Dear colleagues and friends,
we warmly invite you to submitt a paper proposal to our panel: *Gender
and environmental change. Taking stock and looking into the future at
the easa conference 2016.
*The Call for Papers is now open and will close on *February 15th,
2016*. Please submitt your paper proposals via the link of our panel page.
All the best,
Kristina Großmann and Michaela Haug
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4251
*EASA2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures*
*14th EASA Biennial Conference*
*Anthropological legacies and human futures*
*Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and
Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca*
*20-23 July, 2016*
**
*Panel:*(P126)
Gender and environmental change. Taking stock and looking into the future
*Convenors*
Kristina Großmann (University Passau)
Michaela Haug (University of Cologne)
*Short Abstract*
Environmental change can have huge impacts on gender relations, which
are framed by diverse concepts and theories. We invite contributions
that include analysis of recent empirical work and/or focus more
generally on theoretical considerations on the nexus of gender and nature.
*Long Abstract*
Environmental change as the increasing exploitation of natural resources
leads to far reaching transformations of the environment and local
livelihoods. All these transformations (re)produce in manifold ways
economic, political and social inequalities. Men and women sometimes
possess different environmental knowledge, gender plays a crucial role
for determining access to and control over natural resources in some
societies and it often influences how men and women get incorporated
into new labor systems. Environmental change and related changes of
traditional economic systems and social structures can thus lead to new
(self)concepts of gender identities, gender roles, work activities,
control, responsibilities, inclusions and exclusions of men and women.
The gender-nature-culture nexus has long been a major concern in
Anthropology. Ecofeminist approaches, meanwhile heavily criticized in
academia but still prevalent in the field of practice, related the
oppression of women and the exploitation of nature to
patriarchal-capitalistic domination. Researches focusing on female power
centers and masculinities contrast this perception of the universal and
essential oppression of women. Feminist Political Ecology broadens the
scope of analyses on global and local power relations, the increasing
commodification of natural resources and seeks to elaborate the role and
agency of women. In the wake of the constructivist turn, nature and
bodies are seen as products of discourses and materiality has become
extremely volatile. Inspired by an increasing academic interest in
materiality in recent years, the materiality of natural products and
male/female bodies are more and more included in current research on
environmental change.
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