Women (re)construct the plot: the regen(d)eration of urban food growing   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Susan Buckingham 《Area》2005,37(2):171-179

The British allotment is in the process of transformation. From a traditional provision made to male active and retired workers, it is becoming, by degrees, embourgeoised and more socially diverse, with many more women entering allotment gardening. At the same time, growing community gardening activity is giving women in low income families the opportunity to provide fresh, and culturally relevant, food for their families. This paper explores the meaning of this gradual gender transformation of urban food-growing spaces with regard to its social, aesthetic and environmental impact and looks at the implications of this both on and off the plot.  相似文献   

Gender and urban poverty: Single mothers in Amsterdam     

Joos Droogleever Fortuijn  Wim Ostendorf 《GeoJournal》2004,61(3):239-246

Urban poverty in Western countries is usually defined in terms of social exclusion and integration. Welfare states can be characterized according to three modes of integration, namely market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity. This paper compares the mechanisms of the social integration of unemployed single mothers with those of unemployed men. In two deprived neighbourhoods in Amsterdam, unemployed single mothers and unemployed native-born men were interviewed about their coping strategies with respect to the labour market, social security institutions and social networks. Although the single mothers have serious financial problems, they are better integrated into society at large than the unemployed men are. The single mothers are strongly oriented towards the labour market, successful in getting support from the social security institutions, have strong and supportive social networks, and are integrated into their neighbourhoods. In the conclusion we challenge the idea of vulnerable single mothers and demonstrate the relatively successful integration of this category of women. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Gender Issues in the Use of Interviewing as a Research Method*     

Andrew Herod 《The Professional geographer》1993,45(3):305-317

The open-ended interview is gaining widespread acceptance within human geography as a research method. Frequently, such interviews can provide researchers with a richer account of events than can larger scale, standardized statistical approaches. However, researchers using interviews as part of their information gathering practices need to be aware of the social relations within which the interviews are conducted. In this paper I argue that gender relations are an important dynamic shaping the interview process which can significantly influence the sorts of data obtained using this particular research methodology.  相似文献   

Coloring the Field: Gender, “Race,” and the Politics of Fieldwork     

Audrey Kobayashi 《The Professional geographer》1994,46(1):73-80

My experiences combining research and activism within the Japanese-Canadian community reflect a growing concern among feminist and anti-racist scholars with the politics of work among people marginalized by racism and sexism. This concern arises within a context where “other voices” are being heard, but the legitimacy of one individual or group to represent another is being challenged. Such challenges require that essentialism and naturalism be addressed politically and theoretically, a difficult irony given the need to utilize essentialist categories to address the oppressive conditions under which they emerged. To do so, a critical theory of political construction is required.  相似文献   

基于角色和任务的层次对象访问控制模型   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

何超英  蒋捷  陈军  韩刚 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》2006,31(8):716-719

以GIS协同工作应用为背景，探讨了该背景下的访问控制问题，提出了一种基于角色和任务的层次对象访问控制模型，定义了受控对象层次关系和操作类型层次关系，以及基于这两种关系的权限定义规则。实验证明，该模型具有较强的灵活性和适用性，在一定程度上降低了权限定义的复杂度。  相似文献   

'Black skins–white masks': Postcolonial reflections on 'race', gender and second generation return migration to the Caribbean     

Joan Phillips  Robert B. Potter 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2006,27(3):309-325

This paper illustrates the opportunities afforded by the adoption of postcolonial discourse in development geography, drawing specifically on issues of transnationalism, hybridity and inbetweeness. The utility of such notions and associated approaches is illustrated by the authors' current research on the migration of young, second generation and foreign-born 'Bajan-Brits' to the small Caribbean island nation of Barbados, the homeland of their parents. Focussing on issues of 'race' and gender, the paper examines the experiences of return migration among this cohort from an interpretative perspective framed within postcolonial discourse. It argues that notwithstanding the considerable sociocultural problems of adjustment encountered, these Bajan-Brit 'returnees' may be seen as occupying positions of relative economic privilege. Theirs is a liminal space derived by virtue of having been born and/or raised in the UK and being of the black 'race'. Accordingly, they are demonstrated to be both advantaged and disadvantaged; both transnational and national; and black but, in some senses, symbolically white.  相似文献   

Gendered production spaces and crop varietal selection: Case study in Yucatán, Mexico     

