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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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Addressing the climate and care crisis
- 2022
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Ingår i: Stanford social innovation review. - 1542-7099 .- 2687-7872. ; , s. 5-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Blind spots in environmental policy-making: How beliefs about science and development may jeopardize environmental solutions
- 2017
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Ingår i: World Development Perspectives. - : Elsevier BV. - 2468-0532 .- 2452-2929. ; 5, s. 27-29
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Engaging with knowledges outside of western science and questions of power is increasingly being acknowledged as an imperative for helping solve intractable environmental problems. What is unacknowledged is the difference in how this is reasoning is applied in relation to policy-making in the global North and South. While questions of power such as gender and people’s participation are integral to international policy-making in the Northern development policies for the South, there is often little on these perspectives in domestic environmental policy-making. Underlying this paradox are assumptions about science and development in policy-making that preclude a discussion of environmental alternatives. These assumptions generate blind spots in environmental policy-making that need to be addressed so that environmental policy in the global North too is able to respond to environmental problems on the basis of evidence and rather than assumptions about science and about the rest of the world.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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Bortom den rätta frågan : Metodologiska innebörder av att forska tillsammans
- 2008
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Ingår i: Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum. - 0348-8365. ; :2, s. 33-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ställer det akademiska skrivandet krav som försvårar viss kunskapsutveckling? Seema Arora-Jonsson menar att deltagande aktionsforskning kräver nya förhållningssätt. När hon studerade kvinnor i glesbygd lät hon de analytiska kategorier växa fram tillsammans med de kvinnor hon utforskade. Hon forskade med dem istället för om dem. Syftet var att kunskapen måste vara till nytta även för dem och inte bara för andra forskare.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Bringing diversity to nature: Politicizing gender, race and class in environmental organizations?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environment and planning E: nature and space. - : SAGE Publications. - 2514-8486 .- 2514-8494. ; 2, s. 874-898
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental organizations play an important role in mainstream debates on nature and in shaping our environments. At a time when environmental NGOs are turning to questions of gender-equality and ethnic diversity, we analyze their possibilities to do so. We argue that attempts at ethnic and cultural diversity in environmental organizations cannot be understood without insight into the conceptualizations of nature and the environment that underpin thinking within the organization. Serious attempts at diversity entail confronting some of the core values on nature-cultures driving the organization as well as understanding the dimensions of power such as class, gender, and race that structure its practices. We study what nature means for one such organization, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, and the ways in which thinking about nature dictates organizational practice and sets the boundaries of their work with diversity in their projects on outdoor recreation. We base our analysis on official documents and interviews, analyze how ‘‘diversity’’ and ‘‘gender-equality’’ are represented in the material and reflect on the interconnections as well as the different trajectories taken by the two issues. Our study shows that the organization’s understanding of nature is a central and yet undiscussed determinant of their work with diversity that closes down as much as it opens up the space for greater inclusion of minorities. We argue that for environmental organizations wanting to diversity membership, a discussion of what nature means for people and their relationships to each other and nature is vital to any such efforts.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship
- 2016
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Ingår i: Antipode. - : Wiley. - 0066-4812 .- 1467-8330. ; 48, s. 74-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win-win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales-from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national provenance. They are producing "state-like" effects that touch deeply on citizenship. Villagers are drawn into a shifting REDD+ assemblage and subject to new identifications as entrepreneurs and responsible environmental citizens, meant to look after a new global commons. We shift the discussion to deal seriously with questions of a "global" citizenship, not in its utopian sense, but by bringing into light the dark side of global citizenship already in practice in environmental governance. Forests and peoples are in practice made global-we must conceptualize the rights of this "global" citizenship
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate change action
- 2022
