PhD Course, Gender, Development and Environment Governance at Swedish University of Agricultural Science
Starting Date :: September 8, 2014

For details:
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/10669/95/nb-gender-course-2014-description_doc

PhD course - Gender, Development and Environmental Governance

Time September 8 – October 10, 2014, 100%, daytime
Application and Further Information
Deadline for application: August 27, 2014
Seema Arora-Jonsson, [email protected]
Department of Urban and Rural Development
Box 7071, Ullsväg 28, Uppsala

Prerequisites
Enrolled in a PhD or should have credits at master level

Objective
What role do gender relations play in environmental governance and the attainment of sustainable development? This multidisciplinary course provides students, researchers and others working in these fields with gender sensitive tools and skills necessary to be able to understand issues of gender and power in their area of work and to carry out successful research and programme development in natural resource management, agriculture and rural development. The course is open to academics and practitioners working in these fields. The course will 1. Introduce you to gender issues in environmental governance, agriculture and development in a global perspective and explore interconnections between gender, environmental governance and development in multiple contexts and spaces. 2. Provide you with methods and tools for power and gender analysis in the context of increasingly ‘global’ environmental governance and 3. Allow you to focus on a project in course discussions that is directly related to your research and area of work.

Content
Introduction to theories and concepts related to:
1. Studies of Gender, Nature and Science
2. Feminist approaches to the environment: eco-feminism, feminist environmentalism, political ecology, women and development etc.
3. Issues of land, gender, identity, class and ethnicity
4. Neoliberal environments, gender and globalization
5. Environmental policy-making and gender.
6. Research methods in gender sensitive research, development and resource management

Examination
1. Participation in work groups and seminars during the course. Parts of the course will be run as seminars and both the instructor and students will share responsibility for leading the discussions of the readings.
2. A hand in individual paper and presentation using the course concepts in your own area of work

Literature
Information about required and suggested reading will be provided a month before the start of the course.

Additional Information
Teacher and course-coordinator: Seema Arora-Jonsson.
Lecures also by
Gunilla Bjerén (Professor, Stockholm University) on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Gender Research
Lyla Mehta (Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex/Visiting Professor, Noragric, Norweigian University of Life Sciences) on Gender and Sustainability.

Structure of the course

Five weeks starting on September 8, 2014. The course is designed so that you will have individual reading days from September 8 to September 19. There will be one week of intensive classes in Uppsala between September 22 - 26. During the seminars you are expected to relate to the literature in class discussions, make groups presentations and lead discussions. Between September 28 – October 10, 2014 there is individual study or group work, i.e. you are free to develop a joint paper on one of the themes taken up in the class or alternatively write a paper on your own and send it in latest by October 12.

o Half to one page description of your work: An important part of the course is for you to be able to develop your thinking in your area of study and to be able to discuss that with the lecturers. In order to facilitate that, you need to send in a description of your research/work and a few lines on what you would like to get from the course. Instructions on what you need to do will be sent out to you once you have applied. Your descriptions will be sent out to the other lecturers as well so that they are familiar with your work when we meet.

o Readings: There will be some obligatory readings while others are optional. According to your preferences I would like you to be well versed in certain readings that you can be responsible for and be part of leading the discussions for that particular lecture. Once you have been sent the readings, you will be assigned responsibility for the readings relevant for your work after discussing it with you.