Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The GambiaUniversity of California Press, 01/10/1999 - 206 من الصفحات Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. In less than a decade, the women's incomes began outstripping their husbands' in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. Male landholders joined forestry personnel in attempts to displace the gardens and capture women's labor for the irrigation of male-controlled tree crops. This carefully documented microhistory draws on field experience spanning more than two decades and the insights of disciplines ranging from critical human geography to development studies. Schroeder combines the "success story" of the market gardens with a cautionary tale about the aggressive pursuit of natural resource management objectives, however well intentioned. He shows that questions of power and social justice at the community level need to enter the debates of policymakers and specialists in environment and development planning. |
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الصفحة iv
... husbands ' : Marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in The Gambia's female garden sector , ” Canadian Journal of African Studies 30 , 1 ( 1996 ) : 69–87 , and has been reprinted with permission . Excerpts of the following articles ...
... husbands ' : Marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in The Gambia's female garden sector , ” Canadian Journal of African Studies 30 , 1 ( 1996 ) : 69–87 , and has been reprinted with permission . Excerpts of the following articles ...
الصفحة vii
... Husbands : Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom 39 4. Better Homes and Gardens : The Social Relations of Vegetable Production 61 5. Branching into Old Territory : The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden / Orchards 78 6. Contesting ...
... Husbands : Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom 39 4. Better Homes and Gardens : The Social Relations of Vegetable Production 61 5. Branching into Old Territory : The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden / Orchards 78 6. Contesting ...
الصفحة xviii
... grain purchases for their households . Finally , I discovered that the gardens had generated disputes — between men as husbands and landholders and women as wives and gardeners- in several key domains : ( 1 ) gardens had. xviii Preface.
... grain purchases for their households . Finally , I discovered that the gardens had generated disputes — between men as husbands and landholders and women as wives and gardeners- in several key domains : ( 1 ) gardens had. xviii Preface.
الصفحة xix
... husbands during the early stages of the garden boom because it cut into the time women allocated to their domestic routines ; and ( 3 ) the incomes generated by gardeners had prompted considerable jealousy on the part of the women's hus ...
... husbands during the early stages of the garden boom because it cut into the time women allocated to their domestic routines ; and ( 3 ) the incomes generated by gardeners had prompted considerable jealousy on the part of the women's hus ...
الصفحة xx
... husbands were not co - resident , or they had assumed full financial responsibility for household finances due to their husbands ' advanced age or infirmity . Seventy - six male ground- nut growers who were married or otherwise ...
... husbands were not co - resident , or they had assumed full financial responsibility for household finances due to their husbands ' advanced age or infirmity . Seventy - six male ground- nut growers who were married or otherwise ...
المحتوى
1 Introduction | 1 |
A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women | 21 |
Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom | 39 |
The Social Relations of Vegetable Production | 61 |
The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden Orchards | 78 |
6 Contesting Agroforestry Interventions | 105 |
7 Shady Practices | 130 |
Notes | 137 |
Works Cited | 149 |
Index | 165 |
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Africa agricultural agroforestry agroforestry systems Al-Haji Banjul basis benefits Carney and Watts cash gifts cash-crop changes claims development agencies domestic donors drought dry season ecofeminism ecofeminist economic efforts environment farmers favor female labor feminist fence forest forestry funds garden boom garden districts garden group garden incomes garden perimeters gender groundnut grown horticultural household husbands initiatives interventions irrigation Jabara Kerewan garden land tenure livelihood loan located low-lying land Lower Baddibu male landholders Mandinka mango market garden material ment millet MMAP NGOs North Bank Division North Bank garden orchard Parpart percent policies political ecology practices response rice Rocheleau rural Gambia Sanyang Sanyang garden Schroeder sector Senegal shift social strategies survey tion tree crops tree planting United Nations Upper Baddibu USAID usufruct vegetable growers village Westview Press wives woman women gardeners women's group World Bank
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الصفحة xiii - UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development VORADEP Volta Region Agricultural Development Programme WDC Workers...
الصفحة 14 - ... by environmental degradation. At the same time, in the course of their everyday interactions with nature, they acquire a special knowledge of species varieties and the processes of natural regeneration. (This would include knowledge passed on to them by, for example, their mothers.) They could thus be seen as both victims of the destruction of nature and as repositories of knowledge about nature, in ways distinct from the men of their class. The former aspect would provide the gendered impulse...
الصفحة 13 - Feminist political ecology treats gender as a critical variable in shaping resource access and control, interacting with class, caste, race, culture, and ethnicity to shape processes of ecological change, the struggle of men and women to sustain ecologically viable livelihoods, and the prospects of any community for "sustainable development.
الصفحة 14 - ... knowledge passed on to them by, for example, their mothers.) They could thus be seen as both victims of the destruction of nature and as repositories of knowledge about nature, in ways distinct from the men of their class. The former aspect would provide the gendered impulse for their resistance and response to environmental destruction. The latter would condition their perceptions and choices of what should be done. Indeed, on the basis of their experiential understanding and knowledge, they...
الصفحة 14 - ... political structures within which these constructs are produced and transformed. Nor does it address the central issue of the means by which certain dominant groups (predicated on gender, class, etc.) are able to bring about ideological shifts in their own favour and how such shifts get entrenched, Fourth, the ecofeminist argument does not take into account women's lived material relationship with nature, as opposed to what others or they themselves might conceive that relationship to be. Fifth,...
الصفحة 14 - Third, even in the realm of ideological constructs, it says little (with the exception of Merchant's analysis) about the social, economic and political structures within which these constructs are produced and transformed. Nor does it address the central issue of the means by which certain dominant groups (predicated on gender, class, etc.) are able to bring about ideological shifts in their own favour and how such shifts get entrenched.
الصفحة 13 - Second, it locates the domination of women and of nature almost solely in ideology, neglecting the (inter-related) material sources of this dominance (based on economic advantage and Political power). Third, even in the realm of ideological constructs, it says little (with the exception of Merchant's analysis) about the social, economic and political structures within which these constructs are produced and transformed. Nor does it address the central issue...
الصفحة 13 - Arizpe 1993a and b; Thomas-Slayter 1992;Joekes 1995; Jackson 1985, 1995; Mackenzie 1995). This approach begins with the concern of the political ecologists who emphasize decision-making processes and the social, political, and economic context that shapes environmental policies and practices. Political ecologists have focused largely on the uneven distribution of access to and control over resources on the basis of class and ethnicity (Peet and Watts 1993). Feminist political ecology treats gender...