Gender and Forests
Title | Gender and Forests PDF eBook |
Author | Carol J. Pierce Colfer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2016-04-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317355660 |
This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.
Masculinities in Forests
Title | Masculinities in Forests PDF eBook |
Author | Carol J. Pierce Colfer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2020-09-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1000209822 |
Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how these relate to forest management. While forestry is widely considered a masculine domain, a significant portion of the literature on gender and development focuses on the role of women, not men. This book addresses this gap and also highlights how there are significant, demonstrable differences in masculinities from forest to forest. The book develops a simple conceptual framework for considering masculinities, one which both acknowledges the stability or enduring quality of masculinities, but also the significant masculinity-related options available to individual men within any given culture. The author draws on her own experiences, building on her long-term experience working globally in the conservation and development worlds, also observing masculinities among such professionals. The core of the book examines masculinities, based on long-term ethnographic research in the rural Pacific Northwest of the US; Long Segar, East Kalimantan; and Sitiung, West Sumatra, both in Indonesia. The author concludes by pulling together the various strands of masculine identities and discussing the implications of these various versions of masculinity for forest management. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of forestry, gender studies and conservation and development, as well as practitioners and NGOs working in these fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367815776, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The gender box: A framework for analysing gender roles in forest management
Title | The gender box: A framework for analysing gender roles in forest management PDF eBook |
Author | Carol J Pierce Colfer |
Publisher | CIFOR |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2013-01-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 6028693928 |
Recognising widespread uncertainty about how to address gender within the forestry world (from researchers, as well as natural resource, development and conservation practitioners), this paper strives to provide targeted guidance. We divide gender methods into three main approaches, based on the availability of resources. In the first section, we provide a brief discussion of theory and method. Then, after discussing some all-purpose methods, we classify methods loosely into categories of ‘quick and [more or less] dirty’; systematic ‘academic’ studies; and collaborative studies. We argue that although there is legitimate space for all three approaches, the last is the most likely to result in long-term and meaningful improvements in forests and human well being.
Women of the Forest
Title | Women of the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Yolanda Murphy |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231132329 |
One of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology, this book remains an important teaching tool on gender and life in the Amazon. Women of the Forest covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucu people of Brazil in 1952, taking into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting. The book features a new critical foreword written collectively by respected anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys.
Gender and Tribe
Title | Gender and Tribe PDF eBook |
Author | Govind Kelkar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Adivasis |
ISBN | 9788185107233 |
Making sense of ‘intersectionality’
Title | Making sense of ‘intersectionality’ PDF eBook |
Author | Colfer, C.J.P. |
Publisher | CIFOR |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2018-04-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 6023870694 |
The forestry sector has engaged with gender issues to the extent that including 'women' mattered for sustainable forest management and other forest-related goals. More recently, there has been a growing recognition that gender equality is a goal in its ow
Sustainable Development Goals
Title | Sustainable Development Goals PDF eBook |
Author | Pia Katila |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 653 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108486991 |
A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.