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability and quality of public services in marginalized communities and directly compounds the unfair distribution of unpaid care work that sustains gender inequality.Yet the intersections of climate change and care work have been overlooked in the development literature. Strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation have paid relatively little attention to how care work is affected by climate impacts, nor have they considered whether interventions improve or intensify the situation of carers. Instead, when designing “gender-sensitive” climate actions, the focus has been largely on women’s economic empowerment as opposed to alleviating or transforming existing distributions of care work.The aim of this report is to fill a knowledge gap by examining the points of interaction between climate change impacts and the amount, distribution, and conditions of unpaid care work. We focus on care workers rather than those who are cared for, while stressing the relational nature of care and acknowledging that carers too require care.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Changing business as usual in global climate and development action: Making space for social justice in carbon markets
- 2023
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Ingår i: World Development Perspectives. - : Elsevier BV. - 2452-2929. ; 29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Carbon markets are being promoted both by business and governments as a predominant way to address climate change. Critical scholarship on climate change has brought attention to their disappointing climate performance, for the social and geopolitical inequalities they engender and for distracting from the imperative of changing current extractivist modes of capitalist production and consumption. Yet, given that private interests are considered central in climate action today and that carbon markets are dominant, we argue that it makes it important for us as practitioners and academics to engage with them, while maintaining our own critical posi-tion. The central aim in this article is to grapple with the human dimensions of global environmental governance, to explore practical ways in which we may go about ensuring justice and sustainability in everyday development and climate action, beyond theoretical denunciations of the system and structures in which we find ourselves. Drawing on scholarship that questions the hegemonic power of capitalism, we adopt a practical stance to reflect on how a gendered methodology, the W+ standard, modelled on methods used to measure carbon emissions reductions, may be used in development and in combination with carbon standards if needed, in a way that emissions-reducing projects also lead to gender and social justice. The W+ Standard is a methodology that en-sures that gendered inequalities, including women's often invisible care work, are accounted for, by quantifying and certifying benefits for women involved in community development and climate projects. Based on an activist academic and practitioner conversation, we explore if engaging in the politics of the present (in this case, with private interests and carbon markets) may make space for the political agency of women and men and diverse economic and social contexts in such projects and enable a shift in business in usual. We argue that there is a need to engage in new experimental economic relations in local contexts that may have the potential to change unequal development and environmental (climate) relationships, in encounters between global development and local lives.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Development and integration at a crossroads: Culture, race and ethnicity in rural Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning A. - 0308-518X. ; 49, s. 1594-1612
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent arrival of refugees in rural Sweden has raised hopes that they might stave off the depopulation of the country's periphery and lead to its development. Despite these visions in policy and in some academic literature, there is little research on how immigrant encounters with development and integration practices take shape on the ground. Critical research on immigrant integration in Sweden focuses on urban areas where most immigrants live. Rural areas, with sparse populations, weak economic positions vis a vis cities and increased policy pressures to define themselves as uniquely competitive, stand at a crossroads as they grapple with developing their areas and integrating newcomers. A less visible, but no less decisive crossroads is the vision of multiculturalism grounded in current institutions for democracy, in contrast to the road that I suggest we need to take - one that turns a critical eye on the relations that constitute the culture and institutions for integration and rural development. Drawing on long term ethnographic fieldwork in the province of Halsingland and on Bourdieu's conceptualization of misrecognition as well as critical race theories, I probe the misrecognition' of the rural and of institutions for integration and democracy in Sweden. I argue that the misrecognition of voluntary associations as the template for democracy for all and dominant discourses on what constitutes rural culture, inadvertently embody racial undertones that need to be confronted - both in theorizing and in practice - if aspirations for a multicultural democracy are to be taken as seriously as they must.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Disciplining Gender in Environmental Organizations: The Texts and Practices of Gender Mainstreaming
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 25, s. 309-325
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gender experts are being recruited and gender routinized in the everyday work of international environmental organizations today. To what extent do these changes open up spaces for reorienting sustainability debates in terms of normative commitments to promoting gender equality and justice? We explore this question by studying how gender is done in one such organization meant to work towards sustainability. We examine how work with gender is organized the experts employed and their possibilities to influence events as well as how gender is addressed in the texts produced in the course of organizational work. We find that while abstractions for a global audience may distance debates on sustainability from people on the ground, contrary to current thinking, the depoliticized and disciplined narrative on gender can also open up a space for counter discourses on gender by providing a platform from which to destabilize dominant debates on sustainability. We suggest that a close analysis of the shaping of global and official discourses on sustainability can provide insights into how we may interrupt discourses that re/produce inequalities.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Does resilience have a culture? Ecocultures and the politics of knowledge production
