Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities

Awards:   Winner of K.D. Srivastava Award 2004. Winner of K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press 2004 (Canada)
Author:   Maureen G. Reed
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9780774810173


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 May 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Winner of K.D. Srivastava Award 2004.
  • Winner of K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press 2004 (Canada)

Overview

Environmental activism in rural places frequently pits residents whose livelihood depends on resource extraction against those who seek to protect natural spaces and species. While many studies have focused on women who seek to protect the natural environment, few have explored the perspectives of women who seek to maintain resource use. This book goes beyond the dichotomies of pro and anti environmentalism to tell the stories of these women. Maureen Reed uses participatory action research to explain the experiences of women who seek to protect forestry as an industry, a livelihood, a community, and a culture. She links their experiences to policy making by considering the effects of environmental policy changes on the social dynamics of workplaces, households, and communities in forestry towns of British Columbia's temperate rainforest. The result is a critical commentary about the social dimensions of sustainability in rural communities. A powerful and challenging book, Taking Stands provides a crucial understanding of community change in resource-dependent regions, and helps us to better tackle the complexities of gender and activism as they relate to rural sustainability. Social and environmental geographers, feminist scholars, and those engaged in rural studies, environmental sustainability, and community planning will find it invaluable.

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Author:   Maureen G. Reed
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780774810173


ISBN 10:   0774810173
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Seeing the Trees among Women in ForestryCommunities 2. Transition and Social Marginalization of Forestry Communities 3. Policy and Structural Change in Rural British Columbia 4. Women and Woods Work: The Gender of Forestry Jobs 5. Women's Lives, Husbands' Wives: Managing Forestry Communities 6. Communities Confront Outsiders 7. Fitting In: Making a Place for Gender in Environmental and LandUse Planning 8. Social Sustainability and the Renewal of Research Agendas Epilogue Appendix: Describing and Reflecting on Research Methods Notes References I ndex

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Maureen Reed has created a significant and sophisticated study that will establish a benchmark not only in how we understand and engage with community change and debate in resource-dependent regions, but also in how we conceptualize gender, women, and activism in those debates. -- Greg Halseth, Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, Geography, University of Northern British Columbia An excellent handling of a complex and highly controversial topic ... It will make its mark on the world stage, inform feminist and environmental activism and theory, and help Canadians make sense of our poorly understood and badly maligned forestry sector. -- Karen Krug * Alternatives, 29:4, Fall 2003 *


An excellent handling of a complex and highly controversial topic ... It will make its mark on the world stage, inform feminist and environmental activism and theory, and help Canadians make sense of our poorly understood and badly maligned forestry sector. -- Karen Krug * Alternatives, 29:4, Fall 2003 * Maureen Reed has created a significant and sophisticated study that will establish a benchmark not only in how we understand and engage with community change and debate in resource-dependent regions, but also in how we conceptualize gender, women, and activism in those debates. -- Greg Halseth, Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, Geography, University of Northern British Columbia


Maureen Reed has created a significant and sophisticated study that will establish a benchmark not only in how we understand and engage with community change and debate in resource-dependent regions, but also in how we conceptualize gender, women, and activism in those debates. -- Greg Halseth, Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, Geography, University of Northern British Columbia An excellent handling of a complex and highly controversial topic ... It will make its mark on the world stage, inform feminist and environmental activism and theory, and help Canadians make sense of our poorly understood and badly maligned forestry sector. -- Karen Krug Alternatives, 29:4, Fall 2003


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Maureen G. Reed is a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of Saskatchewan.

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