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- Title
Women's risk and well-being at the intersection of dowry, patriarchy, and conservation: The gendering of human–wildlife conflict.
- Authors
Doubleday, Kalli F; Adams, Paul C
- Abstract
Drawing on work in feminist political ecologies and employing a grounded theory approach, this article examines the socio-spatial links between the patriarchal tradition of dowry, tigers, and women's well-being. It shows how a landscape governed for conservation purposes can produce embodied and material harm for women living under a patriarchal system. Focus groups conducted in eastern Rajasthan, India, reveal how human–tiger interaction, even if primarily potential rather than actual, initiates a chain of social impacts that presents severe risks to women's well-being, mental health, and life itself. Analysis connecting the pressures of dowry (financial, physical, and psychological) to tiger presence helps expose the presumptions of unfairness, intra-household power dynamics, and hidden costs of human–wildlife cohabitation while supporting calls for the inclusion of women's perspectives in environmental theory and management.
- Subjects
WELL-being; FEMINISTS; POLITICAL ecology; PATRIARCHY; SOCIAL impact
- Publication
Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2020, Vol 3, Issue 4, p976
- ISSN
2514-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2514848619875664