This volume is an exposition on the particularities of gender in the contextof geographical concepts of 'space' and 'time'. It discusses the impact of global processes on the idea of locality and includes case studies from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. The resurrection of geography now plays a significant role in social science theories. This volume critically analyses the debate surrounding the social and conceptual formations of 'space 'and 'place' to understand how such boundaries intersect with gender. The essaysargue that spaces and places are social and ideological constructs. What is significant is the implication of power in the production of spaces and places as they are ideologically organized to maintain established hierarchies.Thematically organized, the essays examine a range of topical issues such as national and transnational identities, women's livelihoods, migration, violence against women, mining, environment, poverty alleviation, and family, as alsothe engagement of market forces with patriarchal structures, the fluidity of the 'public' and the 'private' and everyday negotiations and contestations, inthe context of the South Asian countries. The volume explores the impact of global processes on the idea oflocality and its consequences for the lives of women in countries like India,Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. INDICE: List of Tables and Figures Preface PART I:Introduction, Introduction: Conceptualizing Gender, Space and Place (Saraswati Raju) PART II: Nationaland Transnational Identities and Social Spaces and Places: The Making of Gendered Geography in India (Sarawati Raju) Women's Livelihoods in a TransnationalSocial Space: Labour Migration from Far West Nepal to Delhi, India (Susan Thieme, Ulrike Mller-Bker, Norman Backhaus) Bangladeshi Migrant Women in Malaysia- Transgressing Space and Place (Anja Rudnick) Identities in Conflict: Women's spaces in Eastern Sri Lanka (Una Hombrecher and Eva Gerharz) Emerging Feminist Space Politicizes Violence against Women (Monica Erwr) Part III: Gendered Struggles in Livelihood Spaces and Places: The geographers' burden: What does the work of kamins in Indian collieries tell us about the mining industry? (Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) Embodied Rural Weaver's Workplaces: Developing Gender Self-Employment Agenda for the Handloom Cooperatives (Jyotirmayee Acharya) Spatial Agendas for Decision-Making in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh: The Influence of Place, Class and Caste on Women's Role in Environmental Management (Sarah Jewitt and Kathleen Baker) Contextualizing Credit Program, Poverty Alleviation and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study from Rural Sri Lanka (Seela Aladuwaka and Ann M. Oberhauser) Part IV: Everyday Spaces and Places - Negotiations and Contestations: The Farmer and Her Family: Negotiating Motherhood and Livelihood in the Karakoram, Pakistan (Sarah J. Halvorson) Spaces of Power, Places of Hardship: Rethinking Spaces and Places through a Gendered Geography of Water (FarhanaSultana) Notes on Contributors.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-807257-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 15/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés