Resettlement and Risk: Women's Community Work in Lesotho
Gender Realities: Local and Global
ISBN: 978-0-76231-214-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-345-7
Publication date: 4 June 2005
Abstract
This paper explores some gendered impacts of resettlement in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Lesotho, Southern Africa, I use a feminist political ecology framework to analyze the ways host and settler communities negotiate development-induced resettlement and how resettlement conditions (re)produce gendered social interests in the context of the LHWP. While material losses are typically compensated during resettlement, the non-material, psycho-social aspects of loss do not get compensated. After resettlement, however, it is the unpaid, uncompensated community work of women that offers opportunities for adjustment into the new communities.
Citation
Braun, Y.A. (2005), "Resettlement and Risk: Women's Community Work in Lesotho", Texler Segal, M. and Demos, V. (Ed.) Gender Realities: Local and Global (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 29-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2126(05)09002-8
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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