Lyn Ossome | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kenya |
| Occupation | Senior Research Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Studies |
| Notable works | Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence |
Marilyn ('Lyn') Ossome is an academic,specialising in feminist political theory and feminist political economics. She is currently Senior Research Associate of at the University of Johannesburg and a member of the advisory board for the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, [1] amongst other accolades. She is an editorial board member of Agrarian South:Journal of Political Economy, [2] and in 2021,she co-edited the volume Labour Questions in the Global South. [3] She serves on the executive committee for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] She is the author of Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence. [5]
Lyn Ossome was born and raised in Kenya. [6] She holds a PhD in Political Studies from University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg. [7] From 2016 to 2021 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research,at Makerere University in Uganda. [7] She describes her academic approach as 'a kind of activist-scholarship'. [6]
Ossome's research focusses particularly on gendered labour,queer feminist history and gendered violence,as well as agrarian and land studies. [8] Her work on feminism includes articles on Arab refugee women, [9] Kenyan media and anti-rape discourse, [10] and agrarian movements in Africa. [11]
Her 2018 book Gender,Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy:States of Violence examined 'the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya'. [12] In 2021,she co-edited the volume Labour Questions in the Global South. [3]
She is an editorial board member of Agrarian South:Journal of Political Economy, [2] and serves on the advisory board of Feminist Africa. [13]
In 2016,Ossome was a visiting scholar at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. [14] She was also Visiting Presidential Professor in Women's,Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University from 2016-17. [15]
Ossome serves on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), [16] and the executive committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4]
Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxist theory. Marxist feminism analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. According to Marxist feminists,women's liberation can only be achieved by dismantling the capitalist systems in which they contend much of women's labor is uncompensated. Marxist feminists extend traditional Marxist analysis by applying it to unpaid domestic labor and sex relations.
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