Unwrapping the Memory Box
Gendered Livelihoods in a Forest Community in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
In: Asian Journal of Social ScienceBegum Rokeya University, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Rangpur, Bangladesh
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Abstract
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding. Considering the impacts of cyclones Aila and Sidr, this autoethnographic study closely examines the long-established perceptions of women and men about the resources of the Sundarbans. While doing so, this study uses feminist political ecology as a theoretical framework. This study examines how these two cyclones transformed lives and gendered livelihoods of the villagers of Shora in the Sundarbans forest.
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Unwrapping the Memory Box
Gendered Livelihoods in a Forest Community in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
In: Asian Journal of Social ScienceBegum Rokeya University, Department of Gender and Development Studies, Rangpur, Bangladesh
Search for other papers by Sajal Roy in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Search for other papers by Habib Zafarullah in
Current site
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Abstract
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding. Considering the impacts of cyclones Aila and Sidr, this autoethnographic study closely examines the long-established perceptions of women and men about the resources of the Sundarbans. While doing so, this study uses feminist political ecology as a theoretical framework. This study examines how these two cyclones transformed lives and gendered livelihoods of the villagers of Shora in the Sundarbans forest.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 737 | 110 | 13 |
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