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Lyn Ossome

Summary

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
Born
Kenya
OccupationSenior Research Fellow
Academic background
EducationPhD
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Studies
Notable worksGender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence

Biography edit

 
Science Stadium, University of the Witwatersrand

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]

Career edit

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]

Selected publications edit

  • 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 'African Feminism' in Rabaka, R. (Ed.). (2020). Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429020193[22]
  • 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]

References edit

  1. ^ "Bod – Siha". Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  2. ^ a b "Our Journal – Agrarian South". Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  3. ^ a b Jha, Praveen; Chambati, Walter; Ossome, Lyn, eds. (2021). Labour Questions in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-981-334-634-5.
  4. ^ a b "CODESRIA: About Us".
  5. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2018). Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-5830-3.
  6. ^ a b ROAPE (2019-11-07). "Talking Back: a conversation with Lyn Ossome". ROAPE. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  7. ^ a b "Lyn Ossome | Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) - Makerere University". misr.mak.ac.ug. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  8. ^ "Professor Lyn Ossome". Plaas. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  9. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2008). "Locating Arab Refugee Women: Identity and Allegiance in Global Feminist Conflicts". Al-Raida Journal: 25–32. doi:10.32380/alrj.v0i0.154. ISSN 0259-9953.
  10. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2013). "Locating Kenyan Media in Anti-Rape Discourse: A Feminist Critique" (PDF). Africa Media Review. 21: 109–133.
  11. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2021-04-01). "Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa". Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. 10 (1): 41–58. doi:10.1177/22779760211000939. ISSN 2277-9760. S2CID 234098938.
  12. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2018-04-02). Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-5831-0.
  13. ^ "Feminist Africa - Editorial Advisory Board". Feminist Africa. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  14. ^ "Dr. Lyn Ossome Visiting Scholar at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan | Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) - Makerere University". misr.mak.ac.ug. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  15. ^ "WGSS Welcomes Visiting Faculty fall 2016 | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies". wgss.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  16. ^ "IAFFE - Lyn Ossome". www.iaffe.org. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  17. ^ Ossome, Lyn; Naidu, Sirisha C. (2021). "Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe". Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A Triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES. 10 (2): 344–370. doi:10.1177/22779760211029176. ISSN 2277-9760.
  18. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2021-10-02). "Land in transition: from social reproduction of labour power to social reproduction of power". Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 39 (4): 550–564. doi:10.1080/02589001.2021.1895431. ISSN 0258-9001.
  19. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2021-04-03). "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. doi:10.1080/02255189.2020.1831448. ISSN 0225-5189.
  20. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2021). "Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa". Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A Triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES. 10 (1): 41–58. doi:10.1177/22779760211000939. ISSN 2277-9760.
  21. ^ Ossome, Lyn; Naidu, Sirisha (2021), Jha, Praveen; Chambati, Walter; Ossome, Lyn (eds.), "The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour", Labour Questions in the Global South, Singapore: Springer, pp. 63–86, doi:10.1007/978-981-33-4635-2_4, ISBN 978-981-334-635-2, retrieved 2023-05-20
  22. ^ Rabaka, Reiland, ed. (2020-05-20). Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429020193. ISBN 978-0-429-02019-3.
  23. ^ Ossome, Lyn (2021-11-12). "Introduction: The social reproductive question of land contestations in Africa". African Affairs. 121 (484): e9–e24. doi:10.1093/afraf/adab032. ISSN 0001-9909.

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