Gender, Development and Environmental Governance: Theorizing Connections

ISBN-13: 9780415629614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 286 str.

Seema Arora-Jonsson

Opis

This title questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Three Places and a Jigsaw World  2. Crafting New Relations and Theorizing Connections: Gender, Development and Environmental Governance  3. Policy Discourses 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: Discourses 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

O autorze

Seema Arora-Jonsson is Associate Professor in the Department of Rural and Urban Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.