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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - 1103-9000.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
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- Brock Carlson, Erin, et al.
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Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia
- 2024
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3109 .- 1468-7941.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Photovoice is an increasingly popular research method across disciplines due to its flexibility and capacity for generating rich data. This article argues that while its practical virtues are abundant, the theoretical contributions of photovoice to qualitative research are just as important. We argue that photographs can act as boundary objects that enable collective sensemaking at multiple stages of a research study. This is fulfilled through a case study of gas extraction and distribution networks and their social consequences in West Virginia, a state in the United States deeply entrenched geographically and culturally in natural resource extraction. Ultimately, this case study demonstrates that photovoice as a process and photographs as artifacts are sites for rich collaborative interpretation and provides a model of how to operationalize photos in multiple stages of research so that study designs are centered around participant experiences.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
(författare)
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A reflexive analysis on field knowledge production and academic labor during PhD studies
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The multitasking nature of academic labor has become an increasingly essential part of PhD studies. Teaching, competition for funding, international networking and publishing in high impact journals are expected and encouraged. This situation becomes even more complex when a doctoral candidate needs to perform fieldwork, as it is common in geography. In this paper, the gendered nature of fieldwork is analyzed through the autobiographical accounts of two young female doctoral students in human geography carrying out field research in the global south. As opposed to the positivistic ideal of scientific objectivity, the results show that embodiment and wellbeing play a pivotal role in influencing the course of fieldwork. Hence, we examine the everyday dimensions of field research both during pre-fieldwork planning and post-fieldwork. Lastly, we discuss current neoliberal prerequisites to secure an academic career and what they imply for researchers' lives.
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| 5. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Beyond environmental harm : Industry claims, lived experiences, and the impacts of gas extraction
- 2024
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Ingår i: Energy Research and Social Science. - 2214-6296. ; 115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The peer-reviewed literature presents overwhelming evidence that fossil fuel based energy infrastructure projects are responsible for lower residential property values, environmental destruction and pollution that decrease residents' quality of life. These projects also challenge local people's sense of identity and even the threat of such a project can make residents question their sense of place. As evidence, we first present a bibliographic analysis of the environmental impact statements for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and the Jordan Cove Energy Project in Oregon. We find that their approval processes relies on non-peer-reviewed, industry-funded claims that pipelines will bring economic benefit and will have no effect on property values. Second, through original interview data gathered between 2019 and 2021 in West Virginia and in 2021 in Oregon, we engage with the concepts of sense of identity and sense of place to demonstrate that regardless of the local context, fossil fuel based energy infrastructure projects cause more than environmental damage; they trigger emotional reactions in residents that see or fear seeing their everyday lives upended. Taken together, this Perspective contributes to the emerging field of emotional energy geography to show how the plans and implementation of oil and gas pipelines become crucial turning points in residents' lives.
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| 6. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
(författare)
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Casa Rut : A Multilevel Analysis of a “Good Practice” in the Social Assistance of Sexually Trafficked Nigerian Women
- 2015
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Ingår i: Affilia. - : SAGE Publications. - 0886-1099 .- 1552-3020. ; 30:40, s. 546-559
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article depicts the case study of Casa Rut (“Ruth Home”), a shelter for victims of sexual trafficking, who are predominantly Nigerian women. Since 1995, through the implementation of article 18 of the consolidated act on immigration, Casa Rut has offered a program of social assistance and rehabilitation to 340 women, 120 of whom were Nigerian and 41 of whom were pregnant. Data gathered during a two-month internship between 2008 and 2009 are examined in light of the context of the Nigerian sexual trafficking operation and its collusion with the local criminal organization Camorra in the surroundings of the southern Italian city of Caserta.Casa Rut’s interventions are analyzed according to a multilevel perspective and the nature of victims’ case management in order to assess whether this NGO can be considered to represent “good practice” in the fight against sexual trafficking. Hence, the work of the social cooperative NewHope—a tailoring cooperative founded in 2004 by Casa Rut that provides vocational training to formerly trafficked women—is considered in relation to the long-term employment needs of sexual trafficking victims.Human and sexual trafficking has not been extensively investigated within social work, even though practitioners are best positioned to address this issue. This work therefore aims to facilitate social service providers in their everyday activities by presenting multilevel evidence of “good practice” in the fight against the modern day slave trade.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Conflating Privilege and Vulnerability : A Reflexive Analysis of Emotions and Positionality in Postgraduate Fieldwork
- 2017
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Ingår i: Professional Geographer. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0033-0124 .- 1467-9272. ; 69:2, s. 275-283
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Grounded in a self-reflexive, intersectional analysis of positionality, we examine emotions in fieldwork through theautobiographical accounts that we gathered during our postgraduate ethnographic research in the Global South. We showhow we, two female early-career geographers, emotionally coped with instances that put us in a vulnerable position due toloneliness, commitment to the field, insistent questioning, violence, and violent threats. We argue that a culture of silencesurrounding fieldwork difficulties and their emotional consequences tend to permeate our discipline. We contend thatgeography departments ought to provide mentorship that takes into account doctoral candidates’ different positionalities,conflated vulnerability and privilege, and embodied intersectional axes. This renewed awareness will help not only to revealpossible risks and challenges connected with fieldwork but also ultimately to enrich the overall academic discussions withinour discipline.
