Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development

Voices from Feminist Political Ecology
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8153-8612-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments

This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development.

Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book’s editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals – specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points – deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future.

This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and women’s studies more broadly.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Resurrección, Bernadette P.

Resurrección, Bernadette

Elmhirst, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Politics of Identity and Boundary Marking 1. Strategic Reflexivity in Linking Gender Equality with Sustainable Energy 2. Is Epistemic Authority Masculine? 3. Epistemic Crossings of a Marine Biologist through Gender Encounters 4. Beyond the Business Case for Gender 5. Challenges and Dilemmas of Integrating Gender in the Field of Environment and Development at SEI Part 2: The Politics of Knowledge in Environment and Development Realms 6. The Politics of Feminist Translation in Water Management 7. Embodied Engagement with Gender and Agrobiodiversity 8. Please Genderise My Log Frame 9. The Gender Professional as Ethnographer 10. Disaster Risk Governance and Gender Professionals 11. Lifting the Barriers of Gender Integration in Livestock Production 12. We Build the Power in Empowerment Part 3: The Power of Gender Champions 13. Supporting Gender Experts 14. Gender Equality Work At USAID

Über Autor(innen)

Bernadette P. Resurrección is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, and formerly was a Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton, UK.