10.9. Svarstad
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
Speaker: Hanne Svarstad
hanne.svarstad -at- nina.no
Unit for Human—Environment Studies, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway
Title of the talk: Biodiversity, local participation and gender - Or: The introduction of a feminist political ecology (pdf: 1MB)
Summary of the talk by Marte Qvenild: Students´ summary (pdf)
Abstract
Biodiversity, local participation and gender - Or: The introduction of a feminist political ecologyThere have been decades after decades with focus on gender issues. Nevertheless, gender equality remains a neglected dimension in biodiversity conservation in Europe as well as in the rest of the world. In this presentation I will start describing the situation with some examples, then move on to the following questions: Does it really matter? How can it be explained? And: Can something be done about it? As students and researchers we are dependent on good research approaches to frame and carry out our research. I will introduce the tradition of political ecology and a more specific version of a feminist political ecology. These hold useful perspectives and tools to the study of the mentioned questions as well as to other questions on how landscapes and biodiversity are and could be conserved and sustainably used.
Recommended background literature on this presentation:
- Svarstad H (2005) A global political ecology of bioprospecting. In: Paulson S, Gezon LL (eds) Political ecology across spaces, scales, and social groups. Rutgers University Press, 239-256.
- Svarstad H, Petersen LK, Rothman D, Siepel H, Wätzold F (2007) Discursive biases of the environmental research framework DPSIR. Land Use Policy 25:116-125, doi 10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.03.005
- Svarstad H, Daugstad K, Vistad OI, Guldvik I (2006) New protected areas in Norway: Local participation without gender equality. Mountain Research and Development 26:48-54 http://www.mrd-journal.org/pdf/Svarstad_et_al_MRD26_1_pp48-54.pdf
