Books: author, editor, coauthor, or coeditor by Susan Paulson
Agenda Publishing eBooks, Sep 4, 2018
Routledge, 2016
This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrang... more This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy, and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by gender practices and expectations that involve men in different ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power relations between differently positioned masculine groups. Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern relations among humans and between humans and their environment.
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American Anthropologist, 2006
Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds. Ne... more Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 289 pp.
This monograph builds a new approach to the interaction of gender systems with socioeconomic and ... more This monograph builds a new approach to the interaction of gender systems with socioeconomic and environmental changes, and applies this approach in the analysis of regional trends in Latin America over the past 25 years, together with national and territorial analyses. The book’s main objectives are to advance a theoretical and methodological approach not found in other studies of socioeconomic and environmental change, and to describe undocumented aspects of change underway in rural Latin America. This project differs from existing books on gender in several ways. First, while most prioritize women and gender, and some focus on men and masculinities, this book considers both realms. Second, instead of concentrating on the activities and conditions of individual men and women, this book explores how these factors, together with gendered institutions and resources, interact and play out in territorial dynamics. And third, rather than trace unidirectional impacts of historical proces...
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Territorio y género son fenómenos históricos y geográficos: sus expresiones materiales e instituc... more Territorio y género son fenómenos históricos y geográficos: sus expresiones materiales e institucionales cambian con el tiempo y el espacio, mientras sus manifestaciones moldean la forma en que las personas perciben y actúan en cada contexto. Este libro analiza las interacciones entre los sistemas de género y los procesos históricos en América Latina durante los últimos 25 años, sobre la base de varios estudios territoriales ubicados dentro de las tendencias nacionales y regionales. Propone una nueva conceptualización del género como un sistema sociocultural que estructura e impregna de significado y poder las prácticas y las relaciones humanas, y que influye en el desarrollo institucional y en la gestión de los recursos, todo con referencia simbólica al sexo y a la sexualidad. Con el fin de construir un acercamiento más sistémico, el libro promueve un mayor interés por los cambios radicales que afectan a los hombres en formas diferentes que a las mujeres, así como a los roles que juegan las normas y las expectativas masculinas en el cambio socioambiental.
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Esta obra reúne cuatro estudios recientes sobre las relaciones entre género y ambiente en el Ecua... more Esta obra reúne cuatro estudios recientes sobre las relaciones entre género y ambiente en el Ecuador, en los cuales el género es analizado como un sistema cultural que organiza e imprime significados a los cuerpos, ambientes, prácticas, creencias e instituciones. Las preguntas y perspectivas abiertas por los estudios publicados en este libro son el testimonio de una producción intelectual que contribuye a la construcción de una sociedad y un ambiente más sanos, más equitativos y más sostenibles en el Ecuador.
Ediciones Abya-Yala : Programa Bosques, Arboles y Comunidades Rurales, 1998
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Articles by Susan Paulson
Deleted Journal, 2023
Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of cha... more Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems. Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodox degrowth movements. In dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, indigenous, and anti-racist efforts, intersectional feminisms have been unlearning and disrupting conventional politics of knowing and action in ways that help forge more inclusive understandings and applications necessary for degrowth futures.
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Reviews, 2019
This review article supports researchers and practitioners to strengthen attention to variously p... more This review article supports researchers and practitioners to strengthen attention to variously positioned men and masculine identities in order to increase the rigour of empirical research and to enhance outcomes of work addressing environmental issues. Masculinities interact with other factors to shape patterns of environmental management and to influence responses to environmental challenges; at the same time, human-environment dynamics produce differing expressions and experiences of masculinity. Yet, environmental initiatives implemented in many contexts and scales have been hindered by lack of attention to gendered conditions, identities and expectations associated with diversely positioned men. Theoretically, studies gathered here strive to overcome these limitations by applying concepts of plural masculinities, intersectionality and hegemonic masculinity. Methodologically, this body of work challenges universalizing stereotypes about men by situating empirical studies in specific sociocultural, ethnoracial, ecological and geographical contexts around the world. The 160 publications reviewed here illuminate three realms: productive enterprises including logging, mining, petroleum exploitation, ranching and agroindustry; lifeways and attitudes involving care for health, families and nature; and environmental crises, from disasters to refugees and climate change. Evidence in each realm suggests that some masculine-identified behaviours, attitudes and resources are intertwined with environmentally destructive processes, while others support, or can support, moves toward dynamics that are healthier for humans and non-human nature. After considering skills, tools and frameworks for further research and practice, the review ends with a look at challenges of developing more systemic approaches to gender and environment. Review Methodology: Recent publications were sought through University of Florida library databases and Google Scholar, seeking key terms masculinity/masculinities together with agriculture, agroforestry, conservation, ecological impact, climate change and health. Literature reviewed reflects Paulson's 30 years of research, teaching and practice in agricultural and agroforestry contexts in Latin America. Boose contributes perspectives from graduate research on labour experiences of motorcycle taxi drivers in Iquitos, Perú and from family farming history in Illinois. The scope of this article does not allow coverage of all topics relevant for the masculinities-environment nexus; areas including urban planning, waste management, transportation, information technology, water resources, fishing and coastal management, hunting, education, violence, racialization, migration, heteronormativity and non-binary gender are saved for complementary instalments.
In varied contexts around the world, groups and communities forging different kinds of futures ar... more In varied contexts around the world, groups and communities forging different kinds of futures are challenging the universal desirability of development toward ever-greater production, consumption, and ecological footprints. This article is about learning from some of those pathways in order to broaden horizons for conversations about degrowth beyond Europe where they first gained traction. It reviews empirical research on wide-ranging phenomena, and documents processes of mutual learning among researchers from varied cultural, linguistic, and national backgrounds. Affirmative political ecology is appraised as a framework for analyzing relations among differently shaped phenomena operating in different contexts and on various scales, and for supporting life-affirming efforts to co-construct worlds that might be healthier and happier for more people and other nature. Pluriverse is explored as an epistemological stance and a dialogic method to enhance appreciation of multiple ways of ...
Convivial Futures
This chapter explores convivial conservation, an emerging paradigm that supports care and interde... more This chapter explores convivial conservation, an emerging paradigm that supports care and interdependence among human and other life toward purposes of mutual regeneration and thriving. Rather than defending endangered nature from destructive people, this approach fosters intertwined human-environment care, wellbeing, and justice on multiple scales. During decades of ethnographic research in South America, we coauthors have witnessed and reflected on practices and conditions that variously support or constrain convivial conservation. The following scenes from our learning experiences offer glimpses into life-worlds that enrich horizons of possibility for other kinds of populations who face the challenge of developing ways to live together with meaning and joy, while reducing the degrading exploitation of humans and other nature. One September afternoon in 2014 in the Colca Valley of Peru's southern Andes, where Hirsch conducted two years of ethnographic research, he filmed three farmers singing to their land after a satisfying day of collaborative labor. The bass-toned voices of Dons Máximo, Sabino, and Gerardo reverberated down multiple terraces into the valley below, beseeching the earth to allow the seeds they had just planted to be warm and to bear fruit. Before singing, they had hydrated themselves and the terrain with chicha, a drink of fermented maize and barley that marks rituals and celebrations. In a chant called Hialeo, their Quechua-language verses shouted out the name of the feminine-gendered terrain,
General Anthropology, Mar 1, 2022
Anthropologie et sociétés, Jun 23, 2020
Cet article défend un concept de « conservation conviviale », conçu ici comme « un effort visant ... more Cet article défend un concept de « conservation conviviale », conçu ici comme « un effort visant à établir des interdépendances vitales entre les humains et les écosystèmes, en vue de leur régénération mutuelle ». En nous appuyant sur des recherches ethnographiques que nous avons menées auprès de communautés subalternes d’Amérique latine, autochtones ou non, nous nous concentrons sur les communautés rurales brésiliennes de squatters apparues dans les années 1990 en opposition aux économies de plantation qui ont provoqué la dégradation de la vie humaine et non humaine. Dans les discours et les écrits des travailleurs de la conservation et de l’environnement, les membres de ces communautés de squatters non autochtones sont parfois dépeints comme des adversaires ignorants — voire hostiles — de la nature, et leur recours à la culture sur brûlis est condamné comme étant destructeur. Alors que ces familles tentent de remédier à des injustices distributives de longue date qui leur ont porté préjudice, nous découvrons de nouveaux engagements en faveur de la conservation de la nature, tels que les efforts des squatters pour cultiver des espèces d’arbres autochtones dans leurs agroforêts. Ces engagements non utilitaires pour la conservation des arbres autochtones défient les présupposés d’un courant idéologique qui alimente diverses approches de la conservation de la nature — qu’il s’agisse de la « sanctuarisation de la nature », que ces approches soient « participatives » ou axées sur le « développement » — qui font de différentes populations humaines des « gardiennes » quasi naturelles ou des « ennemies » de la nature. Cherchant à aller au-delà de ce courant idéologique, nous examinons les possibilités de conservation de la nature en dehors des zones de conservation officielles. Nous soutenons que la réparation des injustices distributives de longue date peut favoriser des pratiques humaines qui reproduisent conjointement des processus socioculturels et biophysiques.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2018
Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical ... more Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the conditions of its realization require additional study. Research on degrowth has reinvigorated the limits to growth debate with critical examination of the historical, cultural, social, and political forces that have made economic growth a dominant objective. Here we review studies of economic stability in the absence of growth and of societies that have managed well without growth. We reflect on forms of technology and democracy com-patible with degrowth and discuss plausible openings for a degrowth transition. This dynamic and productive research agenda asks inconvenient questions that sustainability scie...
Journal of Political Ecology
Harmful environmental consequences of growth have been rigorously documented and widely publicize... more Harmful environmental consequences of growth have been rigorously documented and widely publicized throughout the past half-century. Yet, the quantity of matter and energy used by human economies continues to increase by the minute, while governments and businesses continue to promise and to prioritize further economic growth. Such a paradox raises questions about how we humans change course. This introduction to a Special Section offers a new theoretical approach to change, together with glimpses of adaptations underway around the world. It directs attention away from individual decision-making and toward systems of culture and power through which socialized humans and socioecological worlds are (re)produced, sustained and adapted. Potential for transformative change is found in habitual practices through which skills, perspectives, denials and desires are viscerally embodied, and in cultural systems (economic, religious, gender and other) that govern those practices and make them ...
International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 2000
This paper approaches the cultural body as a dynamic nexus of interaction between biophysical fac... more This paper approaches the cultural body as a dynamic nexus of interaction between biophysical factors and diverse social environments in Bolivia. The discussion develops insights from four recent studies that explore the beliefs, practices, and relations that give shape and meaning to sexuality and reproductive health in Bolivia. Visions and voices of women and men with varying sexualities and identities shed critical light on a number of common theoretical assumptions about gender.
El presente documento intenta estimular la construcción e implementación de estrategias de invest... more El presente documento intenta estimular la construcción e implementación de estrategias de investigación e incidencia con perspectivas de género que coadyuven los procesos y fortalezcan los resultados de DTR. Este documento ofrece un marco teórico para construir un acercamiento sistémico que coadyuve los objetivos DTR, una guía metodológica para el análisis de las dinámicas de género estudiadas y descritas hasta la fecha por el programa. El desafío de explicar el desarrollo territorial exitoso conlleva una serie de interrogativas específicas relacionadas con género. En este documento se plantean, se intentan resolver y se proponen estrategias a considerar a la hora de hacer estudios y/o análisis de género. Con estos aportes se pretende cimentar el camino hacia una mejora en la calidad y especificidad de las investigaciones empíricas, en la formulación de recomendaciones para programas y políticas de desarrollo que influyen en el territorio, y también en la disminución de prejuicios ideológicos y uso de categorías inadecuadas en los procesos investigativos, que conducen a conclusiones sesgadas.
