Family Structures and Globalization in Africa
Barcelona, Spain | March 6-8, 2008
This experts meeting addressed questions such as how globalization is affecting family structure in Africa, and, conversely, how the African family structure is influencing the style and extent to which globalization will occur on the African continent.
Speakers:
Erdmute Alber – University of Bayreuth
Family Change in Africa: An Overview of the Literature
Leslie Bank – Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research
Matrifocality, Patriarchy and Globalization: Changing Family Forms in a South African City
Abena Busia – Rutgers University
Towards a Different Kind of Freedom: Notes on Historicizing Globalization and Women in Africa
Paloma Durán – Complutense University
An Approach to the Concept of Family in the African Union
Francis Dodoo – Pennsylvania State University and University of Ghana
Re-thinking Gender and Power in African Families: Conceptual Basis and Preliminary Evidence
Victor Seidler – Goldsmiths University of London
African Masculinities, Relationships and Sexualities
Daniel Jordan Smith – Brown University
Stretched and Strained but not Broken: Kinship in Contemporary Nigeria
Susanna Wing – Haverford College
Globalization and Marriage: Family Law Reform in West Africa
Discussants:
Ann M. Brach - National Academy of Sciences
Rosalinda Corbi - "Harambee" Program
Laurie DeRose - Maryland Population Research Center
Antoinette Kankindi Kagoyire - Strathmore University
Luvuyo Ndimeni - United Nations
Florence Jacqueline Achieng' Oloo - Strathmore University
Javier Santomá - IESE Business School
W. Bradford Wilcox - University of Virginia
Moderator:
Ana Marta González - University of Navarra
The papers presented at the meeting have been published as the volume Frontiers of Globalization: Kinship and Family Structures in Africa.
The adjoining photograph captures the participants gathered in IESE's north campus lobby.
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