Contribution to Book
Gender, the Household, and Land Change in Southeastern Mexico
Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability: Synergies and divergences
(2013)
Abstract
In this chapter, we consider how expectations and micro-politics of gender can shape land change through decision-making processes at the household level. We also consider how land change in turn can have varying outcomes for individual household members. Finally, we consider how households are not uniform agents of land change. As such, we demonstrate how working across the boundaries of land change science (LCS) and feminist political ecology (FPE) can lead to new understandings of the role of particular social relations and institutions (in our case, gender) in processes of land change, and in human outcomes resulting from those land changes. To illustrate these points, we draw on our research in communities surrounding the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Mexico (Figure 6.1).
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Editor
Christian Brannstrom and Jacqueline M. Vadjunec
Publisher
Routledge : Taylor and Francis Group
Citation Information
Claudia Radel. "Gender, the Household, and Land Change in Southeastern Mexico" Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability: Synergies and divergences (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/claudia_radel/25/