Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2627. Author's first name misspelled on cover as "Jaquline." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 241-251).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Edinburgh, 2002. / Title from title page of source document (last viewed on November 9, 2005). Bibliography: p. 57-61.

Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the ways in which the category "woman" is constructed in climate change discourse by utilizing data from the micro-blogging site Twitter.com in the 60 days surrounding the 17th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP17) in 2011. The findings of this research are that women are represented through imageries of violence and victimization, while simultaneously constructed as mythical heroines/warriors who will defend and save humanity from this global threat. Using transnational and postcolonial feminist theory, I critique these representations and examine the function and consequences of the narrow representations of women in climate change discourse. Based on the findings, this thesis suggests that a shift towards the discursive feminization of climate change could occur in the future, wherein the ways in which climate change is viewed and responded to may move from the current frame of governability, commodification, and securitization, to a frame that sees climate change as a "women's issue." Feminist intervention into climate change discourse is greatly lacking, and this thesis argues that feminist engagement with the problem of climate change is necessary for gender justice in our climate-altered world. / Graduation date: 2012

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy , April 2017 / This study examines the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of female elderly headed households in Gutsa village, Murape Ward, in Goromonzi District of Mashonaland East province in Zimbabwe. It is based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork that I undertook for close to nineteen months in Gutsa village. The key questions that I sought to answer in this thesis were: How is local knowledge about weather and climate change constructed? What is the nature of contestations surrounding this knowledge, and in particular surrounding the attribution of climate change to particular causes or events? How are livelihoods organized in response to the impact of climate change? I examined elderly women heads of households' perceptions and understandings of weather and climate change, issues of conflict and consensus regarding attribution and causality of weather and climate, the concepts that are used to refer to climate change, elderly women’s struggles to make sense of, and respond to climate change and to organize livelihood activities in response to the ongoing impact of climate change. In order to answer my research questions I adopted the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal, participant observation, archival research, life-history interviews, narrative research and in-depth interviews as data gathering approaches. I focused on the situated experiences of ten elderly women heads of households in Gutsa village existing in a wider community. In doing so this thesis explored these women’s complex understandings and interpretations of weather and climate dynamics as well as the relationship between climate change and their multiple and competing responsibilities. The thesis also analyses the implications of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in the district, peri-urban development, resource commoditization and commercialization, rapidly shifting markets, changing property relations, social networks, livelihood opportunities, gender relations, changing household structure, the politics of local authority and governance and the dynamics of ecosystems and interspecies interaction. The thesis argues that there is a central vernacular climatological theory that is widely shared among the elderly as well as among other situated individuals in the village and the wider community. / MT2018

