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Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agency in the community, market, and state. It argues, based on interviews with Rwandan women, that after the genocide elite women with access to land obtained opportunities to participate in collective political activities that were denied to landless women who were more preoccupied with their daily struggles to survive. It calls for an intersectional examination of class within the continuum of violence against women in the aftermath of conflicts.

Source: The Journal of Peasant Studies

DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

Author: Xianan Jin

Institution: University of Exeter

Language: English

Topic: Land Rights and Reforms

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, No poverty

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Chinese Government Scholarship