Gender, Development and Environmental Governance: Theorizing Connections

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

Sweden) Seema (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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.