Gender and Power in the Use and Management of Coastal Space and Resources in Saadani Village, Tanzania

"Mwanamke Shughuli" A recent approach to understanding local uses of the environment proposes to look at the environment as "a context through which cultural constructions of both environment and gender are created and recreated" (Leach 1992 :76). This paper examines the various...

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1. Verfasser: Mwaipopo, Rosemarie R.N.
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: Bulletin de l’APAD 2006
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:"Mwanamke Shughuli" A recent approach to understanding local uses of the environment proposes to look at the environment as "a context through which cultural constructions of both environment and gender are created and recreated" (Leach 1992 :76). This paper examines the various ways in which women in particular participate in the construction and reconstruction of the coastal environment, influenced by individual understandings of power. Through these understandings, women modify local disc...