Gendered practices and landscapes in the Andes: The shape of asymmetrical exchanges

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dc.contributor.authorPaulson, Sally L.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialLatin Americaen
dc.coverage.spatialBoliviaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis book chapter is a case study of the relationship between erosion of the mid-watershed slopes and socio-economic factors in high land Bolivia in the 1980s-1990s. Using political ecology, this case study explores the practices and processes that influence gendered practices in agriculture, cooking, and livestock management and how these gendered practices shape social and environmental landscapes. This chapter also discusses how commercial agricultural practices at the local, regional, and global level influence and change landscapes and social identities throughout time and space. The author uses three key approaches in the methodology: 1) participatory research methods (participatory mapping, transect walks) that explore local knowledge and ecological practices; 2) multi-scale views of connections between urban, rural, national, and international markets; and 3) power dynamics that influence differences and similarities in gender, social, and economic processes. Research has shown how management practices in cultivated and non-cultivated areas influence gender-based constraints, social inequality, and environmental degradation. This chapter identifies how women's access to non-cultivated areas (slopes) is diminishing, contributing to erosion, the loss of food quality and native plants, and fewer economic opportunities.en
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dc.identifier4725en
dc.identifier.isbn0-8135-3478-Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68961en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherRutgers University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Paulson, S. and L. Gezon. (eds.). Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups, 174-195en
dc.relation.urihttp://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Political_Ecology_across_Spaces__Scales__and_Socia_1413.htmlen
dc.relation.urihttp://books.google.com/books?id=PL8r8B7-RJEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Political+Ecology+across+Spaces,+Scales,+and+Social+Groups&source=bl&ots=Lg5qDhRFen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright Rutgers, The State University of New Jerseyen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectSoil qualityen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectLivestock managementen
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectEnvironmental degradationen
dc.subjectPerceptionsen
dc.subjectBoliviaen
dc.subjectLatin americaen
dc.subjectCommercial agricultureen
dc.subjectSocial discourseen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Watersheden
dc.titleGendered practices and landscapes in the Andes: The shape of asymmetrical exchangesen
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