Working papers, 2011
El presente informe reporta y analiza los resultados de la investigación sobre las relaciones de ... more El presente informe reporta y analiza los resultados de la investigación sobre las relaciones de los sistemas de género en los hogares rurales de los sub-territorios productores de maíz duro y café en Loja, Ecuador. Las nuevas redes de producción de café y maíz han generado cambios en las dinámicas económicas del sector rural mencionado. En el sub-territorio productor de café se evidencia una mejora modesta pero distribuida del crecimiento económico con la adopción de un sistema de producción y comercialización del policultivo del café de altura que potencia la sustentabilidad ambiental. El sub-territorio productor de maíz demuestra un crecimiento económico importante, cierta concentración de los ingresos, acompañado de un deterioro ambiental por el uso extendido e intensificado de agroquímicos. Los roles, relaciones y prácticas de hombres y mujeres han condicionado, influido, y han sido afectados la manera en que estos cambios se han desarrollado y han modificado los sub-territorios.
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Masculinities in Forests supports more comprehensive research and practice by demonstrating mutual influences between masculine identities and environmental management, and by applying concepts of plural masculinities and intersectionality to varying manifestations of those processes. It challenges universalizing stereotypes about men by presenting unique empirical findings, and by showing how they vary across sociocultural, ethnoracial and ecological contexts. This book will support foresters, ecologists, natural resource managers and gender scholars to strengthen their attention to men and masculine identities,
thereby increasing the rigour of empirical research and enhancing the design and outcomes of policies and projects.
Open access e-book: http://www.crim.unam.mx/web/node/1576
edited by Giacomo D'alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, 45-59. London:
Routledge/Earthscan.
Growing and eating food are cultural practices that simultaneously make physical bodies, shape landscapes, and produce racial (together with class/ethno/spatial) knowledge and identity. This chapter strives to complement the large body of work on race and racism in Brazil and elsewhere with an exploration of how some people in the Brazilian state of Bahia experience and communicate racialized identities in the acts of producing and consuming food. Insights from other Latin American contexts shed new light on Brazilian material that challenges us to think about experiences and interactions of identity that are not reducible to categories of race, class or geography, yet are shaped in powerful ways by the socio-economic systems and ideologies that we identify as race, class and social space.
Esta obra reúne cuatro estudios recientes sobre las relaciones entre género y ambiente en el Ecuador, en los cuales el género es analizado como un sistema cultural que organiza e imprime significados a los cuerpos, ambientes, prácticas, creencias e instituciones. Las preguntas y perspectivas abiertas por los estudios publicados en este libro son el testimonio de una producción intelectual que contribuye a la construcción de una sociedad y un ambiente más sanos, más equitativos y más sostenibles en el Ecuador.
https://www.uasb.edu.ec/web/guest/contenido?conferencia-como-medir-nuestro-bienestar-sin-bloquear-las-alternativas-un-dialogo-norte-sur-entre-sumak-kawsay-y-decrecimiento-
Ciclo de Seminarios: Extractivismo, crisis y alternativas para el Ecuador ¿Cómo medir nuestro bienestar sin bloquear las alternativas? Un diálogo Norte-Sur entre Sumak Kawsay y Decrecimiento.
Video of plenary presentation in 5th World Degrowth Conference, Budapest, 30 August 2016.
Susan Paulson, Daniel O'Neill and Jennifer Hinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZRTsH81-k&index=4&list=PL9OIfSnjlF8R0pppEyLJHx6fuhR0ogvPx
MODERATOR: Dr. Carlos de la Torre
PANEL PARTICIPANTS:
Dr. Marianne Schmink Political Ecology
Dr. Carmen Diana Deere Gender and Development
Dr. Bette Loiselle Empowering communities to advance conservation
Dr. Glenn Galloway Teaching Sustainable Development
Dr. Susan Paulson Degrowth and other Post-development Pathways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUdzwQ3vuc
Sin embargo el metabolismo social global aumenta minuto a minuto, ya que los políticos y las empresas prometen y priorizan aún mayor crecimiento.
