Browsing by Author "Rocheleau, Dianne"
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- Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology PerspectiveRocheleau, Dianne; Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Wangari, Esther (New York, NY: Routledge, 1996)Feminist political ecology is a feminist approach to political ecology, where gender becomes a main category analysis in relation to understanding how decision-making practices and socio-political forces influence environmental laws and issues, as well as access to and control over resources. This chapter discusses the relationship between gender, environment, and development, arguing that men and women have different environmental concerns and experience environmental issues differently because of gender roles.
- Gendered resource mapping: Focusing on women's spaces in the landscapeRocheleau, Dianne; Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Edmunds, D. (Cambridge, 1994)In smallholder farming communities, women and men have access and control of different natural resources and specific ecological knowledge. However, local males or researchers are allowing for women's spaces and natural resources to be removed or controlled. These actions are often disempowering for women's economic and social power in smallholder communities. Based on this viewpoint, this article discusses how researchers can use participatory qualitative and "geometric" mapping resources to map gendered differences in the landscape to determine how to implement gender-equal conservation agriculture plans. According to the authors, previous resource maps have failed to accurately create maps from multiple social and physical perspectives. The preliminary methods of determining "gendered space and place" involve gender-separate or community-based meetings, focus group interviews, transect walks, participatory mapping, analysis of economic income, and identifying gendered crop and vegetation spaces. The authors suggest researchers draw "countermaps" with community members, focusing on conveying space or natural resources that show gender use. For example, a "lowland rice field" becomes a "lowland rice fields with hedges for goat fodder" (showing a resource women use). These maps could specifically focus on mapping women's knowledge, space, and privileges and emphasize conflict areas with men. This type of participatory mapping has shown to be successful for both community members and researchers.
- Women, men and trees: Gender, power and property in forest and agrarian landscapesRocheleau, Dianne; Edmunds, David (Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd, 1997)This paper is based on fieldwork, case studies, and on African literature review. The article analyzes the "gendered nature" of resource use and access to trees and forests. "Two-dimensional" maps are a limited representation of gendered labour, knowledge, places, and social organizations. These are complex overlapping intersects with historical, social, and environmental constraints. Legal rights and defacto rights can differ from control over resources. The author uses a multidimensional approach to analyze the use of trees, and forest tenure in Africa from three angles: 1) rights to own land; 2) control or management of spaces and places; and 3) differences in use of trees and their products. These factors also vary according to season, periodic events, kin relationships, and neighbourliness reciprocity. Land might be owned by a man, the woman might have access to some trees that she can only collect fuelwood and fruits, but only during the wet season. Often control belongs to the men, responsibility to provide products, and labour input belongs to the women.