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 121, s. 98-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Culture, that for long had been a neglected concept in resilience thinking, has gained prominence in recent times, especially in the notion of ecocultures/ecocultural resilience to be achieved through transdisciplinary projects. In this paper, I conceptualize the relation of science with society and culture that resilience scholars propose as part of a larger agenda of the integration of science with different knowledge and epistemologies. In order to understand how resilience thinking relates to culture, I investigate the culture of resilience itself. Using the lens of cultural and science studies, I go back to the history and context of resilience and transdisciplinarity, examine some of the central tools and concepts in resilience thinking and its entanglements in the politics of the past and present. In light of the discussion, I argue that we need to 'situate' rather than 'integrate' our knowledge production. This entails not only recognizing our own culture but also being open to different ways of knowing and to be able to transgress resilience. Moving away from integration and embracing ambivalence and humility can open up to experimental practices and trading places' in order to engage with nature and others justly. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Forty years of gender research and environmental policy: Where do we stand?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395. ; 47, s. 295-308
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forty years of gender research has ensured that gender is an important category that needs to be taken into account in environmental policy and practice. A great deal of finances and attention are currently being directed to gender in development and environmental organizations. At the same time, as gender research has become more sophisticated and theoretically strong, there is also frustration among academic researchers as well as practitioners and policy makers that it appears to have had a marginal effect on environmental practice on the ground.Policies have turned to gender mainstreaming, attempted to include women and other marginalized social groups in environmental management and markets. Change has been mixed. Mainstreaming can become a technocratic exercise. The assumption that competing interests can be negotiated by adding women to organizations for environmental governance, in disregard for social relations, is problematic. Stereo-types about women and men, sometimes buttressed by gender research predominate in policy and programs. Inclusion in markets offer new options but can further curb women's agency. Contradictions arise - as gender becomes a part of the official machinery, when women are regarded as a collective but addressed as individuals in programs and when the focus is on the governance of gender with little attention on the gender of neoliberal governance. Yet, support for 'gender programs' has also led to unintended openings for empowerment. It is clear that the meaning of gender is far from settled and there are intensified efforts to define what 'gender' is in each context. I discuss the renewed interest in gender and what this engagement with power might mean for gender research, policy and practice and where we might go from here. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Gender and Environmental Policy
- 2017
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. - 9780415707749 ; , s. 289-303
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Gender, climate change and women
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Nordregio. - 1650-5891. ; , s. 35-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Gender development and environmental governance: Theorizing connections
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book examines this challenge in two very disparate parts of our world, exploring what gender-equality, resource management and development mean in real terms for its inhabitants as well as for our environmental futures. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Insights from India, consistently ranked as one of the most gender-biased countries, are compared with similar situations in the ostensibly gender-equal Sweden. Arora-Jonsson also analyzes how dominant ideas about the environment, development and gender equality shape the spaces in which women and men take action through global discourses and grassroots activism. Questioning the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and more efficient environmental management, this volume scrutinizes how environmental imaginations are key to crafting gender relations. it shows gender to be at the heart of environmental negotiations while at the same time making a case for environmental sensibilities as integral to gender relations. at the confluence of development, environmental and gender studies, the book contributes to a much-needed dialogue between these fields, proposing new futures in environmental management. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics
- 2023
