Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia

ISBN-13: 9780367366087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str.

Romina Istratii

Opis

This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. For researchers and practitioners of gender, religion, and development in Africa.

Spis treści

1. The Metaphysics of Gender and Development 2. Linguistic and Cosmological Translation 3. Intimate Partner Violence, Gender and Faith in Ethiopia 4. The Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo Tradition and the Conjugal Relationship 5. Conjugal Abuse Conceptualisations and Attitudes 6. Marriage in the Local Normative Framework 7. Responses to Conjugal Abuse in the Local Institutional Framework 8. Faith, Culture and Social Norms 9. Faith, Marriage and Gendered Expressions 10. The Individual, Human Nature and Conjugal Abuse

O autorze

Romina Istratii is currently Research Associate at the Department of Development Studies and the Centre of World Christianity, SOAS University of London, UK. She previously served as Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies. She has been an active member of the Decolonising SOAS Working Group, initiating the Decolonising Research Initiative on behalf of the SOAS Research Directorate. She is co-founder of Decolonial Subversions.