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| 9. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
(författare)
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“Credit plus” microcredit schemes : a key to women's adaptive capacity
- 2014
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Ingår i: Climate and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1756-5529 .- 1756-5537. ; 6:2, s. 179-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the provision of “credit plus” training activities, conditionally and jointly with microloans by Equity Bank and by Swedish non-governmental organization Vi-Skogen in the area of Kisumu, Kenya to women's groups as a key to improving women's capacity to adapt to climate change. Groups received training in small business administration and agroforestry, which produced positive outcomes or a virtuous spiral in their families' economy, well-being and in their intra-household bargaining power. In agroforestry and new farming practices, group training enhanced the women's set of planned adaptation strategies. In a context where formal financial institutions are still reluctant to provide credit to subsistence farmers, this case study shows the beneficial effects that credit would generate for women's adaptive capacity.
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| 10. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Decolonising pedagogy in practice : cuerpo-territorio to consolidate students´ learning
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Geography in Higher Education. - 0309-8265.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cuerpo-territorio is a method stemming from Latin American geography, which recognizes the centrality of situated and embodied experiences as a form of knowing. We engaged with this method in the classroom to understand how students through their embodied and situated experiences had absorbed a post-development geographic course content and how these notions had remained with them. Given that emotions, particularly when elicited by images play a major role in consolidating knowledge, we asked students to explore their embodied feelings related to the course content by reflecting and representing them in a visual form on a poster. Through this paper, we aim to contribute to the debate on the importance of applying decolonial strategies in the classroom by widening the methodological toolbox of our geography colleagues. We find that, given the diversity of the students’ population, working with a boundary object such as the posters helped students to relate to each other via the course content. Finally, reflecting and assimilating the course content through cuerpo -territorio, we argue, was conducive to consolidating learning outcomes, while students experienced knowledge co-creation with their peers.
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| 11. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Does shale gas development impact property values in Central Appalachia? A mixed methods critical exploration
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Extractive Industries and Society. - 2214-790X. ; 14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased shale gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing and its distribution through shale gas pipelines have brought about innumerable socioeconomic consequences, both tangibly and intangibly. Evidence remains unclear on what are the impacts of shale gas developments on property values. By employing a mixed method approach, combining original data collected in the Marcellus Shale through interviews and a survey, and an analysis of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Rover Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline environmental impact statements, our data shows both an increase and decrease in property value in Central Appalachia. We demonstrate that shale gas pipelines buildout is made possible by skewed environmental impact statements that disregard peer-reviewed science and the experience of those living at the energy frontier. We contend that the inclusion of residents’ lived experience will help to effectively evaluate the social and environmental sustainability of shale gas development. Finally, we argue that additional interdisciplinary original evidence is needed in order to improve environmental impact statements that effectively evaluate the viability and sustainability of energy distribution networks.
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| 12. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
(författare)
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East African Hydropatriarchies : An analysis of changing waterscapes in smallholder irrigation farming
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines the local waterscapes of two smallholder irrigation farming systems in the dry lands of East African in a context of socio-ecological changes. It focuses on three aspects: institutional arrangements, gender relations and landscape investments. This thesis is based on a reflexive analysis of cross-cultural, cross-language research, particularly focusing on the role of field assistants and interpreters, and on member checking as a method to ensure validity.Flexible irrigation infrastructure in Sibou, Kenya, and Engaruka, Tanzania, allow farmers to shift the course of water and to extend or reduce the area cultivated depending on seasonal rainfall patterns. Water conflicts are avoided through a decentralized common property management system. Water rights are continuously renegotiated depending on water supply. Water is seen as a common good the management of which is guided by mutual understanding to prevent conflicts through participation and shared information about water rights.However, participation in water management is a privilege that is endowed mostly to men. Strict patriarchal norms regulate control over water and practically exclude women from irrigation management. The control over water usage for productive means is a manifestation of masculinity. The same gender bias has emerged in recent decades as men have increased their engagement in agriculture by cultivating crops for sale. Women, because of their subordinated position, cannot take advantage of the recent livelihood diversification. Rather, the cultivation of horticultural products for sale has increased the workload for women who already farm most food crops for family consumption. In addition, they now have to weed and harvest the commercial crops that their husbands sell for profit. This agricultural gender divide is mirrored in men´s and women´s response to increased climate variability. Women intercrop as a risk adverting strategy, while men sow more rounds of crops for sale when the rain allows for it. Additionally, while discursively underestimated by men, women´s assistance is materially fundamental to maintaining of the irrigation infrastructure and to ensuring the soil fertility that makes the cultivation of crops for sale possible.In sum, this thesis highlights the adaptation potentials of contemporary smallholder irrigation systems through local common property regimes that, while not inclusive towards women, avoid conflicts generated by shifting water supply and increased climate variability.To be able to assess the success and viability of irrigation systems, research must be carried out at a local level. By studying how local water management works, how conflicts are adverted through common property regimes and how these systems adapt to socio-ecological changes, this thesis provides insights that are important both for the planning of current irrigation schemes and the rehabilitation or the extension of older systems. By investigating the factors behind the consistent marginalization of women from water management and their subordinated role in agricultural production, this study also cautions against the reproduction of these discriminatory norms in the planning of irrigation projects.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Exploring Climate Change Perspectives. An Analysis of Undergraduate Students' Place-Based Attachment in Appalachia, USA
- 2022
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Ingår i: Rural Sociology. - : Wiley. - 0036-0112 .- 1549-0831. ; 87:3, s. 847-872
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite global scientific consensus, climate change is a highly controversial and politicized issue in the United States. Grounded in two quantitative survey iterations with approximately 446 responses, 28 semi-structured interviews, and 4 focus groups with 60 undergraduate students from six state universities in the Appalachian region, this five-year study explores the role of place-based attachment and emotions in framing undergraduate students' climate change perspectives. Results show that the rural, socioeconomic status of Appalachia affects students' perspectives toward climate change and the barrage of information they are exposed to—whether scientific or media or from family—triggers uncertainty and inaction in them. They, in fact, think that climate change is happening elsewhere and will not necessarily affect them. We consider the importance, particularly in natural resource, extraction-dependent areas of the US, to better understand students' perspectives of climate change, given their role as current and future voters and policymakers. We argue that an emotional and place-based analysis of students' identities helps to frame climate change as an issue impacting themselves and their communities, prompting students to better articulate their perspectives on climate change.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
(författare)
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Feminist participatory methodologies in geography : creating spaces of inclusion
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 16:3, s. 258-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This introduction prefaces a special issue on the topic of feminist participatory methodologies in geography. Drawing upon the experiences of the contributors in developing new tools and methods to facilitate interaction with participants and working with groups that tend to be forgotten, subordinated and/or alienated, we argue for the methodological significance of instating a feminist perspective to participatory research. Although much theoretical debate has taken place among feminist and post-colonial scholars on unequal research relationships between “researchers” and “research subjects”, the literature on how to operationalize greater equality remains quite limited. We attempt to fill this research gap by bringing together scholars working in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres in order to illuminate the multifaceted ways in which these methods can be used not only to debunk hierarchical research relationships, but also to produce new scientific insights with greater validity.
