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SUMMARY:Kinship obligations\, capital and forms of belonging among Africa
 ’s farming communities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Phefumula Nyoni (UJ-Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Edu
 cation Studies)\nThis study is an investigation of kinship influences on w
 omen smallholder farmers’ practices in rural spaces. This study is an on
 going study conducted within a context were livelihoods are increasingly g
 etting linked to the capitalist economy which has proved to be going throu
 gh rapid transformations largely linked to the features of the Fourth Indu
 strial Revolution (4th IR). A study that focuses on kinship influences on 
 women farming practices is essential when one looks into the resilience of
  customary forms or organisation within the current neoliberal setting whe
 re the dictates of the 4th IR are looming large. Instead of such forms of 
 organisation being pushed to the periphery they have come to be at the cor
 e of defining socio-economic relationships. In this regard\, the study wil
 l seek to establish forms of relationships that kinship assists to shape a
 s women engage in their farming activities. This is especially with respec
 t to how the kinship obligations act as an enabling or constraining form o
 f agency within the whims of Victor Turners concept of Liminality. Whilst 
 methodologically\,  the broader study is set to draw from in-depth intervi
 ews and observations this paper is a result of the initial phase which dra
 ws from empirical literature.\n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/event/171/cont
 ributions/2083/
LOCATION:School of Tourism and Hospitality Protea Auditorium
URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/171/contributions/2083/
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