ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to discuss and explain people's experiences of two related but often treated as distinct drivers of development and change in Southeast Asia today: large-scale development investments, and climate change and disasters. It discusses political ecology and its sub-field feminist political ecology, to be followed by a mix of original and secondary case studies conducted in parts of the region. The chapter highlights the agile capacities of feminist political ecology to attend to people's socially and politically grounded and gender-differentiated experiences of livelihoods, and addresses the multi-scaled drivers that generate and maintain inequality, injustice, vulnerability and disadvantage in their lives. It demonstrates how changes in people's gendered lives and livelihoods in Southeast Asia are driven by large-scale development investments and climate change and disasters. Gender, livelihoods and environment are powerful prisms with which to view and unpack processes of development in Southeast Asia.
