What role do gender equality and democracy have in processes of environmental governance and the attainment of sustainable development?
This multidisciplinary course provides students, researchers and practitioners workin g in the fields of environment and development studies with ge nder sensitive tools and skills necessary to understand issues of gender and power in their area of work and to carry out successful research and program development in natural resource management, agriculture and development.
The course will
1) Introduce you to gender issues in and explore interconnections between gender, environmental governance and development in multiple contexts and spaces.
2 ) Provide you with methods and tools for power and gender analysis in an increasingly interconnected and world and
3) Allow you to focus on a project in course discussions that is directly related to your resear ch and area of work.
Preparatory reading: September 10 – 23
Lectures and group discussions (September 24 – 28) will be held on:
1. Gender, Nature and Science
2. Feminist approaches to the environment: eco-feminism, feminist environmentalism, political ecology, women and development etc.)
3. Gender, identity, class, ethnicity and the production of material spaces
4. Neoliberal environments, gender and globalization
5. Environmental policy making and gender.
6. Research methods in gender sensitive research, development and resource management
To register for the course and for more information, contact: Seema Arora-Jonsson
Seema.Arora.Jonsson@slu.se
018-67 11 92
Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods in International Development (NRML) Research School