Gender, development and environmental management [electronic resource] : theorizing connections / Seema Arora-Jonsson.

By: Arora-Jonsson, SeemaMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge research in gender and society ; 33.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2013. Description: xiv, 272 p. : illISBN: 9780203106808 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Natural resources -- Management | Women in development | Environmental policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.

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1. Introduction : three places and a jigsaw world -- 2. Crafting new relations and theorizing connections : gender, development and environmental governance -- 3. Policy discources and material places : forests, gender and the (re)making of the peripheries -- 4. Environmental politics on the ground -- 5. A politics of the possible : gendered subjectivities in collective organizing -- 6. Micropolitics of rural development and environmental governance : resistance, maintenance and outside intervention -- 7. Discordant connections : discources on gender and grassroots activism -- 8. Development practice and environmental governance : flexible spaces for political action -- 9. Conclusion : up close in a jigsaw world : guideposts from the present.

Summary: "A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels--villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others--and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book examines this challenge in two very disparate parts of our world, exploring what gender-equality, resource management and development mean in real terms for its inhabitants as well as for our environmental futures. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Insights from India, consistently ranked as one of the most gender-biased countries, are compared with similar situations in the ostensibly gender-equal Sweden. Arora-Jonsson also analyzes how dominant ideas about the environment, development and gender equality shape the spaces in which women and men take action through global discourses and grassroots activism.Questioning the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and more efficient environmental management, this volume scrutinizes how environmental imaginations are key to crafting gender relations. It shows gender to be at the heart of environmental negotiations while at the same time making a case for environmental sensibilities as integral to gender relations. At the confluence of development, environmental and gender studies, the book contributes to a much-needed dialogue between these fields, proposing new futures in environmental management. "-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-264) and index.

"A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels--villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others--and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book examines this challenge in two very disparate parts of our world, exploring what gender-equality, resource management and development mean in real terms for its inhabitants as well as for our environmental futures. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Insights from India, consistently ranked as one of the most gender-biased countries, are compared with similar situations in the ostensibly gender-equal Sweden. Arora-Jonsson also analyzes how dominant ideas about the environment, development and gender equality shape the spaces in which women and men take action through global discourses and grassroots activism.Questioning the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and more efficient environmental management, this volume scrutinizes how environmental imaginations are key to crafting gender relations. It shows gender to be at the heart of environmental negotiations while at the same time making a case for environmental sensibilities as integral to gender relations. At the confluence of development, environmental and gender studies, the book contributes to a much-needed dialogue between these fields, proposing new futures in environmental management. "-- Provided by publisher.

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