Research Catalog

Title

Reproduction in an African city today : decisions, choices and opportunities in Maputo, Mozambique / Rogers Hansine.

Author

Hansine, Rogers

Publication

• M Lit, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

ix, 227 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Beitr̃ge zur Afrikaforschung, 0938-7285 ; Band 96

Uniform Title

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Bd. 96.

Subject

• Birth control > Mozambique > Maputo
• Human reproduction > Mozambique > Maputo
• Fertility, Human > Mozambique > Maputo
• Differentiation (Sociology) > Mozambique > Maputo
• Social stratification > Mozambique > Maputo
• Women > Mozambique > Maputo
• City and town life > Mozambique > Maputo
• Birth control
• City and town life
• Differentiation (Sociology)
• Fertility, Human
• Human reproduction
• Social stratification
• Women
• Mozambique > Maputo

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit̃t Bayreuth, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222).

Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Introductory Material -- Reproduction, decisions, choices and opportunities in Maputo city -- Book's background -- Understanding fertility differences in urban settings -- Fertility disparities in Maputo -- Beyond the fertility transition tale -- The structure of the book -- Human Reproduction : Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Introduction -- The dominant approaches and frameworks -- What is known so far? -- Qualitative approach to reproductive choices -- Methodological Approach -- Introduction -- Towards qualitative approaches in fertility studies -- Social mechanism -- Phenomenology of place -- The methodological toolbox : accessing pre-reflexive and reflexive knowledge -- Qualitative and spatial-based analysis -- Positionality and self-reflexivity -- Empirical Material -- Introduction -- Working with biographical interviews : the narratives and the knowledge -- Key cases of biographical narratives -- Selected cases of auto-biographical narratives -- Beyond narratives of post-colonial urban dichotomy -- Urban life-styles and reproduction in Maputo -- Introduction -- Urban life-styles in Maputo -- Analytical synthesis : urban life-styles transformations in time and space -- Urban life-styles and reproductive choices -- Explaining the intraurban reproductive choice disparities -- Introduction -- Reproductive choices and social distinction -- Education, social differentiation, and social reproduction -- Education and competition for socio-economic status -- Producing and reproducing social stratification? -- Intraurban reproductive disparities : an opportunity-based explanation -- Towards a typology of urban reproductive choices -- Introduction -- Prototypes of urban reproductive choices in Maputo -- The micro and macro link : from reproductive choices to reproductive disparities -- What can we learn from qualitative study on reproductive choice disparities? -- Socio and spatial-based theorizing on reproductive choices -- Conclusions, implications, and agenda for future research -- Methodological choices and summary of empirical findings -- Reproductive choices : a qualitative explanation -- References -- Appendices.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-10220

ISBN

• 9783643913432
• 3643913435

OCLC

1310707283

Author

Hansine, Rogers, author.

Title

Reproduction in an African city today : decisions, choices and opportunities in Maputo, Mozambique / Rogers Hansine.

Publisher

M ster : Lit, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Beitr̃ge zur Afrikaforschung, 0938-7285 ; Band 96

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Bd. 96.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222).

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-10220