Journal article
The Gender of Fuelwood: Headloads and Truckloads in India
Journal of South Asian development, Vol.17(2), pp.230-259
03/29/2022
DOI: 10.1177/09731741221078170
Abstract
Cookstove improvement projects in India have emerged from the longstanding concerns about the nexus of cooking, fuelwood, gender and the environment. Such work, both academic and interventionist, focuses on rural women hauling headloads of firewood from the forests to their kitchens, where they burn it for daily cooking in a mud cookstove [chulha]. We argue that this focus on village women's cooking is too narrow if we are to understand and address problems caused by burning fuelwood in India, as cookstove campaigns attend to villages and not cities, domestic cooking and not commercial uses, and women and not men. Ethnographic research in Rajasthan and Odisha shows why we must expand our understanding of fuelwood use beyond villages, rural kitchens and women, and how cookstove interventions, often expressed as concern for women, require gender analysis.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Gender of Fuelwood: Headloads and Truckloads in India
- Creators
- Meena Khandelwal - University of IowaMatthew E. Hill - Univ Iowa, Dept Anthropol, 114 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAMargaret Beck - University of IowaSanoop Valappanandi - Foundation for Ecological SecurityHrushikesh Mahapatra - Foundation for Ecological Security
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of South Asian development, Vol.17(2), pp.230-259
- DOI
- 10.1177/09731741221078170
- ISSN
- 0973-1741
- eISSN
- 0973-1733
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD
- Number of pages
- 30
- Grant note
- FulbrightHays Group Project Award from the US Department of Education, from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (in Iowa City) Arts and Humanities Initiative at the University of Iowa
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/29/2022
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984269243902771
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