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A road connecting Thies to Dakar via Diamniadio.
Highway of the Future
How does the WoMin collective argue consent should be used by governments?
What is consent cannot be separated from decision making and must into development thinking.
Which group did the WoMin collective focus on in their case study?
A shared theme across readings referring to the fight for recognition, autonomy, and decolonization.
Struggle
A principle to ensure that states fully consult with indigenous people's about matters that affect their development, land, and resources.
Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)
What is the injustice of legality of consent?
The policies to protect natural resource rights and indigenous claims over land can be signed over through legal means -especially when women are involved.
How is Ngugi wa Thingo's resistance tradition manifested in the WoMin collective and the Xolobeni?
WoMin collective challenges 'development' to include FPIC and recognize women in land rights.
Xolobeni use local non-civil organization to resist mining.
A non-renewable economic "development" model organized around large scale removal.
Extractivism
What does "The Highway of the Future" show us about how citizens are treated after getting consent?
People who provide consent are discarded, placed in worse living conditions, and ignored.
This group represented the importance of local resistance, organization, and customary law in Amadiba.
The Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC)
How do the WoMin collective and Xolobeni actualize decolonization?
They destabilize the existing paradigm of extraction as development for Sub-Saharan African communities.
Senegalese officials relocated Dakar citizens to this landfill prior to neighborhood demolition.
Mbeubeuss Landfill
According to the Xolobeni case, what does the WoMin Collective ultimately argue about how consent is achieved?
Consent is is won through struggle, resistance, and organizing, and is not guaranteed legally.
How does extractivism reinforce gender binaries as pointed out by Oyewumi?
Maintains the subordination of women in a 'caretaker' role
Women who are barred from decision-making based on their class and gender face this:
Double Exclusion
What social role does land play in some Sub-Saharan societies and how does it impact women?
Land is a symbol of male domination despite the impactful labor done by women. Patrilineal systems subordinate women by preventing ownership and inheritance.
Who is a prominent female activist from Xolobeni known for leading resistance against mining?
Nonhle Mbuthuma
BONUS QUESTION! (Double Points)
What recent example in the US mirrors the destructive nature of the "Highway of the Future"?
Hint: 1948-1972
The Cross Bronx Expressway