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| 15. |
- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
(författare)
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Flooding Hazard and Vulnerability. An Interdisciplinary Experimental Approach for the Study of the 2016 West Virginia Floods
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Water. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2624-9375. ; 3:60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The hydrosocial (HS) and social-hydro (SH) frameworks each attempt to understand the complexity of water and society, but they have emerged from historically disparate fields with distinctly different goals as well as methodological and epistemological standpoints. This paper encapsulates the shared experiences of two human geographers and two hydrologists studying hazard and vulnerability in two communities impacted by extreme flooding in West Virginia in 2016. We add to the limited examples of scientists working across epistemologies to improve the understanding of water-societal relations. In so doing, we also contribute to broader discussions of water justice. We outline an experimental approach connecting hydrosocial and social-hydro frameworks to study flood hazard and vulnerability. Within our conceptualization, we set forth that while social and hydrological factors can be presented as purely anthropogenic or geophysical, respectively, their intersection is the crux to investigate. The relationships between variables of both major categories can help us understand how the social and biophysical systems are interrelated. We depart from 21 semi structured interviews and a secondary analysis of local biophysical factors to develop a model that could show the relations between social and biophysical factors. Linking these factors is crucial step toward integration of SH and HS approaches to create a more comprehensive understanding of water-human relations. These studies can inform policymakers by highlighting where negative connections can be remedied and positive connections can be fostered to emphasize water justice.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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From a rural idyll to an industrial site: an analysis of hydraulic fracturing energy sprawl in Central Appalachia
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Land Use Science. - 1747-423X. ; 16:4, s. 382-397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyzes land-system dynamics changes due to energy infrastructure development and explores the environmental and social ramifications of hydraulic fracturing, through a case study in Central Appalachia. Grounded in photographic data, satellite images, and ethnographic material, this study demonstrates landscape and embodied experiences of change over time. Data show major shifts in terms of wildlife behavior, possibilities for farming and gardening, and byproducts of construction like noise, pollution, and excavation. However, what we argue is crucial to examine is the emotional toll that these changes have taken on rural residents. Interviewees chose to live in West Virginia because of deep enchantment with the surrounding natural beauty, which they feel they have lost due to energy development. While energy research has been dominated by technical disciplines and explanations, we advocate for an emotional-oriented analysis that accounts for individually lived experiences in the context of these landscape-level changes.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Hydropatriarchies and landesque capital : a local gender contract analysis of two smallholder irrigation systems in East Africa
- 2015
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Ingår i: Geographical Journal. - : Wiley. - 0016-7398 .- 1475-4959. ; 181:4, s. 388-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Water is a natural resource whose control for productive purposes is often in the hands of men. Societies grounded on such unequal gender relations have been defined ‘hydropatriarchies’. Against this background, this paper presents a gender analysis of landscape investments, conceptualised as landesque capital in smallholder irrigation farming in East Africa. Based on the analysis of how local gender contracts are negotiated, I argue that as processes of landesque capital formation are often explicitly gendered, attentiveness to gender dynamics is required to fully understand such practices. Moreover, as investments in landesque capital, for example, irrigation, terracing and drainage systems, have primarily been conceptualised as the result of men's systematic work, this study highlights women's contributions to the creation of landesque capital, taking smallholder irrigation as an example. Findings show that a distinction between ‘incremental’ and ‘systematic’ change (Doolittle 1984; Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74 124–37) is central to understanding the gender dynamics of landesque capital investment, but it is not sufficient. As women's work processes are typically not systematic, possibly promoting incremental change, they contribute to the production of landesque capital by supporting and facilitating men's work. However, the work of women is, as a rule, homogenised and stereotypically rendered as reproductive and secondary, due to the underlying cultural norms that limit, control or exploit women. This conceptualisation, or rather lack of, I argue, risks leading to a gender-blind analysis of land use intensification processes. Building on the gendered and symbolic nature of landesque capital, I propose a local gender contract analysis that integrates the cultural, symbolic and physical dimensions of the local gender division of labour into agricultural work and landscape change processes.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
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“¿La revolución tiene cara de campesina?” Un caso de estudio de la participación activa de las mujeres en el riego del páramo venezolano "Has the Revolution a Peasant Face?" A case study on the activeparticipation of women in an irrigation project in the Venezuelan Páramo
- 2015
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Ingår i: Revista Latino-Americana de Geografia e Gênero. - Ponta Grosa, Brasil. - 2177-2886. ; 6:2, s. 3-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- En Venezuela, la participación de la mujer en los procesos de tomas de decisiones ha sido profundizada por la revolución bolivariana. Mientras se ha demostrado que los cambios legislativos han logrado involucrar a las mujeres en las zonas urbanas, no existen estudios al respecto equivalentes en las zonas rurales. Este artículo es un primer paso para solventar dicha carencia científica. Se han utilizado para ello metodologías cualitativas y un enfoque de género para conocer la participación de la mujer en la organización espacial del sistema económico-productivo en Mixteque, del municipio Rangel, estado Mérida,Venezuela. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que mientras las mujeres son las principales gerentes del Consejo Comunal, su participación es pasiva en la toma de decisiones de los procesos productivos. De hecho, el Comité de Riego está compuesto principalmente por hombres, controlando, como consecuencia, la actividad económica dominante: la agricultura. Asimismo, se resalta que aunque las relaciones patriarcales están cambiando en algunas familias, a nivel organizativo comunitario se ha consolidado una división de trabajo productivo y reproductivo entre hombres y mujeres. Nuestro estudio reafirma que Venezuela es un caso especial en términos de voluntad hacia la participación femenina y confirma que la paridad de género ha ido mejorando. Pero, sobre todo, demuestra que las campesinas andinas venezolanas no son diferentes a las ecuatorianas, bolivianas o peruanas: ninguna tiene acceso directo a los espacios participativos de tomas de decisión sobre el agua. La presente investigación sobre dichas dinámicas es inédita en el estudio geográfico venezolano, y servirá para ilustrar de qué manera los nuevos procesos organizativos venezolanos pudieron – si pudieron - modificar los papeles de género.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Labour, climate perceptions and soils in the irrigation systems in Sibou, Kenya & Engaruka, Tanzania
