Search results

"Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices. In recent years, ideological shifts and real managerial constraints have forced states everywhere to rely on private resources to solve public problems. Focusing on instances where the state retains ownership of assets and rights, even if it temporarily devolves its authority to a private entity (profit or non-profit), this book uncovers the ways in which these private actors are not just suppliers of materials goods, but increasingly policy influencers. More specifically, the book focuses on the gendered dynamics within the law, policy and practice of public procurement and investigates how vulnerability is conceptualized and coded in the process of public acquisition of works, goods, and services from private suppliers. In this book, a series of rich case studies from Africa, the Middle East and Europe show how vulnerability theory can inform the design of public institutions that are more responsible and responsive to gender-informed demands for social justice. This first book to integrate vulnerability theory into public procurement studies in global and comparative perspectives will appeal to scholars and others with interests in gendered dynamics in law and society, international development, public policy, and international political economy"--

"Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices. In recent years, ideological shifts and real managerial constraints have forced states everywhere to rely on private resources to solve public problems. Focusing on instances where the state retains ownership of assets and rights, even if it temporarily devolves its authority to a private entity (profit or non-profit), this book uncovers the ways in which these private actors are not just suppliers of materials goods, but increasingly policy influencers. More specifically, the book focuses on the gendered dynamics within the law, policy and practice of public procurement and investigates how vulnerability is conceptualized and coded in the process of public acquisition of works, goods, and services from private suppliers. In this book, a series of rich case studies from Africa, the Middle East and Europe show how vulnerability theory can inform the design of public institutions that are more responsible and responsive to gender-informed demands for social justice"--

Intro -- Praise for African(a) Queer Presence -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- The Materials -- 2 Dialectics, Simulacra, and Identity Negotiation Framework -- Definition of Terms and Mapping of the Argument -- Queerness and Queer -- Plane One -- Plane Two -- Senghor: Streaming a New Humanism -- Three Levels of Presence -- Death-Dealing Participative Presence -- Creative and Revelatory Actual Presence -- All Virtual Presences -- Plane 3 -- Theoretic Muses -- Adorno: A Player Without a Play? -- Baudrillard and the Strategy of Appearances -- Chwe: Folk Game Theory and Strategy as Depth of Desire? -- 3 Proteus: (Am)bushmen and the Theology of Queer Presence -- God's Typewriter: The Simulacrum of Damnation -- "The Company Says No": Privatization as Corporate Objection -- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child": Building on the Indigenous from Near and Far -- The Trial of the Subject: Backward-Forward Perspectives and Roads Less Traveled -- A Drink to !Nanseb as We Jump Ship -- 4 Queer Rattling: The Postcolony and Blasphemous Displacements -- Karmen Geï: The Operatic Thing and Its Advent -- Angélique: Queer Conscription and the Deconstruction of the Thing -- Involution/Evolution as Queer Discernment -- Homiletics as Queer Diaphany -- The Erotic as Kenosis: Beyond the Way of the Fish and Flies -- 5 Conclusion: Muntu Through a Glass Queerly/Darkly -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of acronyms; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Notes; PART I: Perspectives on care; Plum Leaves; Gloves; 1. Traditional African systems of land ownership and their impact on lesbian women; Notes; 2. Queering love: Sex, care, capital, and academic prejudices; Introduction; On the production of knowledge about sexuality in Africa; The economy of love; Violet's story; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Women who love women: Negotiation of African traditions and kinship; Introduction; Ubuntu as capital

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective