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]
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]
Ossome, Lyn and Naidu, Srisha C (2021). 'Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe'. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.10(2): 344–370 https://doi.org/10.1177/22779760211029176[17]
Ossome, Lyn (2021). 'Land in transition: from social reproduction of labour power to social reproduction of power' Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 39(4): 550-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2021.1895431[18]
Ossome, Lyn (2021). 'The care economy and the state in Africa’s Covid-19 responses'. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 42(1-2), 68-78.https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1831448[19]
Ossome Lyn (2021). 'Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa'. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. 10(1):41-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/22779760211000939[20]
Ossome, Lyn and Naidu, Srisha C (2021). 'The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour' in Labour Questions in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4635-2_4[21]
Ossome, Lyn (2022). Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa. African Affairs, 121(484), e9-e24. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adab032[23]