume addresses the movement's recovery of momentum in the wake of New Right campaigns and its gains in human rights and domestic partners' legislation in several countries; the impact of AIDS on movement issues and strategies and the renewal of militant tactics through AIDS activism and Queer Nation; internal debates that continually shift the meanings composing homosexual, gay, lesbian, and queer identities and cultures; the proliferation of new movement groups in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa; and new developments in historical scholarship that are enriching our understanding of same-sex bonding in the past. Adam delineates the formation of gay and lesbian movements as truly a world phenomenon, exploring their histories in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and countries for which very little information about the activities of gay men and lesbians has been made available. In this global picture of the mobilization of homosexuals Adam identifies the critical factors that have given personal and historical subjectivity to desire, that have shaped the faces and territories of homosexual people, and that have generated homophobia and heterosexism. Treating the sociological aspects of the rise of the gay and lesbian movement, Adamalso looks at "new social movements" theory in relation to the gay and lesbian movement and cultural nationalism - whether in the form of cultural feminism or queer nationalism - which he considers an important, perhaps inevitable, moment in the empowerment of inferiorized people.

A multi-media project profiling the spaces of the Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp: spaces of exception whose position in the struggle for native and Palestinian autonomy are essential. The Native and the Refugee will culminate in a feature-length documentary film.