Ageism Within Feminism

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Analysing Change: Complex Rather than Dialectical?

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This article offers a discussion of dialectics from a complexity perspective. Dialectics is a term much utilized but infrequently defined. This article suggests that a spectrum of ideas exist concerning understandings of dialectics. We are particularly critical of Hegelian dialectics, which we see as anthropocentric and teleological. While Marxist approaches to dialectics, in the form of historical materialism, marked a break from the idealist elements of Hegelian dialectics, they retained traces of this approach. The article offers a partial discussion of essential elements of dialectics, which we consider to be the analysis of change, the centrality of contradiction, and the methodology of abstraction. Points of overlap with complexity thinking are highlighted, together with those points where complexity thinking and dialectical approaches diverge. We conclude with some suggestions as to how complexity thinking might contribute to a development of dialectical approaches

Meaning and Measurement: Reconceptualizing Measures of the Division of Household Labor

This article argues that task-specific measures of the division of household labor form a gender hierarchy that reflects dimensions of meaning in the organization of household work. We contrast these measures to the commonly used time-share and Likert scale measures, which assume all tasks are interchangeable. Using Guttman scaling, we test the unidimensionality of this task hierarchy. Using odds ratios, we measure relationships between specific tasks, and using logistic regression, we see differences in correlates of husbands’ participation by task and interrelationships among tasks that persist, controlling for gender ideology and socioeconomic factors. This work should encourage development of measures of change in the segregation of household tasks by gender

Economic Data (updated 2005)

This dataset includes variables that the project has collected from other researchers and institutions. It includes multiple measures of income levels, and variables concerning national accounts, money and trade. Since different measures are used in different ways by researchers, the choice whether to include a variable in the economc.dta or politicl.dta was oftentimes quite subjective. We have chosen for example to treat inflation as an economic indicator rather than a policy variable and to treat government consumption as a policy variable. Other economic variables which contain information on policy such as tax rates, and government revenue and expenditure can be found in the political data set, politicl.dta. The variables from the two sets can easily be merged. We have provided brief descriptions of all variables, for more detailed descriptions please refer to the original sources (listed)

Power and interests in information and communication technologies and development: exogenous and endogenous discourses in contention

This paper illustrates the persistence of an exogenous model of development that underpins many interventions aimed at employing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to meet development goals. The analysis is based on a sample of texts from reports produced by United Nations agencies and the World Bank. The aim is to show how the discourse on ICT interventions invariably is reminiscent of a dominant exogenous model even when alternative models with respect to development are seen to influence policy and practice. It is argued that practice-based, emergence approaches offer an attractive, although insufficient, way forward

Violence Data from other Sources

The variables contained in this dataset are drawn five of the leading datasets on political violence that contain information for Africa. These are the Singer or Correlates of War dataset; Ted Gurr's Minorities at Risk dataset;, Arthur Banks' Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive; the U.S. Committee for Refugees' World Refugee Survey and Pat McGowan and Thomas H. Johnson’s data from “Sixty Coups in Thirty Years” and T.Y. Wang’s updating of that data in his African Coups Events Data, 1986-1990. The variables represented here from the Gurr, Singer and Banks datasets represent only a very small selection of data available in these sets. These sets cover more years, more countries and more variables than the selection available here. Further information on the Banks dataset is available at http://www.databanks.sitehosting.net/www/index.htm. The Singer dataset may be downloaded from ICPSR (9905)

New Executive and Legislative Institutions in Africa Data

This study is concerned with executive and legislative institutions in Africa