ABSTRACT
This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development.
Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book’s editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals – specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points – deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future.
This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and women’s studies more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |24 pages
Introduction: Troubling gender expertise in environment and development
part 1|72 pages
The politics of identity and boundary marking
chapter 1|15 pages
Strategic reflexivity in linking gender equality with sustainable energy
chapter 2|11 pages
Is epistemic authority masculine?
chapter 5|16 pages
Challenges and dilemmas of integrating gender in the field of environment and development at SEI
part 2|100 pages
The politics of knowledge in environment and development realms
chapter 7|16 pages
Embodied engagement with gender and agrobiodiversity
chapter 8|13 pages
Please genderise my log frame
chapter 10|10 pages
Disaster risk governance and gender professionals
chapter 12|13 pages
We build the power in empowerment
part 3|34 pages
The power of gender champions