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country. A vision of “just transitions” is increasingly being used by activists and groups to ensure that pathways towards sustainable futures are equitable and inclusive. Exploring this concept, this volume provides a feminist study of what it would take to ensure just transitions in India where gender, in relation to its interesting dimensions of power, is at the centre of analysis. With case studies on climate mitigation and adaptation from different parts of India, the book brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers who provide commentary on sectors including agriculture, forestry and renewables. Overall, the book has relevance far beyond India’s borders, as India’s attempt to deal with its diverse population makes it a key litmus test for countries seeking to transition against a backdrop of inequality both in the Global North and South. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate policy, gender studies, sustainable development and development studies more broadly.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Lives in limbo : Migrant integration and rural governance in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 82, s. 19-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two long-term trends characterized the response to the influx of asylum seekers in rural Sweden in 2015. First, a result of current policy-making on integration policy, is the focus increasingly focussed on individual immigrants, especially in relation to education, employment and housing provided the framework for the response. Second, the shift of rural governance from state control to collaborative arrangements with nonstate actors, enabled the unprecedented involvement of civil society in the reception and integration of asylum-seekers in rural areas. The consequences of the confluence of these two approaches are most visible in rural areas. In this paper, we explore the new landscape of collaborative governance in relation to migrant reception and integration and ask: what kind of space for maneuver might be available for migrants in the context of collaborative governance of integration in rural Europe? We argue that the new context of rural governance in tandem with integration policies focusing on individual migrants/ families rather than also considering group and ethnic belongings can leave newcomers at the mercy of an informal and unknown institutional terrain of collaborative governance, one that can exacerbate their vulnerability and lead to a situation of “double isolation”- from co-ethnic networks as well as from local society.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Negotiating across difference: Gendered exclusions and cooperation in the shea value chain
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 0263-7758 .- 1472-3433. ; 35, s. 107-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shea butter, derived from the African shea tree, has acquired a pivotal position in global agro-food and cosmetics industries. In Burkina Faso, public and private actors as well as civil society are converging upon the product to boost the incomes of rural female producers. As a result of these trends, the shea value chain is increasingly segmented; shea nuts are sold in a low-return, conventional market and simultaneously enter an alternative, high-value niche market. In the latter strand of the value chain, some producers are improving their prospects by forming an association. Tracing relationships across the two strands, we demonstrate how horizontal' relations based on gender, ethnicity, age and geography contribute to shaping participation and benefit capture in the shea value chain. We argue that processes of social inclusion and exclusion operate in parallel, as differentiated actors both cooperate and compete to secure their place within the chain. While collective organizing brings positive social and economic benefits, we show that producers' associations need not be empowering for all women. The significance of collective enterprises, but also their drawbacks must be considered when valorising pathways to women's empowerment. Our study reinforces calls for greater integration of horizontal elements in value chain analyses.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Particular and wider interests in natural resource management: Organizing together but separately
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 25, s. 33-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus that scholars have put on mainstream institutions for resource management, i.e. those recognized by the community and development agents as the primary organizations for resource management, has tended to mask alternative, less visible, but equally robust, organizational forms in which resources are managed and development is carried out at the local level. Mainstream institutions are often inadequate as arenas for negotiating contested interests. By directing attention to women's organizing in contexts in the south (India) and the north (Sweden), it is argued in this paper that although inclusive and heterogeneous structures are essential for the sustainable and equitable management of natural resources such as forests, in order to be able to be so, mainstream institutions need to be able to relate to other structures and forms that are exclusive and represent particular interests. This study of institutional contexts in such different places informs thinking on resource management, development and gender equality, and has practical implications for sustainable and equitable resource management. Importantly, it draws attention to the need to redefine how we study institutions for natural resource management.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Raising the voices of Pacific Island women to inform climate adaptation policies
- 2018
