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Gender, Protests and Political Change in AfricaStudent Movements and Autocracies in Africa

Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa: Student Movements and Autocracies in Africa [This chapter offers a historical mapping of student movements and youth-led protests against autocracies in African countries. It focuses on student movements in Senegal, Tanzania and Sudan from the period before independence to the present day to consider the intersections of youth-hood, power, higher education institutions and the state in each of these cases. It highlight the various continuities and disjunctures in the ways that university student movements have challenged autocracy to consider how “successful” student protests can be in shifting political bases of power.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Protests and Political Change in AfricaStudent Movements and Autocracies in Africa

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Chapters “Student Movements and Autocracies in Africa”, “A Revolution Deferred: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Egypt”, and “The Revolution Continues: Sudanese Women’s Activism” are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapters.
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978-3-030-46342-7
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35 –60
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-46343-4_3
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[This chapter offers a historical mapping of student movements and youth-led protests against autocracies in African countries. It focuses on student movements in Senegal, Tanzania and Sudan from the period before independence to the present day to consider the intersections of youth-hood, power, higher education institutions and the state in each of these cases. It highlight the various continuities and disjunctures in the ways that university student movements have challenged autocracy to consider how “successful” student protests can be in shifting political bases of power.]

Published: Jul 4, 2020

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