The social and political construction of policies on adolescent pregnancy and child marriage in Zambia (1964-2018)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ruiters, Gregory | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zgambo, Timalizge | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-11T08:16:45Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-03T10:12:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-11T08:16:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-03T10:12:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Philosophiae Doctor - PhD | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the social and political construction of adolescent pregnancy and child marriage policy and practices in Zambia between the nation's birth in 1964 and 2018 using a social constructionist approach. This approach questions the many ways social problems are defined, labelled, framed and understood by different groups/actors. Using a multimodal research method, I combined archival materials, policy documents, parliamentary speeches, newspapers and interviews with non-state actors. The main findings show that firstly (in a broader context), Zambia is caught up in multiple spatio-temporalities: its colonial past, “Christian nation notion/ideology”, and neoliberal developmentalism. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/12944 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adolescents | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child marriage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Christianity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pregnancy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zimbabwe | en_US |
| dc.title | The social and political construction of policies on adolescent pregnancy and child marriage in Zambia (1964-2018) | en_US |