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This booklet presents the results of a 4 years project (2011-2015) by four geographers from the university of Stockholm. This research took place in two small villages: Sibou, Kenya and Engaruka, Tanzania. The overall project looks at three variables: soil, climate and labor. These aspects can give an indication of the type of changes that happened in these irrigation systems and what have been the triggers behind them. In this booklet results are presented according to location and focus on: agricultural practices, women´s and men´s labor tasks, soil and water characteristics, adaptation weather variability and how all of these aspects have changed over time.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
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Local gender contract and adaptive capacity in smallholder irrigation farming : a case study from the Kenyan drylands
- 2015
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Ingår i: Gender, Place and Culture. - 0966-369X .- 1360-0524. ; 22:5, s. 644-661
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the local gender contract of a smallholder irrigation farming community in Sibou, Kenya. Women's role in subsistence farming in Africa has mostly been analyzed through the lens of gender division of labor. In addition to this, we used the concept of ‘local gender contract’ to analyze cultural and material preconditions shaping gender-specific tasks in agricultural production, and consequently, men's and women's different strategies for adapting to climate variability. We show that the introduction of cash crops, as a trigger for negotiating women's and men's roles in the agricultural production, results in a process of gender contract renegotiation, and that families engaged in cash cropping are in the process of shifting from a ‘local resource contract’ to a ‘household income contract.’ Based on our analysis, we argue that a transformation of the local gender contract will have a direct impact on the community's adaptive capacity climate variability. It is, therefore, important to take the negotiation of local gender contracts into account in assessments of farming communities' adaptive capacity.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Local residents’ lived experiences of energy sprawl in West Virginia. A visual exploration of landscape change
- 2023
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Ingår i: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9710 .- 0142-6397. ; 48:6, s. 841-858
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- West Virginia, sitting fully in the eastern US region of Appalachia, has a long history of resource extraction, including salt, timber, coal and oil. In the late 2000s, gas became another popular resource, obtained through hydraulic fracturing. The once-hilly landscape has been flattened, valleys have been filled, and caves have been dug all because of extraction. In this photo essay we document the latest manifestation of landscape change that local communities have experienced: pipeline development. Pipelines have been put in place across the state, given ever-improving hydraulic fracturing technology and subsequent national and international consumption that requires transportation. This photo essay shows the landscape changes that West Virginia has undergone through the eyes and words of residents. We present data gathered through 33 interviews and visual methods that illustrate the destruction of scenery and memories through erosion, as well as everyday challenges to property access during construction.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Managing variability and scarcity. An analysis of Engaruka : A Maasai smallholder irrigation farming community
- 2015
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Ingår i: Agricultural Water Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-3774 .- 1873-2283. ; 159, s. 318-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the common-pool regime of Engaruka, a smallholder irrigation farming community in northern Tanzania. Irrigation is a complex issue due to water asymmetry. Water use is regulated in Engaruka through boundary, allocation, input and penalty rules by a users’ association that controls and negotiates water allocation to avoid conflicts among headenders and tailenders. As different crops – maize and beans, bananas and vegetables – are cultivated, different watering schemes are applied depending on the water requirements of every single crop. Farmers benefit from different irrigation schedules and from different soil characteristics through having their plots both downstream and upstream. In fact, depending on water supply, cultivation is resourcefully extended and retracted. Engaruka is an ethnically homogeneous and interdependent community where headenders and tailenders are often the same people and are hence inhibited to carry out unilateral action. Drawing on common-pool resource literature, this study argues that in a context of population pressure alongside limited and fluctuating water availability, non-equilibrium behavior, consisting in negotiating water rights and modifying irrigation area continuously through demand management, is crucial for the satisfaction of basic and productive needs and for the avoidance of water conflicts.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Member checking : a participatory method to test and analyze preliminary results in cross-cultural, cross-language research
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Participation and reflexivity have become buzzwords that are seldom discussed in terms of their practical employment. Against this backdrop, with a specific focus on geography, this article presents and analyzes the advantages and limitations of a methodological tool that seeks to enhance both reflexivity and participation. The tool was a pamphlet written in local languages that contained several pictures and summarized the data gathered in previous fieldwork sessions. This tool was used in a four-year research project on the gender division of labor in smallholder irrigation farming in Kenya and Tanzania. The pamphlet showed participants their contributions to the research process and offered them the opportunity to correct, improve and further discuss previously collected data. It not only ensured research validity but also allowed for a shift in the research power hierarchy. Finally, the pamphlet effectively created a space for inclusion, discussion and reciprocal learning, leading to collective reflexivity and catalytic validity by empowering participants and re-orienting the researcher.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela
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Member checking : A feminist participatory analysis of the use of preliminary results pamphlets in cross-cultural, cross-language research
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 16:3, s. 305-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Participation and reflexivity have become buzzwords that are seldom discussed in terms of their practical employment. Against this backdrop, with a specific focus on geography, this article presents and analyzes the advantages and limitations of a methodological tool that seeks to enhance both reflexivity and participation. The tool was a pamphlet written in local languages that contained several pictures and summarized the data gathered in previous fieldwork sessions. This tool was used in a four-year research project on the gender division of labor in smallholder irrigation farming in Kenya and Tanzania. The pamphlet showed participants their contributions to the research process and offered them the opportunity to correct, improve and further discuss previously collected data. It not only ensured research validity but also allowed for a shift in the research power hierarchy. Finally, the pamphlet effectively created a space for inclusion, discussion and reciprocal learning, leading to collective reflexivity and catalytic validity by empowering participants and re-orienting the researcher.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Migration as adaptation to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes? A meta-review of existing evidence
