Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender, Pastoralism, and Intensification: Changing Patterns of Resource Management in Morocco

斯坦曼，苏珊娜H克拉克大学 博士论文研究将探讨妇女的资源管理做法如何影响和应对与摩洛哥东部半干旱草原的牧区定居化和农牧集约化有关的生态和社会经济变化。 在这一地区，更密集的放牧和耕作方式有助于维持不断增长的人口。 实地工作将包括在Tendrara镇收集原始人种学数据，这是一个定居的贝尼吉尔游牧民族的村庄。 对150名最近定居的牧区妇女进行的问卷调查将阐明资源管理的性别模式如何塑造和应对定居化。 这项研究将力求了解生态和经济变化如何影响妇女获得、控制和了解动物和自然资源。 一个主要目标是调查不同性别的利益、活动和知识如何适应这些变化并影响土地使用决定。 财富排名、资源分布图、生活史和对女性的非正式采访将对定量数据起到补充作用。 这项工作至关重要，因为它提供了目前缺乏的关于土地使用变化、性别和环境之间相互关系的知识。

Steinmann, Susanne H Clark University The doctoral dissertation research will examine how women's resource management practices affect and respond to ecological and socio-economic changes associated with pastoral sedentarization and agro-pastoral intensification on the semi-arid steppe of eastern Morocco. In this region more intensive herding and farming practices help sustain a growing human population. Fieldwork will involve primary ethnographic data collection in the town of Tendrara, a village of settled Beni Guil nomads. A questionnaire survey of 150 recently settled pastoral women will illuminate how gendered patterns of resource management shape and respond to sedentarization. The study will seek to learn how ecological and economic changes affect women's access to, control over, and knowledge about animal and natural resources. A major objective is to investigate the ways in which gender-specific interests, activities and knowledge adjust to these changes and influence land use decisions. Wealth ranking, resource mapping, life histories, and informal interviews of women will complement the quantitative data. This work is critical for it provides knowledge, now lacking, of the interrelationships between land use change, gender, and environment.