{"id":196,"date":"2020-01-15T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/iads\/?p=196"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:20:22","slug":"environment-gender-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/2020\/01\/15\/environment-gender-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment, Gender and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Gender and Identity<\/em>\n Cluster focuses on investigations on ideas, thoughts, opinions, \nlegislations and policies on and around issues of gender, gender \nrelations, behaviours and attitudesin private and public spaces. Its \nresearch concerns and interests centre primarily on the social \nperception, status, positioning and construction of such notions as \nmasculinity, femininity and childhood (in terms of boyhood and \ngirlhood); that is, in simple terms the social notions and \ninterpretations of the biological reality and fact of a person being \nmale, female or child in the African context and in relations between \nAfrica and the wider world, in the several considerations and \nconceptions of the phenomena local and global African sense and \nperspective. Essentially, the cluster interrogates gender issues as they\n operate at the individual, institutional and state levels. Though, \nGender has been generally known and understood as a natural attribute in\n many regards and perspectives, social perceptions, considerations and \nconstructions of the phenomenonhas essentiallybeen varied, diverse and \neven contradictory; which sometimes makes it contentious and also \nconflictive. In addition to the challenges, dilemmas and contradictions \nof gender and the implied sociocultural, philosophical and political \nunderpinnings, the phenomenon has tended to elicit wide ranging academic\n and intellectual attention and debates. This could largely be largely \naccounted for by the fact that issues of gender are ubiquitous and \ndominant in many African societies and the global African world; and \ntherefore deserve special consideration and focus. The roles, \nresponsibilities and roles assigned for people because of the fact of \ntheir being either man, woman or child and the images, perceptions and \nconceptions of these have enormous sociocultural undertones and \nfar-reaching implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another significantfocal aspect of the Gender and Identity<\/em>\n research cluster is concerned with the phenomenon identity, a matter \nthat seems to underlie most human affairs and endeavours, more so in the\n African situation.  Though issues of identity could be exclusive of \ngender in many respects, research in identity (or identities) is as \nimportant and interrelated with gender in terms of scope, presence and \nintensity.The phenomenon of identity has far reaching implications and \nprominence as many issues of human concern and interest. Even in \nassociation with gender identity is as significant as it is diverse. In \ngender studies, the question of being and who one is or represents or \nsignifies at the individual, social, national level and the broad human \nset up is a noteworthy subject of interrogation. And has dominated \ndiscourse in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, the question of identity\n is as ubiquitous as it is controversial in human affairs and relations \nthat it deserves intense and serious intellectual engagement and \ninterrogation. Identity, in its diverse scope and implications, is \nrelevant to human social existence, and therefore shares a direct \ncorrelationwith the sustenance of human social systems and entire human \ndevelopment project.<\/p>\n