Environment, Knowledge and Gender: Local Development in India's Jharkhand (King's SOAS Studies in Development Geography) - Hardcover

Jewitt, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754616541 ISBN 13: 9780754616542

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002

Synopsis

Tracing global shifts in development thinking through to national level policy-making in India and its local scale implications, Sarah Jewitt employs detailed empirical data to investigate the practical value of radical populist and eco-feminist alternatives to more mainstream forms of development. The book: intervenes in gender-environment debates with reference to place-specific empirical evidence; provides a sustained critique of romanticized populist and eco-feminist approaches to rural development; critiques the romanticization of women's supposedly innate link with nature; emphasizes the socio-cultural as well as the practical importance of forests to local people; and reveals the contextually embedded but temporally fluid nature of environmental decision-making and knowledge distribution by gender, class and community.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754616541
• ISBN 13: 9780754616542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400