Titlebook: Women Researching in Africa; The Impact of Gender Ruth Jackson,Max Kelly Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 Res

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Historiography of African Market Womener. Being a historical researcher entails gathering information, interpreting and writing history; being a female historian assisted Oladejo because of her fieldwork and interactions with older market women. While historians are expected to write and analyse the past, they are not necessarily expect

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Women Researching Africa: Linking Experience to Practicesues of power, access and representation, as well as privilege and identity. The differential experiences of researchers based on a complex and interrelated range of factors, primarily: gender, ethnicity, age and social position, highlight the need for critical reflection within research on position

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Book 2019 gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience. Drawing on research findings from

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‘Gone Native?’: Reflections of a Feminist Tightrope Walker’s Research on ‘Land Grabbing’ and the Dilwas facilitated more by being perceived as a ‘courageous mother’ than a ‘foreign’ researcher in a society that attributes special places to mothers but not young women questioning power relations, states and companies’ land deals, and more importantly, the gender of power.

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When in Rome…: Navigating Decolonial Research as a Diasporic Black Woman efforts still too often seem to be written for and assume a ‘neutral,’ i.e. (male) researcher of European descent. In response, Hirsch consequently calls for a more gender-inclusive approach to decolonising research.

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Researching the Rural: A , Loose in Africactual impact on the research, the researcher and the researched. Reflecting on the evolution of both author as researcher, and development research discourse, Kelly calls for a deeper, more critical engagement with positionality and gender within international development research.

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Historiography of African Market Womenty of Ibadan in Nigeria, to her growing interest in women’s studies beyond the confines of historical research that led her to undertake a Professional Masters of Business Administration. Expanding her understanding of women’s development, Oladejo argues that writing for women’s empowerment has expanded her research on the historiography of women.

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Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist Fieldwork in Africa Africa; and dealing with the basic logistics and travel requirements. By listening to the voices of women and enabling them to be heard within history, this chapter asks if any ‘woman’ researching in/on Africa has the emancipatory potential to challenge the dominant colonial and postcolonial discourses that have determined historical texts.

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Challenges and Opportunities of Doing Fieldwork as a Woman on Women in Guinear ethnographic approach because accessibility to women proved to be a major challenge. In the conclusion, Ammann argues that flexibility and adaptation are key for ethnographic research. She pleads for more contributions in which not only female but also male researchers reflect on how their gendered presence influences their research settings.