Frente a este paradoja, y en diálogo con otras vías de posdesarrollo,
el descrecimiento ha surgido como una red de movimientos hacia futuros más saludables.
Buscamos
1. Detener el crecimiento de la huella ecológica humana.
2. Alejarnos de las ideologías que glorifican el crecimiento ante otros objetivos.
3. Reorientar nuestras prácticas, valores, instituciones en torno al cuidado de los recursos humanos y naturales, y al bienestar equitativo.
Susan Paulson, University of Florida and Jason Hickel, London School of Economics.
Host Mathew Rose at Brave New Europe, 90 minute podcast from 9 December 2020
https://braveneweurope.com/susan-paulson-and-jason-hickel-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-degrowth-but-didnt-know-who-to-ask
Live online: www.youtube.com/user/UFLatinAmerica
Please join the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, together with Arturo Escobar and Winona LaDuke, to explore radical moves toward more resilient and equitable worlds advanced in the book The Case for Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, and Federico Demaria.
In the face of mounting environmental degradation and uneven sacrifices demanded by expanding economies, authors and commentators from three continents make a case for abandoning the struggle to sustain relentless growth.
In dialogue with Latin American and Indigenous perspectives and proposals, we consider degrowth, a network of movements striving to forge healthier futures by slowing down global use of material and energy, and by reorienting institutions, politics, and worldviews around care and equitable wellbeing.
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1258-giorgos-kallis-susan-paulson
This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful for intervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.
The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org
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While forestry is widely considered a masculine domain, a significant portion of the literature on gender and development focuses on the role of women, not men. This book addresses this gap and also highlights how there are significant, demonstrable differences in masculinities from forest to forest. The book develops a simple conceptual framework for considering masculinities, one which both acknowledges the stability or enduring quality of masculinities, but also the significant masculinity-related options available to individual men within any given culture. The author draws on her own experiences, building on her long-term experience working globally in the conservation and development worlds, also observing masculinities among such professionals. The core of the book examines masculinities, based on long-term ethnographic research in the rural Pacific Northwest of the US; Long Segar, East Kalimantan; and Sitiung, West Sumatra, both in Indonesia. The author concludes by pulling together the various strands of masculine identities and discussing the implications of these various versions of masculinity for forest management.
In this compelling book, leading experts Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria make the case for degrowth - living well with less, by living differently, prioritizing wellbeing, equity and sustainability. Drawing on emerging initiatives and enduring traditions around the world, they advance a radical degrowth vision and outline policies to shape work and care, income and investment that avoid exploitative and unsustainable practices. Degrowth, they argue, can be achieved through transformative strategies that allow societies to slow down by design, not disaster.
For centuries, inhabitants of the Chiloé islands in southern Chile carried out a constellation of activities that included farming, fishing, collecting shellfish and seaweed, forestry, carpentry, spinning and weaving. Until recently, local production was mostly oriented toward the sustenance and reproduction of local people and culture. Both scholarly and popular literature portrayed the archipelago as historically isolated from the rest of Chile and characterized it either as an undeveloped backwater or a living museum of distinct culture.
Striking socioeconomic and ecological changes are underway in Yucatán. Throughout most of the twentieth century, the majority of rural men worked in the cultivation or processing of henequen, a tropical agave plant whose fiber is used in making twine and other products. At the same time, many residents continued to grow food for family consumption; in the most common patterns, men cultivated corn, beans and other cultivars in a system called milpa, while women managed home gardens called solares. Many more men than women were employed in the formal labor market, where proportions of women workers were lower than in most other parts of Latin America.
Groups, edited by Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon,17-40. Rutgers University Press.
Groups, edited by Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, 1-16. Rutgers University Press.