Oldfield, SophieSalo, Elaine2010-07-202010-07-202009Oldfield, S & Salo, E 2009, ‘Nurturing researchers, building local knowledge : the ‘Body Politics’ Project’, Feminist Africa, vol. 13, pp. 87-94.1726-4596http://hdl.handle.net/2263/14502Beginning in 2006, the project has been anchored in the Body Politics post-graduate course entitled ‘Gendered and Cultural Readings of Home, Citizenship and Cities’. As the course progressed, we built the conceptual foundation, a place and the process through which we generated a transdisciplinary conversation to read, research and reflect on identities, gendered subjectivities and agency, explored through ideas and practices related to home, struggles for citizenship and a reading of cities from this rich, diverse local base.enAfrica Gender InstituteGender studiesGender identityIntercultural communicationResearch and development projectsKnowledge, Sociology ofNurturing researchers, building local knowledge : the ‘Body Politics’ projectArticle