Gender, Resource Management, and Social Unrest: An Ethnographic Case Study
Publisher: The Oriental Anthropologist
Author(s): Anindita Nayak
Date: 2019
Topics: Economic Recovery, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: India
This paper aims at locating the relationship between gender and resource management, especially the indigenous knowledge system of women for natural resource management of the Kondh tribe of Nayagarh district, Odisha. The Kondh live within the forest and they are highly dependent on forest for maintaining their livelihood. Specifically, women, who take family and community responsibilities, usually go through a continuous struggle from inside the family, as well as from the outside. Further, this study explains the case of the community’s role in maintaining the forest through social unrest. This work further intends to study how government policies, particularly forest policy, affect indigenous Kondh, when the destruction of natural resources has been increasing, and how women raise voices to sustain their environment.