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Ingår i: Marine Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0308-597X. ; 93, s. 178-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policymakers and natural resource managers are increasingly recognizing the importance of broader geographic and gender participation in assessing climate vulnerability and developing effective adaptation policies. When such participation is limited, climate mitigation and adaptation polices may miss key opportunities to support vulnerable communities, and thus inadvertently reinforce the vulnerability of marginalized groups. This paper reports rich qualitative data from women leaders in conservation, development and climate adaptation projects to support local communities across seven Pacific Island nations. The results indicate the following priorities to support climate adaptation policies in the Pacific: (1) increased recognition for the importance of traditional knowledge; (2) greater support for local women's groups, including strategic planning and training to access climate finance mechanisms; and (3) climate policies that consider alternative metrics for women's empowerment and inclusion, formalize women's land rights, and provide land for climate refugees. Existing evidence is discussed which supports the importance of these priorities in the Pacific. Their input identifies research gaps in climate adaptation and provides important guidance for governments, non-governmental organizations, and development agencies leading climate adaptation efforts.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions – a political ecology perspective
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sustainable development goals : their impacts on forests and people. - 9781108486996 ; , s. 510-540
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Key Points • Understanding the impacts of SDG 16 on forests and people requires attention to the power dynamics that shape how all 17 SDGs are interpreted and implemented across the Global North and South. • As SDGs were agreed upon by nation states, SDG 16 places a strong emphasis on state power and the rule of law. • Yet inclusive governance requires the involvement of diverse actors, and consideration for customary laws and other non-state forms of rulemaking at global to local scales. • Many national laws governing forests and land use favour political elite, large-scale industry actors and international trade. • The development and strengthening of legal frameworks that support all of the SDGs – including those relevant to human rights, income inequalities, land tenure, gender and environmental protection – requires equal or greater priority than law enforcement. Otherwise, law enforcement will reinforce inequities and unsustainable practices. • SDG 16 provides an opportunity to overcome the stereotypes of the Global North as the referential role model for peace and democracy, by highlighting the role of the North in fostering market inequalities and global conflicts, and drawing attention to barriers to democratic and inclusive participation within the Global North. • How transparency, accountability and justice are conceived and prioritised shapes their impact on forests, as well as the degree to which their achievement either empowers forest-dependent peoples or excludes them from meaningful and informed engagement.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda
- 2021
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Ingår i: Human Ecology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0300-7839 .- 1572-9915. ; 49, s. 297-308
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We address two aspects of forest lives-violence and care-that are central to forest outcomes but often invisible in mainstream discussions on forests. We argue that questions of violence and care work in forests open up debates about what forests are, who defines them, and how. We draw primarily on feminist work on forestry, violence, and care to examine the gendered nature of forest conflicts and the 'quiet politics' of resistance to violence grounded in the everyday work of care that are crucial to understanding forests and their governance. We show how varied practices of resistance to violence and injustice are grounded in cooperative action of care and are an intrinsic part of shaping and regenerating forests. We highlight the importance of close attention to seemingly mundane actions rooted in people's daily lives and experiences that shape forests.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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The realm of freedom in new rural governance: Micro-politics of democracy in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185. ; 79, s. 58-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Voluntary associations are at the heart of Swedish rural policy and strategies for governance as partners in bringing about 'development from below.' Examining the implications of this new responsibility being placed on the civil society in new modes of multilevel governance, I ask: do these changes presage greater political space for individuals vis a vis the state or is Swedish rural policy premised on ideas about an institutional context that might be disappearing? In comparative research in rural Sweden, I discuss state and civil-society relations at the macro level in light of the gendered micro-politics of associational life on the ground. Through ethnographic research with people involved in development work of different kinds, I examine how ideas about community associations are used to mobilize rural policy. I analyze its' political implications and argue for the importance of analyzing macro in relation to the micropolitics on the ground for a better theoretical understanding of democracy and power in rural governance, in particular its gendered implications. I argue that past collaborative relations between the civil society and the state's administrative apparatuses as well as the current focus of rural policy have enabled the state to hand over service functions to the civil society and diluted their 'voice,' incongrously endangering the institutional basis of rural policy itself. Further, attention to the gendered micropolitics of associational life makes apparent cleavages within civil society and its underlying relations of gender and power that challenge current conceptualizations on the neoliberalization of rural policy. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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The sustainable development goals: A universalist promise for the future
