MA Series – Innovative Research Methods

21st Century (2022/23)MA Series

December 28, 2022

Emma Vel'asová

China Loves Africa: A Critical Visual Analysis

By Salomé Hindriks and Emma Veľasová Michael Soi calls himself a social commentator that uses paintings as a medium ...

Archiving fieldwork Course reflections+7

July 24, 2021

Daniel Okiror

The digital African Hip Hop Podcast

https://innovativeresearchmethods.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Voice-4-thought-podcast-1st-Episode.wavDigital African Hip Hop Archive-Podcast

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January 12, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

The politics of sisterhood: A photography journey

By clicking on the images, you will have a taste of the different parts composing the thesis. You can access to the ...

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January 10, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Concluding thoughts

All in all, this research integrates a feminist perspective to the study of political agency and structure in urban Africa ...

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January 10, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

‘Standing up’: Sisterhood as a primary-response mechanism

The last section of this dissertation invites us to explore sisterhood from a perspective that places activism at the centre. ...

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January 10, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

‘Being there’: Sisterhood as support system

Guided with the question of 'why is the sisterhood relevant in terms of support system for young feminists in the ...

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January 9, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

‘My sister’s keeper’: When solidarity evolves into sisterhood

In the second empirical chapter, I develop the idea of 'sisterhood’ in a dialogue between theory and experience. Firstly, a ...

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January 8, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

What lies behind the ‘feminist sisters’?

The first empirical chapter invites us to explore the early stages of young women’s engagement with feminism in Uganda. To ...

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January 8, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Field research: My experience

Methodology, methods, and field site Considering the nature of this research, a combination of ethnographic methods looked the most appropriate option for ...

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January 7, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Contemporary African Feminism: Building a movement

In the 22nd edition of the journal Feminist Africa, Charmaine Pereira (2017) provides an overview of the trajectory and latest ...

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January 5, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

Contemporary African Feminism: Building the theory

The departure point of contemporary African feminist thought can be traced back to the 1980s, when Global South scholars and ...

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January 2, 2021

Andrea Rodriguez Hernandez

In context: The women’s movement in Uganda

Acknowledging the legacy of women organising in pre-colonial and colonial times (see Tamale 1999), most scholars trace the roots of ...