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This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical
change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the
evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical
approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework
to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends
demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive
incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization
of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing
gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy,
and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case
studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by
gender practices and expectations that involve men in different
ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power
relations between differently positioned masculine groups.
Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together
with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant
masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so
much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and
conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven
developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting
with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern
relations among humans and between humans and their environment.
This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical
change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the
evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical
approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework
to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends
demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive
incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization
of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing
gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy,
and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case
studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by
gender practices and expectations that involve men in different
ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power
relations between differently positioned masculine groups.
Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together
with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant
masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so
much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and
conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven
developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting
with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern
relations among humans and between humans and their environment.
"Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field
of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution.
Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and
well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and
applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts, and
methods."-Marianne Schmink, director, Tropical Conservation and
Development Program, University of Florida "Political ecology and
ecologists are sure to benefit from this splendid array of
rigorous, richly contextualized, and far-reaching accounts that
injects a masterful blend of political analysis and attention to
the lifeworlds of diverse peoples worldwide into environmental
studies."-Karl Zimmerer, professor and chair, Department of
Geography and Institute for Environmental Studies, University of
Wisconsin, Madison "An ingenious mix of genealogy and the unfolding
future of political ecology, bringing fresh insights to the
dynamics of place, power, and people across the globe."-Dianne
Rocheleau, coeditor of Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues
and Local Experiences As environmental issues become increasingly
prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international
policies, scholars are paying more attention to conventional
politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and
difference in the interactions between human groups and their
biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the
relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged
at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This
volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research
models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.
Pointing to the entangled relationship between humans, politics,
economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first
century, opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and
practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. The
twelve case studies that follow explore sites located around the
world as they describe uses of and conflicts over resources
including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge,
and information. Susan Paulson is the director of Latin American
studies and an associate professor of anthropology at Miami
University. Lisa Gezon is an associate professor and chair of the
department of anthropology at the State University of West Georgia.
Territorio y genero son fenomenos historicos y geograficos: sus
expresiones materiales e institucionales cambian con el tiempo y el
espacio, mientras sus manifestaciones moldean la forma en que las
personas perciben y actuan en cada contexto. Este libro analiza las
interacciones entre los sistemas de genero y los procesos
historicos en America Latina durante los ultimos 25 anos, sobre la
base de varios estudios territoriales ubicados dentro de las
tendencias nacionales y regionales. Propone una nueva
conceptualizacion del genero como un sistema sociocultural que
estructura e impregna de significado y poder las practicas y las
relaciones humanas, y que influye en el desarrollo institucional y
en la gestion de los recursos, todo con referencia simbolica al
sexo y a la sexualidad. Con el fin de construir un acercamiento mas
sistemico, el libro promueve un mayor interes por los cambios
radicales que afectan a los hombres en formas diferentes que a las
mujeres, asi como a los roles que juegan las normas y las
expectativas masculinas en el cambio socioambiental.
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