Agricultural diversification and dietary diversity: A feminist political ecology of the everyday experiences of landless and smallholder households in northern Ghana

This chapter applies a feminist political ecology lens to episodes of climate change-related water insecurity in three Southeast Asian peri-urban area sites affected by flooding, water shortages, and pollution induced by long dry spells and heavy precipitation. It presents highlights from a 3-year research project that examined the everyday lives of women as they “deal with water” in the context of increasing water pollution, water scarcity, and flooding compounded by neoliberal socioeconomic conditions. These accounts illustrate how in water- and climate-change contexts, the neoliberal logics of privatization, commercialization, and reified separation between “the natural” and “the social” engage closely with emotions and intersectional gender subjectivities. The use of a feminist political ecology lens offers more holistic and grounded ways of probing into people’s experiences of climate-related water insecurity and stresses, aspects of which are often missed: gendered violence, hierarchies of place, affect, and insecurity in everyday life.

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A feminist political ecology of agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labor dynamics in northern Ghana

Gender Technology and Development ◽

10.1080/09718524.2019.1687799 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 207-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga ◽

Roger Antabe ◽

Yujiro Sano ◽

Sarah Mason-Renton ◽

Isaac Luginaah

Keyword(s):

Political Ecology ◽

Northern Ghana ◽

Farm Labor ◽

Feminist Political Ecology ◽

Agricultural Mechanization ◽

Labor Dynamics ◽

On Farm

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Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19

Frontiers in Human Dynamics ◽

10.3389/fhumd.2021.648464 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Marlene Gómez Becerra ◽

Eunice Muneri-Wangari

Keyword(s):

Political Ecology ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Feminist Political Ecology ◽

Pastoral Community ◽

Feminist Literature ◽

The Everyday ◽

Community Kitchens ◽

Typology Of Care ◽

The City

We argue that the COVID-19 virus has been a trigger for emerging practices of care by being an actor with agency that transforms the everyday life of subjects by placing them under uncertainty. Therefore, this paper aims to show how practices of care emerged or were maintained as vulnerable groups were confronted by restrictions to movement and uncertainties following the outbreak of COVID-19. We demonstrate this using two case studies of the Maasai pastoral community in Narok, Kenya and the community kitchens in the city of Berlin, Germany. Thus, we seek to show how practices of care for, care about, and care with are carried out by the members of these communities during pandemic times. Granted that care remains highly contentious in feminist literature, this paper contributes to a growing body of literature on care in Feminist Political Ecology by broadening the conceptualization of care. The research builds on a typology of care relations based on practices of distribution, exchange, and reciprocity. This allows us to show when care is exercised in a unidirectional and hierarchical way and when in a multidirectional way reinforcing social bonds of responsibility and collective care that transcends the socio-nature boundaries.

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Restricting spatial lives? The gendered implications of conservation in Cambodia’s protected wetlands

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space ◽

10.1177/2514848619827736 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 73-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicola Perry ◽

Josephine Gillespie

Keyword(s):

Political Ecology ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

Conservation Areas ◽

Feminist Political Ecology ◽

Geographic Thought ◽

Legal Geography ◽

Environmental Interactions ◽

Tonle Sap ◽

Gendered Roles

Environmental conservation through the creation of protected areas is recognised as a key tactic in the fight against degrading ecosystems worldwide. Understanding the implications of protected area regimes on both places and people is an important part of the protection agenda. In this context and in this paper, we build on the work of feminist legal geographers and feminist political ecologists to enhance our understanding of the constitution of localised socio-legal-environmental interactions in and around protected areas. Our approach looks to developments in feminist and legal geographic thought to examine the interactions between identities, law and the environment in a Ramsar protected wetland on the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. We bring together legal geography perspectives regarding the spatiality of law with insights from feminist political ecology examining gendered roles and exclusions. We found that conservation areas interact in complex ways with local pre-existing norms prescribing female weakness and vulnerability which, ultimately, restrict women’s spatial lives.

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Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447331315.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Meredith Dale ◽

Josefine Heusinger ◽

Birgit Wolter

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Urban Transformation ◽

Economic Interests ◽

Political Processes ◽

Socially Disadvantaged ◽

The Everyday ◽

Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽

Everyday Experiences ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Chapter 5 examines the impact of gentrification processes in Berlin, Germany, on the distribution of older people across the city as well as the everyday experiences of ageing in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter concludes with an overview of developments in the context of political processes, where urban transformation driven by economic interests generates growing conflict and contradiction with the needs of an ageing and increasingly less affluent population.

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Collaborative working practices: Imagining better research partnerships

Research for All ◽

10.18546/rfa.01.2.08 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 310-322 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Zanib Rasool

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Research ◽

Social Research ◽

Funds Of Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Gap ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

The Everyday ◽

Collaborative Working ◽

Working Practices ◽

Everyday Experiences

Collaborative research can bring communities to the heart of social research and provide a lens on the everyday experiences of ordinary people living extraordinary lives, capturing the funds of knowledge held in communities that exist outside the corridors of education institutions. If delivered in an ethical way, co-production can empower communities and elevate voices that traditionally have been on the margins. Through collaboration, we can bridge the knowledge gap that exists between communities and universities and raise community aspirations.

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Soldier photography: visualising the war in Iraq

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210509990209 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 817-833 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

LIAM KENNEDY

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Visual Communication ◽

The Internet ◽

Photographic Images ◽

Historical Significance ◽

The Everyday ◽

War In Iraq ◽

Digital Generation ◽

Everyday Experiences ◽

The Way

AbstractThis article focuses on the production and dissemination of photographic images by serving US soldiers in Iraq who are photographing their experiences and posting them on the Internet. This form of visual communication – in real time and communal – is new in the representation of warfare; in earlier wars soldiers took photographs, but these were not immediately shared in the way websites can disseminate images globally. This digital generation of soldiers exist in a new relationship to their experience of war; they are now potential witnesses and sources within the documentation of events, not just the imaged actors – a blurring of roles that reflects the correlations of revolutions in military and media affairs. This photography documents the everyday experiences of the soldiers and its historical significance may reside less in the controversial or revelatory images but in more mundane documentation of the environments, activities and feelings of American soldiery at war.

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