Environment, Knowledge and Gender

Local Development in India's Jharkhand

von Sarah Jewitt

382 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This title was first published in 2002: Tracing global shifts in development thinking through to national-level policy making in India and its local-scale implications, Sarah Jewitt investigates the practical value of radical populist and eco-feminist alternatives to more mainstream forms of development. Using detailed empirical data on forests and agriculture from two adivasi (tribal) villages in India, she takes a micro-political ecology approach to examine inter- and intra-community (especially gender) variations in environmental knowledge, resource management strategies and development aspirations. Critiquing the adoption of romanticized eco-feminist discourse in policymaking, Jewitt studies the Jharkhand region of Bihar, India, to determine women's contribution to environmental degradation and how the implementation of environmentally-oriented development initiatives affects their daily lives. She also examines the populist concern about the displacement of traditional agro-ecological practices by modern techniques, and illustrates the need to understand local people's socio-cultural beliefs and aspirations as well as their technical knowledge when seeking to promote more appropriate development.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geographie Regionale Geographie
• ISBN: 9781138739802
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)