围龙屋是客家人聚族而居的传统建筑，集中分布于广东东北部。它蕴含一套独特的空间构造和象征体系，体现了客家人的社会结构和性别观念。空间作为一项技术，在物质领域和精神领域上划分了两性的界限，并维护着性别关系结构。集体化时期国家对围龙屋进行了全面性改造，女性抓住机会获取村落公共空间的话语权，并在今天成为宗教活动的主导。改革开放之后，经济改革促使当地人搬出围龙屋住进新式楼房，家庭关系也随之改变。 / 本文以梅州一座围龙屋为研究对象，以客家妇女的日常生活实践为核心主题，通过分析围龙屋聚落的历史脉络、空间构造及其社会意义的转变，探讨空间生产过程中女性个体、国家力量和传统文化观念之间的互动与角力，从而理解中国建国后的社会、政治、经济变迁。国家通过改造围龙屋来达成管制目的，客家女性在国家话语下发挥能动性获取更多的生存空间，同时也受到传统文化观念的约束。今天，国家力量借助市场经济以非正式的方式渗透农村，彻底改变了家庭权力结构，并使传统文化滋生出新的表现形式。 / The weilong houses serve as the dwelling places for the Hakka people in Northeast Guangdong. Each weilong house contains elaborate spatial arrangements and a symbolic system that embodies the social order and gender relations of the Hakka. Space draws the boundaries between men and women in both the material and spiritual spheres, maintaining the gender structure of the Hakka society. During the collectivization period when the state reorganized the weilong house, women seized the opportunity to gain power for the control of village public space, and later they became religious leaders, even to the present. The economic reforms since 1978 have induced the villagers to leave the weilong house and move into new double-storey buildings, changing the family relations in the household. / This research is a study of a weilong house in Meizhou, with focus on the daily practices of Hakka women. Taking into account of the history of the weilong house, its spatial structure and the changes in its social meanings, I seek to explore the production and reproduction of space in relation to women, tradition and the state, leading to a deeper understanding of the social-economic and political changes since 1949. The state achieved its rule through the re-arrangement of space, and the Hakka women use their agency to gain more living space under the state discourse, despite being constrained by traditional culture. Today, through market forces, state power has permeated all aspects of village life, transforming the power structure of the family thoroughly and enabling traditional culture to express in new ways. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 駱吉婷. / "2012年8月". / "2012 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-136). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Luo Jiting. / Abstract --- p.i / 摘要 --- p.ii / 致谢 --- p.iii / 目录 --- p.v / 图、表及照片 --- p.vii / Chapter 第一章 --- 导论 --- p.1 / Chapter 一、 --- 引论 --- p.1 / Chapter 二、 --- 理论框架 --- p.6 / Chapter 1. --- 空间与权力 --- p.7 / Chapter 2. --- 社会空间的三维辩证法 --- p.9 / Chapter 三、 --- 文献综述 --- p.10 / Chapter 1. --- 空间与性别 --- p.10 / Chapter 2. --- 客家妇女研究 --- p.14 / Chapter 3. --- 客家居住建筑研究 --- p.18 / Chapter 四、 --- 研究方法 --- p.19 / Chapter 五、 --- 章节安排 --- p.24 / Chapter 第二章 --- 传统时期围龙屋的空间结构与性别关系 --- p.25 / Chapter 一、 --- 大饶屋的社会历史背景与现状 --- p.25 / Chapter 二、 --- 围龙屋的组成部分 --- p.30 / Chapter 1. --- 围龙屋的核心--堂屋 --- p.33 / Chapter 2. --- 围龙屋的住房--横屋和围龙 --- p.35 / Chapter 3. --- 围龙屋的衍生部分--化胎、 水塘、 风水林 --- p.36 / Chapter 4. --- 围龙屋的连接部分--禾坪、 天街、 横厅 --- p.39 / Chapter 5. --- 围龙屋的空间原则 --- p.41 / Chapter 三、 --- 围龙屋的空间划分与性别界限 --- p.43 / Chapter 1. --- p.44 / Chapter 2. --- 象征区分 --- p.48 / Chapter 3. --- 权力的流动 --- p.51 / Chapter 四、 --- 女性的恐惧 --- p.53 / Chapter 五、 --- 小结 --- p.57 / Chapter 第三章 --- 围龙屋的改造与性别关系的重构 --- p.59 / Chapter 一丶 --- 国家对围龙屋的重整 --- p.60 / Chapter 1. --- 重划居住格局 --- p.60 / Chapter 2. --- 再定义空间功能 --- p.61 / Chapter 3. --- 切分劳动空间与家庭空间 --- p.66 / Chapter 二、 --- 客家妇女与国家的互动 --- p.68 / Chapter 1. --- 性别分工与妇女掌权 --- p.68 / Chapter 2. --- 沉重的工作负担 --- p.71 / Chapter 三、 --- 国家力量与传统文化的角力 --- p.73 / Chapter 1. --- 分离 --- p.73 / Chapter 2. --- 碰撞 --- p.74 / Chapter 四、 --- 改革开放后的围龙屋 --- p.75 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭生产 --- p.75 / Chapter 2. --- 邻里关系 --- p.76 / Chapter 五、 --- 小结 --- p.78 / Chapter 第四章 --- 女性与宗教空间 --- p.80 / Chapter 一、 --- 围龙屋的崇拜 --- p.81 / Chapter 1. --- 个体家庭崇拜 --- p.81 / Chapter 2. --- 围龙屋的集体崇拜 --- p.84 / Chapter 二、 --- 宗教组织及其运作 --- p.90 / Chapter 三、 --- 神庙的商业化与围龙屋的崇拜 --- p.93 / Chapter 四、 --- 小结 --- p.97 / Chapter 第五章 --- 现代居住格局与家庭权力关系的变迁 --- p.100 / Chapter 一、 --- 新居的建立 --- p.101 / Chapter 1. --- 分地 --- p.101 / Chapter 2. --- 年轻女性的推动 --- p.103 / Chapter 二、 --- 新的居住格局 --- p.105 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭内部格局 --- p.105 / Chapter 2. --- 村落公共空间 --- p.108 / Chapter 三、 --- 家庭权力关系 --- p.109 / Chapter 1. --- 夫妻 --- p.109 / Chapter 2. --- 婆媳 --- p.111 / Chapter 3. --- 外嫁的女儿 --- p.113 / Chapter 4. --- 长幼 --- p.114 / Chapter 四、 --- 小结 --- p.117 / Chapter 第六章 --- 结语 --- p.120 / p.128