- 2023
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) have evoked optimism but have also been criticized for reproducing a universal template grounded in a western and neoliberal ideology. Identifying three strands of responses/critiques on the SDGs from a review of literature across several disciplines, I analyze what they have to say in the light of histories of past development work. I analyze how universalism is understood differently in different disciplinary approaches and how, despite its limitations, Agenda 2030 might provide a platform to meet current challenges across the world and a framework to talk across different geographies and disciplines. While a delinking from current development and global economic structures are needed for change, I explore how the SDGs can be used to redeploy development to change those very structures. I argue that decolonizing development calls for changing development structures from inside out as much as finding new ways of being outside it.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırması ve Çevre Politikasının Kırk Yılı: Nerede Duruyoruz?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Kültür ve siyasette feminist yaklaşımlar. - 1307-0932. ; 43, s. 33-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Kırk yıllık toplumsal cinsiyet araştırması, toplumsal cinsiyetin, çevre politikası ve uygulamasında dikkate alınması gereken önemli bir kategori olmasını sağlamıştır. Şu anda kalkınma ve çevre kurumlarında epey büyük miktarda kaynak ve ilgi toplumsal cinsiyete yönlendiriliyor. Aynı zamanda, toplumsal cinsiyet araştırmaları çok daha sofistike ve teorik anlamda güçlü hale geldiğinden, uygulayıcılar ve politika yapıcıların yanı sıra akademik araştırmacılar arasında da toplumsal cinsiyet araştırmalarının sahadaki çevre uygulaması üzerinde sınırlı bir etkisi olduğuna dair bir gerilim söz konusu.Politikalar toplumsal cinsiyetin ana akımlaştırılmasına yönelmiş, kadınları ve diğer ötekileştirilmiş toplumsal grupları çevre yönetimine ve piyasasına dahil etmeye çalışmıştır. Değişim karmaşık bir hal aldı. Ana akımlaştırma teknokratik bir egzersize dönüşebilir. Toplumsal ilişkileri hiçe sayarak, sadece çevresel yönetişim kurumlarına kadınların eklenmesiyle, çakışan çıkarların müzakere edilebileceğini varsaymak sorunludur. Toplumsal cinsiyet araştırmalarının da kimi zaman destek sunduğu kadınlar ve erkeklere dair kalıp yargılar, politika ve programlarda baskındır. Piyasalara dahil olma yeni seçenekler sunuyor ancak kadın eylemliliğini daha fazla dizginleyebilir. Toplumsal cinsiyet, resmi aygıtın bir parçası haline geldikçe, yani kadınlar kolektif biçimde ele alındığında ama yine de programlarda birey olarak işaret edildiklerinde ve neoliberal yönetimin toplumsal cinsiyetine çok az dikkat edilerek toplumsal cinsiyetin yönetimine odaklanıldığında çelişkiler ortaya çıkıyor. Bununla birlikte, ‘toplumsal cinsiyet programları’na sunulan destek, güçlendirme için hiç hesapta olmayan açılımlara da yol açtı. Toplumsal cinsiyetin anlamının sabitlenmekten uzak olduğu açık ve her bir bağlamda 'toplumsal cinsiyet’in ne olduğunu tanımlamaya yönelik yoğun çaba sarf ediliyor. Bu makalede toplumsal cinsiyete olan ilginin tazelenmesini ve iktidarla olan bu etkileşimin toplumsal cinsiyet araştırmaları, politikası ve uygulaması için ne anlama gelebileceğini ve buradan nereye gidebileceğimizi tartışıyorum.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Change. - : Elsevier BV. - 1872-9495 .- 0959-3780. ; 21, s. 744-751
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate - women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will be affected more by climate change than men in those countries and that men in the North pollute more than women. The debates are structured in specific ways in the North and the South and the discussion in the article focuses largely on examples from Sweden and India. The article traces the lineage of the arguments to the women, environment and development discussions, examining how they recur in new forms in climate debates. Questioning assumptions about women's vulnerability and virtuousness, it highlights how a focus on women's vulnerability or virtuousness can deflect attention from inequalities in decision-making. By reiterating statements about poor women in the South and the pro-environmental women of the North, these assumptions reinforce North-South biases. Generalizations about women's vulnerability and virtuousness can lead to an increase in women's responsibility without corresponding rewards. There is need to contextualise debates on climate change to enable action and to respond effectively to its adverse effects in particular places. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Voices from the field: Working for a just climate in India
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 74-92
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- In this chapter, Seema Arora-Jonsson discusses the question of just transitions with a cross section of people working for a better climate in India: a former civil servant and climate negotiator who has long worked with climate issues, a practitioner/activist working on just transitions in an NGO, an activist with a long history in the women’s grassroots movements, a gender activist who has worked extensively with climate change at the international level as well as a networker who maintains a platform for corporations for climate finance. We discuss the context in which transitions are taking place, go on to current policy approaches and its gendered aspects and the structural challenges and barriers of policy approaches to a just transition. In the overarching gloom, we also discuss the rays of hope, and we end with what we believe is needed to take the world into a sustainable and climate-resilient place.