Diana Gabriela Lope-Alzina 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2007,28(1):21-38

This paper examines the influence of gender relations and gendered domains on maize and squash varietal selection in a village in Yucatán State, southeast Mexico. Results of the exploratory study indicate that the traditional production spaces of homegardens and agricultural fields are complementary gendered domains of varietal maintenance for both crops although with different cropping patterns, while a 'new' space, of land allocated to some families for future residential construction ( terreno ) is in the meantime a jointly worked agricultural domain. Women's labour, knowledge and preferences predominate in post-harvest processes. Fieldwork revealed that neither men nor women are independent decision-makers, planning what to grow, where and in what amounts, but that in most aspects of farming the interests of both are accommodated within the household's production spaces.  相似文献   

From the kitchen and the field: Gender and maize diversity in the Bajío region of Mexico     

Kimberlee J. Chambers  Janet Henshall Momsen 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2007,28(1):39-56

The conservation of crop genetic diversity in farmers' fields is important for future food security. Recent research on women and biodiversity has emphasized the importance of women's knowledge in plant domestication and biodiversity conservation. This paper presents a case study of the differences in women's and men's knowledge of maize landraces in four different environments in the Bajío region of Mexico. We argue that research on crop diversity and conservation needs to include both men and women farmers' knowledge. Gendered knowledge results from men and women in a household being responsible for different tasks and sometimes for farming separate plots. In addition, as economic pressures increasingly force men to work away from their communities for extended periods, women become the primary agricultural decision-makers.  相似文献   

Gender analysis of fear and mobility in the context of ethnic conflict in Kayah State,Myanmar          下载免费PDF全文

Agatha Ma  Kyoko Kusakabe 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2015,36(3):342-356

Kayah State has faced prolonged conflict for the past six decades. The conflict has affected all the people of Kayah, though the nature and extent of the impact varies by age, gender and class. Caught between the ethnic armed groups and military and brutalized by both, the people of Kayah have struggled to survive. The conflict has further restricted the mobility of an already isolated people. This lack of mobility has affected every aspect of their lives including livelihood, access to education and markets, and religious and social networks. Women's mobility is more restricted than that of men, and the different levels of mobility have in turn led to different strategies to survive the conflict. While men can leave the area for work and education, women cannot. Staying in the conflict zone increases both their vulnerability and isolation. The increased isolation affects their position within the family and community, as they have less confidence, voice and decision‐making power. Women use silence and submissiveness to escape from both the military and the ethnic armed groups. However, such strategies, in the long term, continue to perpetuate women's subordinate position in society. They also reinforce women's powerlessness and maintain the current power structures and hierarchies.  相似文献   

四明山脉溪流区水产经济动物棘胸蛙(Paa spinosa)同生群两性亲体间的形质差异   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

杨程  富裕  朱卫东  申屠基康  斯烈钢  王志铮 《海洋与湖沼》2015,46(4):853-861

随机选取养殖于四明山脉溪流区的棘胸蛙3年龄同生群人工养成群体中的雌、雄亲体各84只作为研究材料,采用聚类分析、主成分分析和判别分析方法研究了棘胸蛙同生群两性亲体间的形质差异。结果表明:(1)在所涉20项生物学测定指标和25项形质评价指标中,两性亲体间具显著差异的分别为17项和16项,两者基于形质评价指标均值计算所得的欧氏距离为0.305(P0.01);(2)经主成分分析,提取到的5个特征值均大于1的主成分,累计贡献率达80.841%,其中第一主成分可归为与脏器质量配置相关的能量代谢因子,第二主成分可归为以头宽和吻长为代表的与口腔空间大小有关的食物吞咽因子,后三个主成分可归为以足肢比和眼间距为代表的与寻食、跳跃和抱食能力相关的捕食功能因子;(3)采用逐步判别法,以判别贡献率较大的L1(前足长/前肢长)、L5(吻长/肩宽)、L7(眼间距/头宽)、W2(胃质量/心质量)、W4(肺质量/心质量)、W6(性腺质量/心质量)为自变量,所建Fisher分类函数方程组可较清晰地区分棘胸蛙两性亲体,雌、雄亲体判别准确率P1、P2分别为84.52%、83.53%和83.33%、84.34%,综合判别率为83.93%。  相似文献