Women and the Collective: Managing South Asia’s Forests and Farms
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| Description: | International Balzan Prizewinner 2017, Professor Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester is the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor for the Michaelmas Term 2018. Professor Agarwal's Visiting Professorship Lecture, 'Women and the Collective: Managing South Asia’s Forests and Farms' was held at the Divinity School, St. John’s College, on Wednesday 10 October 2018. |
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| Created: | 2018-11-08 13:56 |
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| Collection: | University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Joanna Bush |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Agarwal; Middlebrook; Djerassi; Women; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 |
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| Abstract: | Women’s relationship with collectives is complex. On the one hand, historically, they were largely excluded from mixed gender collectives—parliaments, village councils, or community institutions of governance—and recent inclusions are often due to gender quotas. On the other hand, women have frequently led social movements, and all-women collectives are widely promoted for social empowerment. Both types of collectives raise questions. In mixed gender collectives, what proportion of women would be effective? In all-women groups, should homogeneity be promoted for better cooperation or heterogeneity for the benefits of diversity? And is the power of numbers enough, or is a gendered consciousness essential for impact? In her lecture Professor Agarwal addresses these questions, based on her primary surveys of collectives in South Asia: one of community members managing local forests (a common pool resource), the other of women farming in groups on private land. Eschewing the much beaten narrative of women’s exclusion, she examines the little-examined impact of their inclusion. Can such inclusion enhance forest conservation in the one case, and farm productivity in the other? |
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