This special issue arose from the International Workshop on “Rethinking Time and Gender in African History” (see conference poster), which I convened in collaboration with my African Studies colleagues at Ghent University, especially Inge Brinkman. After the workshop, Heike Becker and I joined forces to curate this special issue.
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(See below for the synopsis, table of contents, and links to articles.)
This special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take the notions of time and gender for granted in our practices of research and writing. In this special issue – that brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, focusing on different time periods, and using different methodological approaches – we ask what would happen if we brought the notions of time and gender into a more critical focus. How would this reshape the gendered histories we write?
Articles included in this volume:
Introduction: Rethinking Time and Gender in African History
Jonna Katto & Heike Becker
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1083
Gender Time, Gendered Time: In Parts of Africa
David Schoenbrun
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1084
Carnival, Power, and Queer Joy: Chrono-normativity, Carnivalesque Transgressions, and the Spectacle of Gender in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (ca. 1950–1975)
Caio Simões de Araújo
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1085
Queer Femme Drag Futures
Lindy-Lee Prince
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1086
“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Christine Saidi
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1087
Shared Symbols, Different Symbolism? Blending Gender Categories in Northern Sotho Initiation Rock Art, Makgabeng, South Africa
Catherine Namono
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1088
“There Was No Change”: Kenyan Women, Temporality, and Decolonization
Kara Moskowitz
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.913
Re-visiting ‘African Tradition’, Re-thinking Gender and Power: Learning from Fieldwork in Northern Mozambique
Signe Arnfred
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1089
“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Rethinking Gender, Colonialism, and Narratives of Modernity from the Northern Namibian Sound Archive
Heike Becker
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1090
Times Told, Lived, and Remembered: The Multitemporality of the Present in Yaawo Oral Histories of Gendered Power in Northern Mozambique
Jonna Katto
https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v32i3.1091