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Women's Impact on Environmental Governance

Reclaiming the Commons through Knowledge, Care, and Culture

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Women's Impact on Environmental Governance

Reclaiming the Commons through Knowledge, Care, and Culture

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Women's Impact on Environmental Governance: Reclaiming the Commons through Knowledge, Care, and Culture assembles geographically diverse analyses of case studies from around the world to demonstrate how women interact with global drivers of change to create new governance structures, subvert existing governance structures, or adapt their informal structures to reclaim their commons. Drawing upon case studies from Bangladesh, Peru, the United States, Tanzania and Kenya, and Chile, the book's authors address the question: How do women reclaim their culture and resources from the impacts of global change by enacting processes of formal and informal governance? The authors argue that women are essential actors in processes of both environmental and economic governance. Yet, their labor often goes unrecognized as power dynamics between and across genders shape access, control, and care of a resource or property and both state-level policymaking and international development frequently reinforce women's marginalization. However, women's work underpins economic, environmental, and community sustainability and they persist to overcome, subvert, or circumnavigate forms of enclosure in the commons. As both an ode to women's work and a call to policymakers and development agencies to recognize women's labor, this book illustrates how women draw upon knowledge, care, and culture to improve social, economic, and ecological well-being.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Prologue
Sarah A. Ebel

Chapter 1. Gender Inequalities at the Nexus of Markets, Livelihoods, and Institutions in the Sundarbans Mangrove
Mohammed Abdul Baten and Christine M. Beitl

Chapter 2. Keeping the Commons: Quechua Women's Collaborative Networks in Peruvian Pastoralism
Allison Caine

Chapter 3. The Costs of Living in Area M: Enclosure, Indigeneity, and Women's Work in Aleut/Unangax^ Communities
Katherine Reedy

Chapter 4. A Collaborative Approach to Conceptualizing Care Labour in Agroecology: Case Studies from Women's Rights and Agroecology Organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia Through the Rural Women Cultivating Change Project (RWCC)
Sheila Rao, Doris Munyingi, Anna Mwara, Julia Kamau, Martha Nemera, and Lauren Brander

Chapter 5. No nos falta nada: How Women Reclaim the Commons through Environmental and Economic Governance in Southern Chile
Jillian Everly, Sarah Ebel, and Gonzalo Saavedra Gallo

References

Index

About the Contributors

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 28 May 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9781978759558
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 20 b/w
Series Environment and Society
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sarah A. Ebel

Anthology Editor

Katherine L. Reedy

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