Participate for Women's Sake? A Gender Analysis of a Swedish Collaborative Environmental Management Project

Sammanfattning

Collaborative approaches have become increasingly evident in policies governing environmental management. However, realizing these approaches has proven to be challenging. In this article we discuss why this is the case by using a gender-theoretical lens. By attending to prevailing norms of masculinity and femininity within Swedish environmental agencies, we gain understanding about what implications these norms have for working collaboratively. Our findings suggest that these organizations are gendered, leaving women administrators with lower status tasks, not in line with the traditional scientific expert roles valued in these organizations. The gender of administrators are thus both a cause and effect: The status of collaborative projects is low in the natural resource management organization, which leads to administrators having low status getting appointed these projects, which in turn reproduces the view of these projects as less important. Our findings contribute to the discussion on problems of realizing collaborative environmental policies.

Nyckelord

environmental communication; environmental sociology; social theory; Europe; gender; integrated coastal zone management; multimethod approaches; natural resources-environmental sociology; qualitative analysis; participatory approaches

Publicerad i

Society and Natural Resources
2015, volym: 28, nummer: 11, sidor: 1233-1248
Utgivare: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

SLU författare

• Westberg, Lotten

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Powell, Stina

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Uppsala universitet

Associerade SLU-program

Kust och hav

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG5 Jämställdhet
SDG13 Bekämpa klimatförändringarna

UKÄ forskningsämne

Genusstudier
Tvärvetenskapliga studier
Annan geovetenskap och miljövetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1014594

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/68842