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Social work in Africa faces major challenges due to factors such as lack of resources, insufficie... more Social work in Africa faces major challenges due to factors such as lack of resources, insufficient training schools and adequate curricula. In this situation, the actions of women's social movements can be defined as social development, more in line with the needs of the local population. This article presents, through Tanzania's case, how the actions of women's social movements, where the discipline of social work is weakened, follow different models of social development. Their actions should be reckoned as an opportunity to overcome some of the challenges of the professional education and practice of social work in the continent.

This article contributes to development research, as well as research studying inequality in agri... more This article contributes to development research, as well as research studying inequality in agricultural systems. We use empirical data from an ethnographic study in the village of Mamba, in northern Tanzania (2006–2009). This study analyzes the question of changing gender relations and the patriarchal constraints to collective action under market liberalization of cash crops. Our findings demonstrate that the shift to a market economy has influenced the nature of production relations, deepening inequalities in gender relations and the position of women. However, some women circumvent their disadvantaged situations through their association with various types of collective action groups or networks. In order to investigate the different impacts on women's lives, we analyze women's interest and motivations for these collective actions. We also identify the processes of adaptation to the new production relations through the coffee trade network and tomato cultivation groups, two local initiatives. We analyze the differences between these two forms of collective action and theorize on their different impacts on women's empowerment.

This article reflects on poverty and gender inequality from the perspective of International soci... more This article reflects on poverty and gender inequality from the perspective of International social Work, offering key concepts for their analysis and practice from two main theoretical contributions. Firstly, the capability approach, which demonstrates how a material index for poverty measures does not reflect the complexity of poverty, because it makes individuals, groups and communitarian potentials virtually invisible. secondly, feminist contributions, which analyse and redefine concepts such as home and work, demarcating the context and allowing the practice of equality and non discrimination principle. Lastly, I show how the different international policies have tried to improve the status of women as they defined female roles in specific societies.

"si las estadísticas reflejaran plenamente la contribución "invisible" de la mujer, pasaría a ser... more "si las estadísticas reflejaran plenamente la contribución "invisible" de la mujer, pasaría a ser imposible que los encargados de formular políticas económicas las dejaran de lado al adoptar decisiones nacionales; y no se seguiría considerando a las mujeres como entidades económicas inexistentes en las transacciones de mercado"

Las medidas de desarrollo coloniales británicas dirigidas a las mujeres impactaron de manera desi... more Las medidas de desarrollo coloniales británicas dirigidas a las mujeres impactaron de manera desigual en ellas, influyendo en las relaciones de género. Estas medidas han supuesto procesos de aculturación en varios sentidos: por una parte, por la transformación del modelo femenino y familiar africano "tradicional"; por otra parte, por el fomento de la diferenciación social entre las mujeres que las situará en posiciones diferentes en el movimiento independentista en Tanganyika y, en la posterior etapa postcolonial. El presente artículo rescata datos etnohistóricos de la investigación de campo desarrollada en Tanzania, durante los años 2006 y 2007, para mostrar la influencia de las ideologías europeas sobre la posición social de las mujeres y en la configuración de las nuevas clases sociales que conformarán el país tras su independencia.

Social work in Africa faces major challenges due to factors such as lack of resources, insufficie... more Social work in Africa faces major challenges due to factors such as lack of resources, insufficient training schools and adequate curricula. In this situation, the actions of women's social movements can be defined as social development, more in line with the needs of the local population. This article presents, through Tanzania's case, how the actions of women's social movements, where the discipline of social work is weakened, follow different models of social development. Their actions should be reckoned as an opportunity to overcome some of the challenges of the professional education and practice of social work in the continent.

This article contributes to development research, as well as research studying inequality in agri... more This article contributes to development research, as well as research studying inequality in agricultural systems. We use empirical data from an ethnographic study in the village of Mamba, in northern Tanzania (2006–2009). This study analyzes the question of changing gender relations and the patriarchal constraints to collective action under market liberalization of cash crops. Our findings demonstrate that the shift to a market economy has influenced the nature of production relations, deepening inequalities in gender relations and the position of women. However, some women circumvent their disadvantaged situations through their association with various types of collective action groups or networks. In order to investigate the different impacts on women's lives, we analyze women's interest and motivations for these collective actions. We also identify the processes of adaptation to the new production relations through the coffee trade network and tomato cultivation groups, two local initiatives. We analyze the differences between these two forms of collective action and theorize on their different impacts on women's empowerment.

This article reflects on poverty and gender inequality from the perspective of International soci... more This article reflects on poverty and gender inequality from the perspective of International social Work, offering key concepts for their analysis and practice from two main theoretical contributions. Firstly, the capability approach, which demonstrates how a material index for poverty measures does not reflect the complexity of poverty, because it makes individuals, groups and communitarian potentials virtually invisible. secondly, feminist contributions, which analyse and redefine concepts such as home and work, demarcating the context and allowing the practice of equality and non discrimination principle. Lastly, I show how the different international policies have tried to improve the status of women as they defined female roles in specific societies.

"si las estadísticas reflejaran plenamente la contribución "invisible" de la mujer, pasaría a ser... more "si las estadísticas reflejaran plenamente la contribución "invisible" de la mujer, pasaría a ser imposible que los encargados de formular políticas económicas las dejaran de lado al adoptar decisiones nacionales; y no se seguiría considerando a las mujeres como entidades económicas inexistentes en las transacciones de mercado"

Las medidas de desarrollo coloniales británicas dirigidas a las mujeres impactaron de manera desi... more Las medidas de desarrollo coloniales británicas dirigidas a las mujeres impactaron de manera desigual en ellas, influyendo en las relaciones de género. Estas medidas han supuesto procesos de aculturación en varios sentidos: por una parte, por la transformación del modelo femenino y familiar africano "tradicional"; por otra parte, por el fomento de la diferenciación social entre las mujeres que las situará en posiciones diferentes en el movimiento independentista en Tanganyika y, en la posterior etapa postcolonial. El presente artículo rescata datos etnohistóricos de la investigación de campo desarrollada en Tanzania, durante los años 2006 y 2007, para mostrar la influencia de las ideologías europeas sobre la posición social de las mujeres y en la configuración de las nuevas clases sociales que conformarán el país tras su independencia.