- 2023
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Ingår i: Climatic Change. - 0165-0009. ; 176:8
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Due to its potential geo-political and environmental implications, climate migration is an increasing concern to the international community. However, while there is considerable attention devoted to migration in response to sea-level rise, there is a limited understanding of human mobility due to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes. Hence, the aim of this paper is to examine the existing evidence on migration as an adaptation strategy due to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes. A meta-review of papers published between 2014 and 2019 yielded 67 publications, the majority of which focus on a handful of countries in the Global South. Droughts, floods, extreme heat, and changes in seasonal precipitation patterns were singled out as the most common hazards triggering migration. Importantly, most of the papers discuss mobility as part of a portfolio of responses. Motivations to migrate at the household level range from survival to searching for better economic opportunities. The outcomes of migration are mixed — spanning from higher incomes to difficulties in finding employment after moving and struggles with a higher cost of living. While remittances can be beneficial, migration does not always have a positive outcome for those who are left behind. Furthermore, this meta-review shows that migration, even when desired, is not an option for some of the most vulnerable households. These multifaceted results suggest that, while climate mobility is certainly happening due to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes, studies reviewing it are limited and substantial gaps remain in terms of geographical coverage, implementation assessments, and outcomes evaluation. We argue that these gaps need to be filled to inform climate and migration policies that increasingly need to be intertwined rather than shaped in isolation from each other.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
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Re-Thinking the Boundaries of the Focus Group : A Reflexive Analysis on the Use and Legitimacy of Group Methodologies in Qualitative Research
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sociological Research Online. - : SAGE Publications. - 1360-7804. ; 20:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims at problematizing the boundaries of what counts as focus group and in so doing it identifies some continuity between focus group and workshop, especially when it comes to arts informed and activity laden focus groups. The workshop[1] is often marginalized as a legitimate method for qualitative data collection outside PAR (Participatory Action Research)-based methodologies. Using examples from our research projects in East Africa and in London we argue that there are areas of overlap between these two methods, yet we tend to use concepts and definitions associated with focus groups because of the lack of visibility of workshops in qualitative research methods academic literature.The article argues that focus groups and workshops present a series of intertwined features resulting in a blending of the two which needs further exploration. In problematizing the boundaries of focus groups and recognizing the increasing usage of art-based and activity-based processes for the production of qualitative data during focus groups, we argue that focus groups and workshop are increasingly converging. We use a specifically feminist epistemology in order to critically unveil the myth around the non-hierarchical nature of consensus and group interaction during focus group discussions and other multi-vocal qualitative methods and contend that more methodological research should be carried out on the workshop as a legitimate qualitative data collection technique situated outside the cycle of action research.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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“Shale gas development will bring local economic benefits”. An analysis of central Appalachian landowners' lived experience and situated knowledge of extractivism
- 2024
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - 0016-7185. ; 154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Extractivism is notorious for causing environmental destruction, resulting in worsened living conditions for those residing near sites of, among other processes, mining, logging, and hydraulic fracturing. Yet, companies can operate in certain areas because they mobilize narratives, often supported by governments and local authorities, asserting that extraction will bring local economic benefits in the forms of employment, improved general living standards, and economic compensation. In this article, we examine this core argument, focusing on shale gas development that has taken place since the mid-2000s in central Appalachia. We ground our analysis in original material gathered between 2020 and 2022 through 55 interviews with land and mineral owners. Extractivism is a capitalistic complex that operates on a systemic level with similar structures independently of the context where it is taking place. In this article, we zoom in on its operations and consequences at a micro level. We show how the logic of critical infrastructures is enacted by energy companies through compensation and experienced by residents through impacts on livelihood. While this qualitative analysis does not quantify local economic gains or losses, there is a preponderance of evidence showing that land and mineral owners have received limited and discontinuous compensation often compounded with the loss of usable land or forest. We argue that the extraction of raw fossil materials not only contributes to environmental destruction and climate change but is fundamentally grounded in unequal power relations that heighten social vulnerability and potentially destroy livelihoods.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research : a collaborative reflexive analysis of researcher, assistant and participant subjectivities
- 2014
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 15:4, s. 489-505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes situated knowledge through the lens of the author and her three field assistants. This work is written self-reflexively and is based on geographical fieldwork in Eastern Africa. It seeks to capitalize on the personal and professional relationships of the researcher and her field assistants to improve both research outcomes and working arrangements. Reflecting on episodes of failure, anxiety and misunderstanding, it disentangles the power geometry of situated knowledge and sheds light on the vital role played by the assistant/interpreter and by his/her positionality ‘in the making’ of cross-cultural, cross-language research. Grounded in a feminist epistemological perspective, this article shows that methodological reflexivity should engage not only the researcher or the participants but also the field assistants. This praxis is crucial to enhancing the validity of studies conducted in a cross-cultural, cross-language environment across social science.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Soil management and soil properties in a Kenyan smallholder irrigation system on naturally low-fertile soils
- 2018
