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16%OFFIneke Buskens - Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies - 9781783600427 - V9781783600427
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

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Description for Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies Paperback. The most comprehensive analysis available on the link between ICT and women's empowerment. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; GTF; JFD; JFSJ1; KNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
What is the link between information communication technology and women's empowerment in today's development context? How can ICT facilitate the pursuit of a better world? Exploring the rich complexity of the contexts in which they live and work, the authors of Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East offer a multitude of perspectives and experiences, avoiding simplistic answers and solutions. Based on analyses from twenty-one research teams in fourteen countries, this much-needed, human-centred contribution to the fields of gender, development and information communication technology questions, demonstrates and suggests what it takes to wield the emancipatory potential ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783600427
SKU
V9781783600427
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About Ineke Buskens
Ineke Buskens is a cultural anthropologist working internationally as research methodologist and gender consultant, currently residing in South Africa. Aligning herself with a sustainable, just and loving world, Ineke designs and facilitates research, capacity building and gender awareness processes that foreground self-awareness, intentionality and dialogue. Born in the Netherlands, her degrees are from Leiden University, where she co-designed and co-facilitated ... Read more

Reviews for Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies
This remarkable book offers a diversity of rich case studies of women using ICT for empowerment in Africa and the Middle East within contexts which are normally male-dominated in their norms and values. The book is a valuable antidote to both technological utopianism and dystopianism, and should be required reading for those interested in ICT and development, both women and ... Read more

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