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Analysing the history of agrarian struggles in Tanzania from a feminist perspective

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  • Marjorie Mbilinyi

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Agriculture remains the major site of employment and livelihoods for most Tanzanians, and especially women. This article explores patterns of continuity and change in agrarian struggles and primitive accumulation in Tanzania from a transformative feminist perspective. Such a framework combines gender and class, and questions of race and national sovereignty in its analysis of production and reproduction as significant components of feminist political economy. It pursues the author’s particular interest in the continuity between colonial efforts to destroy the self-sustaining nature of peasant production and reproduction and to promote settler and corporate agriculture and mining instead, and the present neoliberal focus on ‘transformation’. The analysis here is based on a re-reading of earlier work, including much of the author’s own, together with reflection on the results of participatory action research carried out by the Tanzanian Gender Networking Programme with grassroots activists in selected rural areas during the period from 2010 to 2014. Of particular significance is the joint emphasis given by grassroots women both to economic and social service issues.

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  • Marjorie Mbilinyi, 2016. "Analysing the history of agrarian struggles in Tanzania from a feminist perspective," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(0), pages 115-129, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:43:y:2016:i:0:p:115-129
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1219036
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    1. Lyn Ossome, 2021. "Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 10(1), pages 41-58, April.
    2. Daudu Abdulrazaq K. & Kareem Oyedola W. & Olatinwo Latifat K. & Shuaib Suleiman B. & Abdulrahman Abdulganiyu I., 2023. "Does Gender Wage Gap Exist among Farm Workers in Nigeria? Evidence from Decomposition-Matching Analysis," Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 115-137, October.
    3. Elena Baglioni, 2022. "The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 36(3), pages 445-464, June.
    4. Ruth Smith & Anna Mdee & Susannah Sallu, 2023. "How gender mainstreaming plays out in Tanzania's climate‐smart agricultural policy: Isomorphic mimicry of international discourse," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(6), November.
    5. Olivia Howland & Dan Brockington & Christine Noe, 2020. "Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 9(2), pages 171-196, August.
    6. Venis, Robbie A. & Taylor, Virginia & Sumayani, Paulina & Laizer, Marie & Anderson, Troy & Basu, Onita D., 2022. "Towards a participatory framework for improving water & health outcomes: A case study with Maasai women in rural Tanzania," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 301(C).

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