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Ingår i: Applied Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 0143-6228 .- 1873-7730. ; 90, s. 248-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study we examine the impact of soil management practices on soil properties in a landscape with naturally relatively poor soils on and below the dry slopes of a Rift Valley escarpment in Kenya that have been dominated by extensive smallholder investments in canal irrigation over the last 300 years. We show that farmers in the area have been able to keep up agricultural production in the face of growing population. The actual practices of soil management at one moment in time appear to be of minor importance to soil improvement, as indicated by the low correlation between Soil Management Index (SMI) and soil chemical data. However, cultivation triggers a process of slow soil improvement manifested by a positive correlation between nutrient levels and duration of irrigated cultivation and soil management, which likely explains farmers' confidence in soil productivity. However, we also identify sodicity as a risk connected to intensified irrigation in the area. Finally, we stress the need for further studies integrating investigations of local irrigation and soil management with soil and water quality analyses. These will be crucial to shape sustainable place-based and farmer-led solutions for African agricultural growth.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Water
- 2022
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Ingår i: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability : Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Water and Gender
- 2021
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Ingår i: Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Education. - : Oxford University Press.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Water relations are gendered, and there are various, differential socio-ecological and power dynamics that reify those relations at different spatial scales. There are multiple examples across the Global North and Global South that pinpoint the diverse productive and reproductive uses of water by men and women. Women, for instance, are more likely to be excluded from water management and decision making, while men are in control of water for agricultural production. Neoliberal framings of water in economic terms may exacerbate gender inequalities as neoliberal policies are often blind to the complex politics and power embedded in gender relations and water. Emerging literature on embodiment and emotions in waterscapes confronts neoliberal framings of water by theorizing the everyday lived experience of disenfranchised groups excluded from water management. Gendered studies of water relations focus largely on women, with limited attention to men. Male usage of water is often presented in relation to their role in water infrastructure management and design and water for leisure. As climate change becomes a more pressing issue in general society, existing uneven gendered relations of water resource use will be further exacerbated. With prevalent literature on gender relations focusing on women, future research needs to further incorporate studies of masculinity in gender relations to better inform adaptation and mitigation strategies. An understanding of gender and education would be insufficient without an understanding of both gender differentials in access to water and the gendered implications of climate change.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Water remains a blind spot in climate change policies.
- 2022
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Ingår i: PLOS Water. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 2767-3219. ; 1:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For the first time in the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), water has been the focus of dedicated chapters in both Working Group 1 (Chapter 8) and 2 (Chapter 4). Nevertheless, we argue here that water has not yet received the full attention it deserves from both scientists and policymakers for several reasons. Firstly, the historical focus on temperature change has been further increased with the use of global warming levels motivated by an aim to be consistent with current policy framings. Secondly, an increasing attention paid to extreme weather has sometimes overshadowed longer time-scale changes such as the aridification of an increasing fraction of arable land and the increasing variability of the water cycle from month to month, season to season, and year to year that also yield cascading impacts on all water use sectors. Thirdly, a stronger focus is needed on understanding the effectiveness of current and future adaptation strategies in reducing water-related climate risks. Finally, the role of water has not been adequately recognized in the assessment of mitigation strategies although the compliance with the Paris Agreement and the current pledges all require a massive deployment of land-based strategies whose feasibility and efficiency heavily depend on water resources. It is thus essential to develop a more integrated approach to water and climate change, that would allow scientists and policymakers to “close the loop” between mitigation options, water cycle changes, hydrological impacts and adaptation.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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“What kept me going was stubbornness” : Perspectives from Swedish early career women academics in geography
- 2016
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Ingår i: Investigaciones Feministas. - 2171-6080. ; 7:2, s. 89-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The rise of neoliberalism is creating inequalities for women as they balance their private lives and career trajectories. Geography as a middle sized discipline bridging the social and physical sciences offers insights into the ways neoliberal policies are felt by early career women (ECW). Using a life course model, this study presents the results of a workshop which sought to explore the ways in which women geographers, in Sweden, perceive and experience obstacles in their career advancement and which coping strategies they put in place to overcome those. The results show the blurring of the ECW ´s work and private lives. We find the experiences of ECW in Swedish geography departments are consistent with those of women in other countries. We conclude that ECW carry extra burdens in their career trajectories as academics due to increasingly neoliberal working environments, lack of mentorship, and an increasing pressure to produce measurable outputs and precarious employment. We argue that initiatives and programs aimed at retaining women in academia need to take on a broader perspective acknowledging the entanglement of women´s private and public spheres.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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“Who can play this game?” : The lived experiences of doctoral candidates and early career women in the neoliberal university
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of geography in higher education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0309-8265 .- 1466-1845. ; 42:2, s. 261-275
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Work intensification is a characteristic of the current neoliberal trend in academia. Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates and ECRs) in geography are no strangers to this development but are rarely the focus of publications or dialogue on the (gendered) outcomes of the academy’s neoliberal agenda. Encouraged by the recent emotional turn in the social sciences and humanities, this article seeks to unveil some of the everyday particulars of life in academia for PhD candidates and ECRs under the tide of financial cuts and increased competition for funding. We explore the question: “Who can – and indeed wants to – play this game?” As three early and one mid-career academic women in four different institutions in the Global North, we make use of reflexivity, autobiographical writing, and reflection, to analyze increasingly stressful and demanding working conditions. Through the depiction of our lived experiences, we contend that the push for ever increasing outputs attends most of our time and represents a distinctly different form of scholarship than has been traditionally considered as the pathway into academia, not seldom jeopardizing well-being of young academics, one that needs to be interrogated by geographers.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, et al.
