#7 - Decommodifying Water and Concluding Remarks
While the issues surrounding Africa and water are inextricably multifarious, the focus has been to narrow down on a particular challenge which communities in Africa face and contribute to the academic literature pertaining to that issue. Through this series of blog posts I have questioned the relationship between gender, water and the development of communities across Africa with a particular focus on issues concerning under-development, time poverties and their entanglement within privatisation schemes. When it came to the topic of water procurement, provision and management, ideas of gender parity and equality were particularly powerful in underscoring the social, cultural and structural forces which engender these roles in the first place. It will be exceptionally interesting in the future to see how these African societies, in places like Tanzania and Namibia, begin to develop and the impact that this has on gender parity. What has been of paramount importance to this blog is the