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Browsing by Author "Thomas-Slayter, Barbara"

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    Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective
    Rocheleau, 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 landscape
    Rocheleau, 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.
  • A Manual for Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis: Responding to the Development Challenge
    Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Polestico, R.; Esser, A. L.; Taylor, O.; Mutua, E. (Worcester, MA: Clark University. Ecology, Community Organization and Gender (ECOGEN), 1995)
    The Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis (SEGA) offers a valuable approach to address the constraints of equitable, effective, and sustainable development. It provides a series of participatory strategies and tools to empower the disadvantaged who seek livelihood security, basic human rights, and opportunity to participate fully in their society. Focused on organizing strategies, gathering information and raising awareness, identifying priorities, assessing needs, planning and formulating projects, and strategizing for change, these tools are accompanied by instructions and examples of implementation through a variety of development scenarios from around the world. The SEGA also offers strategies and indicators to measure program and project effectiveness. This conceptual framework is useful for policy makers, program and project organizers, and community organizers and project managers involved in development work.
  • Power, Process and Participation: Tools for Change
    (London, UK: Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) publishing, 1995)
    This manual offers a variety of innovative tools for facilitators from local communities, NGOs and public sector agencies to empower those who are frequently neglected in the decision-making processes to achieve community change. The book focuses on participatory approaches to development and how differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age, and status with particular interest in gender issues prevent the disadvantaged and disempowered from inclusion. The integration of applied and analytical methods combined with examples from field experience explore how multi-media tools can strengthen the impact of the other tools in consciousness-raising, data-gathering, advocacy, and community decision-making and action.
  • Southern Exposure: International Development and the Global South in the Twenty-First Century
    Thomas-Slayter, Barbara (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press Inc, 2003)
    Southern Exposure offers a unique perspective on the effects of globalization as experienced from ordinary people in the Global South. Gender and culture are kept at the forefront of Barbara Thomas-Slayter's issues-based approach as she explores critical issues such as AIDS, migration, food security, population growth, scarce resources, and environmental degradation. This text offers an insightful and comprehensive perspective on development approaches in the twenty-first century. Increasing poverty and inequality are two of the most pressing economic and political issues facing Southern countries in this global arena.
  • Sustainable investments: Women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa
    Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Sodikoff, G. (Routledge, 2001)
    The paper analysis five African case studies to answer some questions relating gender, livelihood security and sustainable environments. Men and women face different opportunities and constraints. The paper also identifies the conditions that allow effective involvement in natural resource management, and the development of indicators to clarify progress in terms of impact, process, and sustainability. Results suggest that if policy, programs, and projects are to encourage sustainable, effective, and equitable management of resources, they must focus on the concerns of locals and how they relate to the state, the economy, and the resource base. What is needed is to develop projects that are gender centered and focusing in capacity-building. The data supports the concept that women must play a major role in resource management decisions in order to achieve livelihood security and sustainable environments in Africa. The case studies highlight the importance of: 1. continuous collection, monitoring and evaluation of gender-disaggregated data. 2. Integrations of new technologies combined with gender-aware extension services and training. 3. Capacity building at the local level using local participation and organization, which helps strengthen projects and leads to their sustainability. 4. Impact on livelihood security. 5. Linkages and partnerships related to infrastructure, research, policy, training, and institution building can build project success.
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    Tools of Gender Analysis: A Guide to Field Methods for Bringing Gender into Sustainable Resource Management
    Thomas-Slayter, Barbara; Esser, Andrea Lee; Shields, M. Dale (Worchester, Mass.: Clark University, 1993)
    This guide was developed for the ECOGEN Research project, International Development Program, Clark University.