Property Rights, Inheritance, and Female Education in Kenya

肯尼亚的财产权、继承权和女性教育

• 批准号: 0456015
• 负责人: Carolyn Lesorogol
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0456015&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Property; Rights; Inheritance; Female; Education

This project studies institutional change in two contexts among Kenyan pastoralists: the shift from communal to private property and the advent of formal education of girls. The research analyzes the transition from communal to private land ownership and shows the consequences of this shift for economic well being and social relations; in addition the project illustrates the effects of female education on social norms related to property rights and intra-household bargaining. The study will employs a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, life history interviews of women, and structured questionnaire surveys. The intellectual merit of this project is that it provides an actual case of institutional change which will provide a stronger basis for improving theories of how such change occurs; in addition the project shows how individuals and groups behave strategically over time to enhance their bargaining positions in order to work for institutional arrangements that they perceive to be in their interests; as well the work contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the theory of institutional change. This study will also provide longitudinal data regarding the economic outcomes of privatizing communal land among African pastoralists. Scholars often assume that privatization results in negative outcomes for pastoralists, but empirical data necessary to assess this assumption-especially longitudinal data-are missing. In addition, this detailed ethnographic investigation of formal education of female pastoralists will enhance understanding of both the process and outcomes of female education among a very marginal group, and will contribute to theories regarding how educated women influence the course of institutional change.Broader impact. This study will contribute to policy debates over property rights and female education in Kenya and Africa, both of which are currently hotly contested, particularly due to the ongoing Kenyan Constitutional review in which fundamental laws regarding property and women's rights are being decided. The new knowledge created through this study will be highly relevant to scholars in the fields of women's and gender studies as well as development practitioners concerned with land rights, pastoralism, and education design.

该项目研究了肯尼亚牧民的两种情况下的机构变革：从公共财产转向私有财产以及女孩的正规教育的转变。 该研究分析了从公共土地所有权到私人土地所有权的过渡，并显示了这种转变对经济福祉和社会关系的后果；此外，该项目说明了女性教育对与财产权和室内议价有关的社会规范的影响。 该研究将采用定性和定量方法的混合，包括参与者观察，半结构化访谈，妇女的生活史访谈和结构化问卷调查。 该项目的智力优点在于，它提供了机构变革的实际案例，该案例将为改善这种变化的发生理论提供更强的基础。此外，该项目还展示了个人和团体如何随着时间的推移而战略行事以提高其议价地位，以便为他们认为符合自己的利益的机构安排工作；这项工作也有助于对制度变革理论的更细微的理解。 这项研究还将提供有关在非洲牧民中私有化社区土地的经济成果的纵向数据。 学者通常认为私有化会导致牧民的负面结果，但是评估这一假设所需的经验数据 - 尤其是纵向数据 - 缺失。 此外，对女性牧民的正规教育的详细民族志调查将增强对一个非常边缘群体中女性教育的过程和成果的理解，并将为受教育妇女影响制度变化的过程做出贡献。 这项研究将促进有关肯尼亚和非洲财产权和女性教育的政策辩论，目前均引起了激烈的争论，尤其是由于正在进行的肯尼亚宪法审查，在该宪法审查中，关于财产和妇女权利的基本法律。 通过这项研究创造的新知识将与妇女和性别研究领域的学者以及与土地权利，牧民和教育设计有关的发展从业者高度相关。