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Women and Water : An Art-Based Academic-Community Partnership
- 2024
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Ingår i: Geohumanities. - 2373-566X. ; 10:1, s. 231-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women constitute most volunteer water stewards in West Virginia. After having conducted participatory research on the motivations behind women’s engagement with water preservation and restoration work we carried out two participatory art-based activities. In this Practices and Curations, we reflect on these two art-based activities to facilitate networking between researchers and participants and to communicate to the wider public the role of women water stewards. Together with community partners we first organized an icebreaker for women to share a boundary object that signified their connection with water. These boundary objects were subsequently displayed in an art exhibit highlighting women’s connection to water, their reasons for care work and the consistent role they had played in environmental preservation in West Virginia. We conclude by providing incitements to our fellow academics to engage with art in participatory geographical research as a learning experience that can overturn the common researcher-researched power dynamics.
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- Dickin, Sarah, et al.
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Examining water and gender narratives and realities
- 2022
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Ingår i: WIREs Water. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2049-1948. ; 9:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a wealth of scholarly knowledge that aims to disentangle the complex relationship between gender and water. This scholarship coupled with practitioners' collective experiences and insights have resulted in the emergence of certain narratives that describe how unequal gender relationships to water are manifested and how they can be addressed. In this paper, we critically examine four of these water and gender narratives, myths, or realities: Are women solely responsible for water collection? Are women excluded from the global water workforce? Is technology is sufficient enough to solve water-related gender inequalities? Does participation in design and implementation of water services address gender inequalities? By reviewing existing evidence underlying these water and gender narratives that are prominent in much academic research and international programming, we show the nuances of water and gender relationships, and the discrepancies upon which these narratives are grounded. We draw on examples and research largely focusing on the Global South, but highlight a need for similar examination of these narratives in the Global North. Finally, we discuss remaining knowledge gaps and argue that these normative understandings overlook limited and potentially contradicting evidence on the intricacies of the relationship between gender and water. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Engineering Water > Water, Health, and Sanitation
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- Duong, Sandra, et al.
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Migration with dignity : — en studie om klimatsanpassning i Kiribati
- 2015
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Ingår i: Geografiska Notiser. - 0016-724X. ; 73:3, s. 120-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Små östater med utvecklingsstatus (SIDS – Small Island Developing States) erkändes formellt som en unik grupp länder med specifika hållbarhetsutmaningar vid FN:s konferens om miljö och utveckling i Rio de Janeiro år 1992 (FN 1992). Små önationer omnämns ofta som att vara i frontlinjen för klimatförändringar på grund av sina lågt liggande kustländer av ringa storlek, sina begränsade resurser, sin ömtåliga naturmiljö och geografiska spridning som görde isolerade från marknader. Klimatförändringar, i form av förhöjda temperaturer och havsnivåer, kommer att ha stora effekter på beboeligheten på dessa öar, framförallt längs kustområden där de flesta människor idag lever. Andra allvarliga följder av klimatförändringar är ökad förekomst och intensitet av stormfloder, cykloner, och översvämningar, samt minskad tillförlitlighet för nederbörd.
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- Faria, Caroline V, et al.
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Care in/through the archives: Postcolonial intersectional moves in feminist geographic research
- 2021
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Ingår i: Emotion, Space and Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 1755-4586. ; 39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What does a postcolonial ethics of care mean for feminist geographers doing archival work? Feminist geographers have long called for ethical research engagement. This asserts the importance of caring relationships with research mentees, collaborators, participants, and spaces. But care comes both with promise and pitfalls. As postcolonial and antiracist geographers argue, we must emplace care. That is, we must recognize that care, including caring feminist geographic practice, is grounded in colonial past-presents. We must work towards responsible ontologies and epistemologies that attend to and redress these histories. In this article, we draw on feminist postcolonial work on care (namely Raghuram et al. (2009) and Noxolo et al. (2012)) along with intersectional interventions in archival studies (Hartman, 2008; Cifor and Wood, 2017; Sutherland, 2017) to examine the politics of care in and through the archives. We draw on postcolonial interventions to reflect on our own archival geographic practice in the USA, the Dominican Republic, and Uganda. We use these accounts to make visible how caring archival practice, and critical archives of care, can shed light on, reinforce, or salve deep geohistories of heteropatriarchal colonialism and its aftermath. We assert that a postcolonial approach to care denaturalizes and spatializes racial power in feminist geographic practice, here via the archives.
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- Higgins, Lindsey, et al.
(författare)
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Lake extent changes in Basotu, Tanzania : a mixed-methods approach to understanding the impacts of anthropogenic influence and climate variability
- 2019
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Ingår i: Landscape research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 44:1, s. 35-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Incompatible land use is a major contributor to ecosystem degradation, and is often exacerbated by climate change impacts. We investigate Lake Basotu, Tanzania as a case study where natural lake variability has been affected by agricultural land use. Comparisons between a satellite-derived history of lake surface area, local precipitation records, and corresponding anthropogenic activity show the impacts of agricultural and historical practices. We argue that insufficient consideration to the wider ecological impacts of large agricultural projects has lasting implications. This is particularly true in semi-arid environments where food production demands need to be continuously met. In the future, major conservation strategies should be investigated to maintain the environmental integrity and sustainability of freshwater resources.
