Masculinities in forests : representations of diversity / Carol J. Pierce Colfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colfer, Carol J. Pierce, author.

Series:

Earthscan forest library

The Earthscan Forest Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Social aspects.

Forests and forestry.

Forest management--Social aspects.

Forest management.

Masculinity.

Sex role in the work environment.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how these relate to forest management. While forestry is widely considered a masculine domain, a significant portion of the literature on gender and development focuses on the role of women, not men. This book addresses this gap and also highlights how there are significant, demonstrable differences in masculinities from forest to forest. The book develops a simple conceptual framework for considering masculinities, one which both acknowledges the stability or enduring quality of masculinities, but also the significant masculinity-related options available to individual men within any given culture. The author draws on her own experiences, building on her long-term experience working globally in the conservation and development worlds, also observing masculinities among such professionals. The core of the book examines masculinities, based on long term ethnographic research in the rural Pacific Northwest of the United States; Long Segar, East Kalimantan; and Sitiung, West Sumatra, both in Indonesia. The author concludes by pulling together the various strands of masculine identities and discussing the implications of these various versions of masculinity for forest management. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of forestry, gender studies and conservation and development, as well as practitioners and NGOs working in these fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Masculinities in forests: here and there, then and now

2. [Remembered] American masculinities from my girlhood (1940s

1970s)

3. Immersion in rural America: the case of Bushier Bay

4. Masculinities and muted gender in Bali and Kalimantan

5. Masculinities in conflict in West Sumatra

6. Masculinities among `the development set'

7. Revisits to old haunts (with Andrew Balan Pierce and Sufiet Erlita)

8. The relevance of masculinities for forests and their management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Colfer, Carol J. Pierce. Masculinities in forests

ISBN:

9780367403898

0367403897

9780367417000

0367417006

OCLC:

1178867559