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The Earthscan reader on gender and forests / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlène Elias, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Susan Stevens Hummel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Earthscan reader seriesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Description: xxiii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138231580 (hbk.)
  • 9781138231597 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 634.9 COL 23 012269
Contents:
1. Introduction to Gender and Forests: Themes, Contents and GapsCarol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlene Elias, Susan Hummel and Bimbika Sijapati BasnettPart 1: Global Conceptual, Epistemological and Methodological Analyses2. Earth Mother Myths and other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell Melissa Leach3. In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World Louise Fortmann4. On Communication Among 'Unequals'Carol J. Pierce Colfer5. Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism in Two Forest Communities in India and SwedenSeema Arora-JonssonPart 2: Knowledge, Community Forestry and Grouping in South Asia6. A Feminist in the Forest: Situated Knowledges and Mixing Methods in Natural Resource ManagementAndrea Nightingale7. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South AsiaBina AgarwalPart 3: Agroforestry, Tenure and Conceptual Framing in Africa8. Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/orchardsRichard A. Schroeder9. African Shea Butter: A Feminized Subsidy from NatureMarlene Elias and Judith CarneyPart 4: Conjugal Relations, Migration, and Forest-based Livelihoods in Southeast Asia10. Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property, and Power in Conjugal RelationsTania Li11. Migrant Pathways to Resource Access in Lampung's Political Forest: Gender, Citizenship and Creative ConjugalityRebecca Elmhirst Part 5: Forested Landscapes and Farming in Latin America 12. Masculine and Feminine Exchanges Working to (Re)Produce or Degrade Andean Silvopasture SystemsSusan Paulson13. Trees as Tools, Trees as Text: Struggles over Resources in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican RepublicDianne Rocheleau and Laurie RossPart 6: A Glimpse of Gender Systems in `the North'14. Marginality and Gender at Work in Forestry Communities of British Columbia, Canada Maureen G. Reed15. The Politics of Invasive Weed Management: Gender, Race, and Risk Perception in Rural CaliforniaKari M. NorgaardPart 7: Learning and Building on the Classics16. Concluding Reflections for the Future Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlene Elias, Susan Stevens Hummel and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
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"Earthscan from Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to Gender and Forests: Themes, Contents and GapsCarol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlene Elias, Susan Hummel and Bimbika Sijapati BasnettPart 1: Global Conceptual, Epistemological and Methodological Analyses2. Earth Mother Myths and other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell Melissa Leach3. In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World Louise Fortmann4. On Communication Among 'Unequals'Carol J. Pierce Colfer5. Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism in Two Forest Communities in India and SwedenSeema Arora-JonssonPart 2: Knowledge, Community Forestry and Grouping in South Asia6. A Feminist in the Forest: Situated Knowledges and Mixing Methods in Natural Resource ManagementAndrea Nightingale7. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South AsiaBina AgarwalPart 3: Agroforestry, Tenure and Conceptual Framing in Africa8. Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/orchardsRichard A. Schroeder9. African Shea Butter: A Feminized Subsidy from NatureMarlene Elias and Judith CarneyPart 4: Conjugal Relations, Migration, and Forest-based Livelihoods in Southeast Asia10. Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property, and Power in Conjugal RelationsTania Li11. Migrant Pathways to Resource Access in Lampung's Political Forest: Gender, Citizenship and Creative ConjugalityRebecca Elmhirst Part 5: Forested Landscapes and Farming in Latin America 12. Masculine and Feminine Exchanges Working to (Re)Produce or Degrade Andean Silvopasture SystemsSusan Paulson13. Trees as Tools, Trees as Text: Struggles over Resources in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican RepublicDianne Rocheleau and Laurie RossPart 6: A Glimpse of Gender Systems in `the North'14. Marginality and Gender at Work in Forestry Communities of British Columbia, Canada Maureen G. Reed15. The Politics of Invasive Weed Management: Gender, Race, and Risk Perception in Rural CaliforniaKari M. NorgaardPart 7: Learning and Building on the Classics16. Concluding Reflections for the Future Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlene Elias, Susan Stevens Hummel and Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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