WATER AND ARSENIC IN BANGLADESH
WATER AND ARSENIC IN BANGLADESH
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孟加拉国的水和砷
DOI:
10.1212/wnl.58.6.987-a
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
9.9
通讯作者:
F. Sultana
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作者:
F. Sultana
Feminist scholarship has enriched political ecology and resources management literatures by attesting to the central importance of gender relations in resource struggles of various kinds across places (Agarwal, 1992; Rocheleau et al., 1996). Recent work builds on this contribution by demonstrating that gender is performed and negotiated through such struggles while involving power relations that condition bodies, spaces and environments (Gururani, 2002; Harris, 2006; Resurreccion and Elmhirst, 2008; Sultana, 2009a). This scholarship renders a complex picture – notably showing how gender-related subjectivities are negotiated and embodied through social processes and ecological practices while intersecting with other subject positions, such as class, race, age or caste. How gender shapes access to, control over and ownership of resources across different subjectivities and geographical locations has been a key theme in feminist political ecology. The present chapter argues that this research sub-field can be further strengthened by assessing the complex emotional geographies that inform resource management. Such a focus helps to elucidate the conspicuous but also hidden ways that this management can be conceived of as an emotional process defining everyday life. This connection has been scarcely made in feminist political ecology, let alone in the wider research field of which it is part. Yet the emotional geographies literature abounds with insights that are just waiting to be adapted to the topics addressed in political ecology (e.g. Bondi, 2005; Davidson et al., 2005; Pile, 2010; Sharp, 2009; Smith et al., 2009). In this chapter, I promote such a process by outlining some of the elements of an emotional political ecology approach. In so doing, I demonstrate the importance of heeding the complex emotions and meanings attached to resource access, use and conflict in order to better understand the emotionality thereby engaged in everyday struggles. Not only does this lead to greater nuance in understanding resources struggles and politics; it also rejects the idea that ‘real’ scholarship is about ‘rational’ social interactions over resources that leaves emotive realities about how resources are accessed, used and fought over firmly to one side. Indeed, (feminist) political ecology will be immeasurably strengthened when often abstract articulations of ‘resource struggles’ and ‘resource conflicts’ are grounded in embodied emotional geographies of places, peoples and resources, enabling enhanced comprehension of how resources and emotions intermingle in everyday resource management practices. An emotional political ecology approach thus elucidates how emotions matter in nature–society relations. How are emotions to be understood in such an endeavor? Work on emotional geographies provides a useful starting-point here. Davidson et al. (2005: 3) define emotional geography as one that ‘attempts to understand emotion – experientially and conceptually – in terms of its socio-spatial mediation and articulation rather than as
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Allan H. Smith;Elena O Lingas;Mahfuzar Rahman
通讯作者:
Allan H. Smith;Elena O Lingas;Mahfuzar Rahman