Gender Analysis and Environmentalisms

Jackson, Cecile (1994) Gender Analysis and Environmentalisms. In: Social Theory and the Global Environment. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-11170-6

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Abstract

The coupling of women and environment in development discourses, popular, academic and practical, has created an illusion of gender awareness. Yet women and gender are, of course, distinct, and this chapter aims to examine this illusion more closely. I focus on assumptions about women and environments but also raise the wider question of coercion in environmental management and regulation. A secondary theme of this chapter is to query the adequacy of the view that poverty is the cause of environmentally unfriendly behaviour. This leads to assumptions that poverty alleviation will result in more positive environmental management, and that therefore development and conservation are inherently compatible. A gender perspective, however, suggests that environmental behaviour is also formed by other social relations which can disrupt such an equation. It also suggests that environmental conservation is frequently predicated upon social inequality.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics (former - to 2017)
Related URLs:	http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9...
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2011 14:03
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2023 14:56
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33836
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