@DzodziTsikata feminist, academic and professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana is about the start the second presentation on #GenderStudies and #CriticalAgrarianStudies #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal 
#CriticalAgrarianStudies has a lot in common with #GenderStudies:
- CAS: constructing alternatives while criticizing biases in dominant paradigms in social science
- GS: interrogating androcentric biases in both mainstream and heterodox social sciences
- CAS: constructing alternatives while criticizing biases in dominant paradigms in social science
- GS: interrogating androcentric biases in both mainstream and heterodox social sciences
Feminist Political Economy brings together many of the overlapped concerns of both theoretical fields:
Key insights from FPE: do the traditional categories of Agrarian Studies: peasants, class, villages, communities, movements, reproduction represent women as well as men?
Key insights from FPE: do the traditional categories of Agrarian Studies: peasants, class, villages, communities, movements, reproduction represent women as well as men?
The feminist political economy highlights the importance of the domestic and care sectors and economies: capitalist reproduction relies on semi-proletarianized households.
Social reproduction is an indispensable background condition for the possibility of capitalist production
Social reproduction is an indispensable background condition for the possibility of capitalist production
Recognizing the care economy would have implications in three interdependent spheres: the state, the market, and the household.
The feminist models of the economy show the interconnectedness between different sectors, highlighting the differences between formal and informal
The feminist models of the economy show the interconnectedness between different sectors, highlighting the differences between formal and informal
Distinguishing the care work from other kinds of work is essential because it demonstrates and explains the vulnerability of those who provide it: limits of efficiency, emotional constraints, among other factors.
Engendering class analysis is one of the most important outcomes of the dialogue between these perspectives:
Feminist scholars have highlighted the gendered nature processes of class formation, as Archana Prasad did in the paper on the Adivasi Women:
doi.org/10.1177/227797…
Feminist scholars have highlighted the gendered nature processes of class formation, as Archana Prasad did in the paper on the Adivasi Women:
doi.org/10.1177/227797…
Female-headed farm household has become an important category in the dialogue between #CriticalAgrarianStudies and #GenderStudies in the context of violence and migration on which traditional gender roles are rearranged.
Marriage and kinship institutions also have implications for the agrarian political economy, they have a two-way relation, marriage, and kinship structure access to land, in turn, development in marriage impacts the agrarian political economy.
Gender studies challenge how we understand key concepts in our field (peasant, household, production, capitalism), the way we frame questions, the unit of analysis we use, and the methodologies we enforce while doing research.
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