02192 a2200397 4500 135172990X 20250317111608.0 250312042019GB eng 9781351729901 Taylor & Francis GBP 34.99 BB 01 eng RGL thema RGC thema RNF thema JBSF thema JHM thema JHB thema 1FK bisac RGL bic RGC bic RNF bic JFSJ bic JHM bic JHB bic 1FK bisac SCI030000 bisac TEC010000 bisac 307.14172095412 bisac Sarah Jewitt Environment, Knowledge and Gender Local Development in India’s Jharkhand 1 Oxford Routledge 20190731 382 p This title was first published in 2002: Tracing global shifts in development thinking through to national-level policy making in India and its local-scale implications, Sarah Jewitt investigates the practical value of radical populist and eco-feminist alternatives to more mainstream forms of development. Using detailed empirical data on forests and agriculture from two adivasi (tribal) villages in India, she takes a micro-political ecology approach to examine inter- and intra-community (especially gender) variations in environmental knowledge, resource management strategies and development aspirations. Critiquing the adoption of romanticized eco-feminist discourse in policymaking, Jewitt studies the Jharkhand region of Bihar, India, to determine women’s contribution to environmental degradation and how the implementation of environmentally-oriented development initiatives affects their daily lives. She also examines the populist concern about the displacement of traditional agro-ecological practices by modern techniques, and illustrates the need to understand local people’s socio-cultural beliefs and aspirations as well as their technical knowledge when seeking to promote more appropriate development. 4690 4690