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This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of
'gender experts' working in environment and development
organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender
equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of
sustainable development. Developed through a series of
conversations convened by the book's editors with leading
practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this
text explores the ways gender professionals - specialists and
experts, researchers, organizational focal points - deal with
personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender
in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and
hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender
analysis is brought into fields defined as largely
techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on
insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science,
technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators
reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute
epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved
out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways
for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to
scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and
development, science and technology, and gender and women's studies
more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource
exploitation and management, with a focus on South and Southeast
Asia. It provides an exploration of the uneasy negotiations between
theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm
of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially
where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested
element of social relationships. It offers a critical feminist
perspective on gender relations and natural resource management in
the context of contemporary policy concerns: decentralized
governance, the elimination of poverty and the "mainstreaming" of
gender.Through a combination of strong conceptual argument and
empirical material from a variety of political economic and
ecological context (including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as South Asia), the book
explores gender-environment linkages within shifting configurations
of resource access and control. The book will serve as a core
resource for students of gender studies and natural resource
management, and as supplementary reading for a wide range of
disciplines including geography, environmental studies, sociology
and development. It will also provide a stimulating collection of
ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender issues within
their practice in sustainable development.
This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of
'gender experts' working in environment and development
organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender
equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of
sustainable development. Developed through a series of
conversations convened by the book's editors with leading
practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this
text explores the ways gender professionals - specialists and
experts, researchers, organizational focal points - deal with
personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender
in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and
hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender
analysis is brought into fields defined as largely
techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on
insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science,
technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators
reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute
epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved
out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways
for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to
scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and
development, science and technology, and gender and women's studies
more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship
between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice
associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and
policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of
flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers
the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and
amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual
framework based on a 'mobile political ecology' in which particular
attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and
geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the
capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the
focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and
perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the
sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky
environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the
policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book
is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural
case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are
marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region's
monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights
of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions.
Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around
the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response
strategies and broader development agendas.
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political
ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the
field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book
engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the
multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being
Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years.
The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and
extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and
community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective
learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research
and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO
transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local
communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The
book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and
outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing
reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary
geographical contours of power.
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political
ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the
field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book
engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the
multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being
Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years.
The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and
extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and
community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective
learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research
and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO
transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local
communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The
book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and
outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing
reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary
geographical contours of power.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship
between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice
associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and
policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of
flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers
the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and
amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual
framework based on a 'mobile political ecology' in which particular
attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and
geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the
capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the
focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and
perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the
sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky
environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the
policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book
is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural
case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are
marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region's
monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights
of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions.
Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around
the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response
strategies and broader development agendas.
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource
exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the
uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are
often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural
resource management, especially where gender is understood as a
political, negotiated and contested element of social
relationships. It offers a critical feminist perspective on gender
relations and natural resource management in the context of
contemporary policy concerns: decentralized governance, the
elimination of poverty and the 'mainstreaming' of gender. Through a
combination of strong conceptual argument and empirical material
from a variety of political economic and ecological contexts
(including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand
and Vietnam), the book examines gender-environment linkages within
shifting configurations of resource access and control. The book
will serve as a core resource for students of gender studies and
natural resource management, and as supplementary reading for a
wide range of disciplines including geography, environmental
studies, sociology and development. It also provides a stimulating
collection of ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender
issues within their practice in sustainable development. Published
with IDRC.
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