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geography. 24 March 2017 / There is substantial evidence to show that the climate has been changing on various scales across the world. The change in climate conditions has had negative impacts for developing countries, particularly poorer communities who use climate-sensitive resources such as urban agriculture which is prone to extreme weather. It is evident that urban agriculture has become a major source of income for a lot of people and its contribution to household food security is significant and in many instances it is increasing. The MSc study investigated the implications of climate variability and change on food production focusing on urban agriculture. It was also of key interest to explore the different adaptive approaches that FHH employ in reducing the impacts thereof. The approach informing the study combined two approaches; firstly, the `bottom-up' participatory research undertaken in three communities namely Inanda, Ntuzuma and Kwamashu; secondly, a rapid appraisal of policies, programs and institutions. The results were then triangulated using a micro-action planning workshop and a consultation process. A total of 84 small scale farmers who are actively involved in subsistence farming participated in the research study. From the empirical findings it is evident that climate change has manifested itself in floods and droughts and has been ranked extremely prevalent and frequent by 75% and 86% of the overall responses from the three study sites. The combination of these two extreme events has had negative impacts on food production and food accessibility. However, it has been found that FHH use asset based adaptation to modify and adjust their livelihoods as a way of coping with established threats. The eThekwini municipality has developed the Municipal Climate Change Protection Programme (eTMCCPP) with the purpose to mainstream climate change adaptation in the general city planning and development framework as well as to harmonize local urban responses to climate variability. However, only 48% of the participants have received any form of assistance and support from the Municipality. More needs to be done to help build capacity at household level and improve livelihoods of the local community particularly of Female headed households. / MT 2017

Ecofeminism perceives an interconnection between the domination of women and poor people, and the domination of nature. This domination is founded on modern, Western, patriarchal, dualised structures, which subordinate all considered as "the other" compared to the superior masculine archetype. Hence, all feminine is seen as inferior and may therefore be exploited. This is presently manifested in the neo-liberal economic development ideal. Its global penetration generates huge economic profits, which are reaped by Northern and Southern elites, while its devastating crises of poverty, violence, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses makes life increasingly unmanageable for Southern women, poor people and nature. Feminism and ecology have therefore come together aiming at liberating women, poor people and nature. They want to change the dualised, reductionist perception of reality into a holistic cosmology. Ecofeminism consequently aims to integrate the concerns of women, poor people and nature into development. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

Ecofeminism perceives an interconnection between the domination of women and poor people, and the domination of nature. This domination is founded on modern, Western, patriarchal, dualised structures, which subordinate all considered as "the other" compared to the superior masculine archetype. Hence, all feminine is seen as inferior and may therefore be exploited. This is presently manifested in the neo-liberal economic development ideal. Its global penetration generates huge economic profits, which are reaped by Northern and Southern elites, while its devastating crises of poverty, violence, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses makes life increasingly unmanageable for Southern women, poor people and nature. Feminism and ecology have therefore come together aiming at liberating women, poor people and nature. They want to change the dualised, reductionist perception of reality into a holistic cosmology. Ecofeminism consequently aims to integrate the concerns of women, poor people and nature into development. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)