Agergaard, Sine

Alber, Erdmute

Booth, Sara

Botelho, Vera

Claussen, Detlev

Darby, Paul

Engh, Mari

Liston, Katie

McCree, Roy

Mueller, Julianne

Nieland, Joerg-Uwe

Poli, Raffaele

Pfister, Gertrud

Rial, Carmen

Saavedra, Martha

Schaaf, Daniela

Schokkaert, Jeron

Spitaler, Georg

Tiesler, Nina Clara

Ungruhe, Christian

v. d. Meij, Nienke

Weedon, Gavin

Williams, Jean

Members

Center for African Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Email: martha@berkeley.edu
Study Groups: WF

Research area & expertise:

• Sport (especially football and athletics)- Africa, gender, development;
• African Studies, Representations of Africa, Agrarian politics, development, public administration, Youth politics in Africa;
• China/Africa relations;

Current reasearch interests & projects:

• Women’s football in the Horn of Africa;
• The use of football as a ‘development’ tool;
• The politics of football

Selected publications:

“Derartu Tulu,” “Maria Mutola,” and “Kenenisa Bekele,” in Dictionary of African Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2011.

Co-editor with Susann Baller, “Les terrains politiques du football,” Special Issue of Politique Africaine, no. 118, June 2010.

With Susann Baller, « La politique du football en Afrique : mobilisations et trajectoires », in Politique Africaine, no. 118, June 2010.

With Marianne Meier, “Esther Phiri and the Moutawakel Effect in Zambia: An Analysis of the Use of Female Role Models in Sport for Development” Sport in Society, 12:9 2009.

"Dilemmas and Opportunities in Gender and Sport-in-development." Chapter 6 in Sport and International Development, ed. Roger Levermore and Aaron Beacom, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

“Women, Islam, Gender, Sports and the Female Body: Sub-Saharan Africa” (long version) A Mulher em África: Vozes de uma Margem sempre Presente, Editors: Inocência Mata & Laura Padilha, Lisboa: Edições Colibri / CEA-FLUL (Centro de Estudos Africanos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.) (also in negotiation to be published in Luanda, Angola), 2007.

“Excavating the Field” on The Global Game: Making space on a ‘crooked field’ by John Turnbull. Included in blog entry September 20, 2007. http://www.theglobalgame.com/pdf/saavedra.pdf, 2006.

“Women, Gender, Sports and the Female Body: Sub-Saharan Africa,” in The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health. Editor: Suad Joseph. Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

“Women, Sport, and Development,” Learn More/Gender pages, Sport and Development International Platform, Swiss Academy for Development, www.sportanddev.org/, May 2005.

“Gender and Sports,” in A Companion to Gender Studies, eds. Philomena Essed, Audrey Kobayashi, and David Theo Goldberg. Blackwell Press, 2005.

“Football Feminine: The Development of the African Game,” in Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking off a New Era, Editors: F. Hong and J.A Mangan, Frank Cass: London/Portland OR, 2004. First published as a special edition of Soccer and Society, Vol. 4, Nos 2/3. Autumn/Fall 2003

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