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- Jokinen, Johanna C., et al.
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When bodies do not fit: an analysis of postgraduate fieldwork
- 2016
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Ingår i: Gender, Place and Culture. - 0966-369X .- 1360-0524. ; 23:12, s. 1665-1676
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist geographers are increasingly examining embodied aspects ofresearch. These embodied dimensions of fieldwork often build uponintersecting positionalities, yet studies focusing on bodily limitationsencountered by feminists in the field are relatively few. In this article, weexplore what it is like to be bodies that do not fit easily into the contextwithin which they are supposed to be doing fieldwork. We are both femalepostgraduate students conducting fieldwork in the Global South. We haveencountered, many times over, instances where, because of our sick andfatigued bodies, we have not been able to continue our work. We questionthe normalization of able-bodied postgraduate students by problematizingour own experiences, and argue that discourses of ability dominate fieldwork,in both its expectations and its conduct. This is especially the case for thosewith invisible disabilities because researchers may appear healthy but arenot. As a result, postgraduate students may jeopardize their health for thesake of their research.
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- Lissner, Tabea K., et al.
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Effectiveness of water-related adaptation decreases with increasing warming
- 2024
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Ingår i: One Earth. - 2590-3330. ; 7:3, s. 444-454
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adaptation is central to address climate impacts. At present, we have a limited understanding of the effectiveness of adaptation to reduce risks in a warming world, because adaptation remains insufficiently addressed in climate impact projections. Where projections exist, these are assessed mostly in case study settings. The importance of water is apparent within the field of climate adaptation, with the majority of documented and projected adaptation related to water. Based on a meta-review of projections of adaptation, we assess the ability of different modeled water-related adaptation options to reduce climate risk at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C, and 4°C of warming and show that the effectiveness of the assessed options decreases with increasing warming across all world regions and options. Although adaptation benefits can be achieved for many regions, increasing maladaptive outcomes are projected at higher levels of warming. Our analysis highlights the urgent need to limit global warming by drastically reducing emissions to avoid catastrophic impacts.
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- Luzynski, Cheyenne, et al.
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Vulnerability and affective solidarity : Feminist assemblies in Appalachia under and after the Trump presidency
- 2024
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - 0968-6673. ; 31:3, s. 1072-1091
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the 2016 elections, several feminist groups emerged in the U.S. in response to the election of President Trump. This manuscript focuses on a feminist assembly located in marginal and conservative Appalachia. Grounded in reflexivity, we employ affective solidarity to better understand feminist organizing in a post-Trump rural Appalachian town. Based on a collaborative ethnography, including the National Organization of Women's local chapter members, conducted between 2016 and 2022, we analyze how political engagement has been initiated by an affective response—vulnerability, misery, rage, passion, and hope. By organizing open houses, marches, and voter guides, this group's outreach strives to inform and engage community members in dialogs around women's rights to improve gender equality in West Virginia, a state historically characterized by a conservative, heteronormative, patriarchal, and anti-abortion mentality. We show how the dissonance between Trump's glorification of these ideologies and our affective responses served as a mechanism for feminist solidarity. This paper uses Butlerian principles to explore how vulnerability and resistance shape a feminist social movement held together by affective solidarity. We argue that responses to threats prompted by the Trump Presidency have been critical to the resurgence of our feminist agency and political engagement where conservative and masculine ideologies impose control over vulnerable populations. This paper advances the knowledge of vulnerability and agency and contributes to the literature on assemblies for political resistance.
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- Mace, Amber, et al.
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Postdoktoral karriär vid Stockholms universitet ur ett jämställdhetsperspektiv : Rapport från Centrala Doktorandrådet (CDR)
- 2015
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Several previous studies indicate that among newly graduated PhDs, women tend to continue with a postdoctoral academic career to a lesser extent than men do. The Central PhD Student Council (CDR) has investigated to what degree this is also the case for Stockholm University. Using various sources, the relative change of the gender balance of PhD students compared to researchers at a postdoctoral level has been assessed at the four faculties of Stockholm University.For the Faculty of Science, the four different sections have been analysed as well. CDR finds that it is first and foremost at this faculty that a clear change in the gender balance between PhD students and postdoctoral researchers is discerned. Even though the variations between the individual departments and sections at the faculty are large, as a whole the relative decrease of the proportion of women is between 11 % and 21 %, depending on what metric is used. The dropoff of female researchers takes place primarily in already male-dominated areas of research.Unlike at the other faculties, we also find that the proportion of female senior lecturers at the Faculty of Science is lower than what could be expected. The proportion of female professors, even among new recruits, is still lower than the population of hypothetical recruits at all faculties – except at the Faculty of Humanities. We do, however, note that the proportion of female professors at the Faculty of Science is currently increasing and approaching that of the population of hypothetical recruits. At the Faculty of Social Sciences we see that, compared to the rest of the faculty, the proportion of women within the educational sciences is considerably higher and when excluding these subjects the trend towards more female professors disappears.CDR concludes that it is important to increase the directed efforts to encourage support to newly graduated female PhDs within male-dominated areas to stay in academia. Furthermore, it is crucial to study the reasons for a larger female drop-off within certain areas of research in the transition from PhD studies to a postdoctoral level. We further consider it important to ensure that women are given the same possibilities as men to qualify themselves scientifically and not be burdened with teaching and administrative duties to a larger extent than men are.
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