'Cooking is for everyone?': Exploring the complexity of gendered dynamics in a cookstove intervention study in rural Malawi.
'Cooking is for everyone?': Exploring the complexity of gendered dynamics in a cookstove intervention study in rural Malawi.
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DOI：
10.1080/16549716.2021.2006425
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发表时间：
2021-12-06
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Tolhurst R
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作者：
Ardrey J;Jehan K;Desmond N;Kumbuyo C;Mortimer K;Tolhurst R
明火烹饪造成的家庭空气污染 (HAP) 与妇女和女童的严重健康不良（包括慢性呼吸道疾病）有关，并被认为是导致气候变化的一个因素。有人建议，更清洁的燃烧炉灶可以减轻这些风险，而通过更快的烹饪节省的时间可以赋予妇女经济权力。尽管炉灶具有这些和其他潜在优势，但持续使用仍然很难实现。我们使用定性方法（焦点小组、访谈、观察）和参与式方法 Photovoice，以便更深入地了解马拉维农村烹饪和肺炎研究 (CAPS) 中的性别社会关系。超过 5 个 CAPS 村庄招募了 40 名女性和 10 名男性来参加 Photovoice 活动，包括图像收集、村级焦点小组讨论和访谈。数据还通过对村庄社区代表的访谈收集。这项研究促进了对特定背景下的性别家庭角色和权力关系的丰富探索，发现看似根深蒂固的“传统”家庭责任存在争议的空间。结果表明，通过 CAPS 引入炉灶成为了这场争论的焦点。显然，男人和儿童也会做饭，而且烹饪在儿童的性别社会化中发挥着核心作用。然而，没有迹象表明节省的时间能够赋予妇女权力。我们的研究结果表明，关于性别与炉灶之间联系的主流叙述往往是简化的，未能反映性别权力关系的复杂性。使用结合 Photovoice 的定性方法有助于促进对炉灶使用的另一种“自下而上”观点，这表明虽然炉灶可能会扰乱目标社区的性别关系，但不能假设对妇女和女孩产生积极影响。
Household air pollution (HAP) resulting from cooking on open fires has been linked to considerable ill-health in women and girls, including chronic respiratory diseases, and has been identified as a contributor to climate change. It has been suggested that cleaner burning cookstoves can mitigate these risks, and that time saved through speedier cooking can lead to the economic empowerment of women. Despite these and other potential advantages of cookstoves, sustained use is difficult to achieve. We used qualitative methods (focus groups, interviews, observation) and the participatory methodology Photovoice in order to inform a deeper understanding of gendered social relationships within the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) in rural Malawi. Over five CAPS villages, forty women and ten men were recruited for Photovoice activities, including image collection, village-level focus group discussion and interviews. Data were also collected from interviews with village-based community representatives. This study facilitated a rich exploration of context-specific gendered household roles and power relations which found that there was space for contestation in seemingly entrenched and ‘traditional’ household responsibilities. The results suggest that the introduction of cookstoves through CAPS provided a focus for this contestation. It was evident that men and children also cooked, and that cooking played a central role in the gendered socialisation of children. However, there were no indications that time saved resulted in the empowerment of women. Our findings suggest that dominant narratives of the links between gender and cookstoves are often reductive and fail to reflect the complexity of gender power relations. The use of qualitative methods incorporating Photovoice helped to facilitate an alternative ‘bottom-up’ view of cookstove use which demonstrated that while cookstoves may disrupt gendered relationships in target communities, positive impacts for women and girls cannot be assumed.
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