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

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-233 ◽  
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

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
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.

La lucha socioambiental de proyectos alternativos. El caso del cerdo pelón en Yucatán

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Edith Pereyra de la Rorsa ◽  
Francisco Iván Hernández Cuevas ◽  
Diana Estefanía Castillo Loeza ◽  
Mauricio Feliciano López Barreto ◽  
Javier Becerril García
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Active Resistance ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Biocultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Positive Results

In the Mayan rural communities in the Yucatan peninsula alternative social projects have been implemented by different actors, which focus on the promotion and production of the local pork species known as cerdo pelón. This represents an alternative to the conventional industrialized pork breeding, mainly for profitability. Through a feminist political ecology lens, and an ethnographic methodology, findings reveal that these alternative projects have given way to an active resistance with positive results in the inclusion, in food security among participants and in the revaluation of traditional practices. The article recommends that social projects prioritize the inclusion of women and the promotion of local biocultural heritage.

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