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SUMMARY:Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance
 : A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality - Reva
 ti Pandya\, University of Wageningen
DTSTART:20210518T120000Z
DTEND:20210518T130000Z
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CONTACT:Rogelio Luque-Lora
DESCRIPTION:Research on environmentality has provided insights on subject 
 formation through the influence of conservation governance. Within this re
 search\, examination of subject formation from the perspective of local so
 cio-cultural dynamics has been gaining attention. However\, a gender persp
 ective in environmentality research remains marginal. In this presentation
 \, I discuss women’s engagement with ecotourism based on ethnographic re
 search as a part of my Phd at Corbett tiger reserve\, India. Ecotourism ha
 s been promoted as a win-win at Corbett tiger reserve\, and local dependen
 ce on tourism has been prolonged\, influencing change in land use and live
 lihoods. Within this context\, I focus on women and tourism and I draw fro
 m intersectional feminist political ecology to locate the influence of cas
 te and class on women’s involvement in tourism and implications on their
  lives. In relating this perspective to environmentality\, I find that wom
 en’s engagement with tourism is shaped by intersecting dynamics of caste
  and class\, and the motivation for engaging in tourism and its implicatio
 ns often go beyond monetary benefits that neoliberal environmentality tend
 s to emphasise. A focus on gender and related socio-cultural differences c
 an also reveal the complex ways that specific conservation measures exacer
 bate inequity\, and can be avenues to focus on for transformation and just
  conservation\n
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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