Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa

Assata Zerai; Brenda N. Sanya

doi:10.5771/9781498520843

Zusammenfassung

To understand safe water and sanitation in East Africa, it is important to consider the contributions of African feminist analysis. This perspective will unveil inequities in the distribution of resources, demonstrate how localized solutions which are driven by women’s collaborative work have had an impact by temporarily easing the burden, and paint a multilayered picture of the lives of women and girls who are the predominant providers of water to households. This book explores the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in East Africa from an African feminist sociological perspective. It presents a framework that considers the ways that the development industry, neoliberalism, neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, globalization, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children accessing clean water and safe sanitation and reducing early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This work offers a vital contribution to the social scientific literature by adapting the vibrant intellectual work of African feminists to a quantitative methodology and enlarging the scope of empirically and theoretically grounded studies within the field of environmental sociology.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-2083-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-2084-3
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 174
Produkttyp: Sammelband

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. List of Figures Kein Zugriff
3. List of Tables Kein Zugriff
4. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 18
Chapter One. The Lives of Women and Children in East Africa Kein Zugriff Seiten 19 - 46
Chapter Two. Structural and Economic Analysis of Declines in Water and Sanitation in East Africa Kein Zugriff Seiten 47 - 64
Chapter Three. Public Goods, Citizenship Rights: How Lingering Structural Inequalities Define Social Services and Government Policies Kein Zugriff Seiten 65 - 82
Chapter Four. Access to Safe Water, Women’s Empowerment, and Decentralization Systems in Tanzania Kein Zugriff Seiten 83 - 96
Chapter Five. Gender as Social Structure and Its Potential Impact on Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies in East Africa: An African Feminist Analysis Kein Zugriff Seiten 97 - 116
Chapter Six. Environmental Contamination and Early Childhood Morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda Kein Zugriff Seiten 117 - 132
Conclusion. Paying Serious Attention to Women’s Scholarship to Influence Policy in East Africa Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 140
Appendix 1. River Basin Model and Decentralization System Kein Zugriff Seiten 141 - 142
Appendix 2. Population in the Area under Study in Tanzania’s Pangani River Basin Kein Zugriff Seiten 143 - 144
Appendix 3. Safe Global Water and Sanitation Institute Summit Kein Zugriff Seiten 145 - 148
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 166
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 167 - 170
About the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 171 - 174