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- Holmgren, Sara, et al.
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The Forest Kingdom - with what values for the world? Climate change and gender equality in a contested forest policy context
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0282-7581 .- 1651-1891. ; 30, s. 235-245
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- In this paper we explore the Swedish Government's vision for the forest sector: The Forest Kingdom - with values for the world, launched in 2011. We use the issues of climate change and gender equality to demonstrate implicit "values" that underpin this recent forest policy initiative. Drawing on new institutionalism, critical discourse theory and gender as an analytical category, we conceptualise values as important governance mechanisms mediated through discourse. We analyse key documents of the Forest Kingdom, along with press releases, governmental bills and reports and direct attention to problem representations and subject positions (identity offerings) produced. Our findings demonstrate how climate change is turned into a business opportunity and a means to secure growth and employment throughout Sweden. Women are represented as potential employees and active forest owners connected to the needs of the industry, rather than as active citizens involved in forest policy-making. Climate change and gender inequality are thereby displaced from the political to an economic sphere, linked to industrial needs, private forest ownership and profit rather than to public and collective decision-making. Values underpinning these representations are economic growth, individualism and faith in markets. The emphasis on production is not dissimilar from previous forest policies, which until 1993 primarily were oriented towards timber production.
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- Petitt, Andrea, 1981-
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Women's cattle ownership in Botswana : Rebranding gender relations?
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cattle are often portrayed as a male affair in Botswana. However, venturing out into the Kalahari countryside to scratch the surface of this state of affairs, another picture emerges. There are in fact many women from different socioeconomic background who own, manage and work with cattle in different ways, and their farming is defined by both the connection to the EU beef market and interlinked local processes of power. Cattle are ever-present in Botswana and play a paramount role in the economy, in politics and in the rural landscape of the country, as well as in many people’s cultural identity, kinship relations and everyday routines.I study women’s involvement in cattle production in Ghanzi District to think about how peoples’ relations to certain livestock species produce, reproduce and challenge established patterns of material and social relations. More specifically I investigate how access and claims to livestock are defined by intersections of gender, ethnicity, race and class within broader contexts associated with the commercialisation of livestock production.The objective of this thesis is to explore how different women are able to benefit from their cattle ownership in terms of their social positions and material welfare in Botswana within the broader political, economic and sociocultural contexts associated with the commercial beef industry. Through ethnographic fieldwork and an intersectional analysis of gendered property relations to grazing land and cattle, I show how women do benefit from both subsistence products and monetary income from cattle sales. An increased need for cash together with the possibility to sell cattle stimulated by Botswana’s beef trade with the EU have motivated women to seek control over cattle. There are women who, encouraged by gender equality messages from the Ministry of Gender Affairs, make use of the government’s loans and grants designed to facilitate entrepreneurship to start up their own cattle operations and make claims to the cattle market. Many of these women, who have control over their cattle also benefit in terms of social status and a number of those women who engage in cattle production in ways seen as new and different speak of more equal gender relations.
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