dc.contributor.author | Nyborg, Ingrid | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-22T11:12:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-22T11:12:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 82-575-0510-2 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1503-2078 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0802-3220 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/301145 | |
dc.description.abstract | How people manage their resources in order to sustain a living is a topic of central importance
both to those working to improve the lives of the women and men of the mountain
communities of the Himalayas, and those concerned with conserving the biodiversity of
mountain habitats. This study explores the nature of women and men’s negotiations over
resources in a high altitude village in Baltistan, Northern Areas of Pakistan. It seeks to better
understand how women and men negotiate control and access to resources under changing
contexts, and what this implies for both their livelihood situation and the ways in which they
manage their resources. The focus on negotiations over resources in this study offers an
alternative perspective of people’s relationship to their environment to studies which, for
example, focus on the identification of fixed rules and rights over resources, or studies which
focus on community resource management exclusively in relation to government regulations
and policy, as if the community was an entity acting in unity. Fieldwork was conducted in
Basho Valley, Baltistan, stretching over a period of four years. Empirical data was collected
through participant observation and interviews. The findings show that a focus on
negotiations reveals the importance of the dynamics of local power relations, processes of
social differentiation, and issues of identity and morality in understanding women and men’s
relationships between each other and ultimately with their environment. The study suggests
that a better grasp of the dynamics of negotiations over resources will contribute to a better
understanding of how policy is both interpreted and influenced by these processes. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Agricultural University of Norway | nb_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Noragric PhD Dissertation;1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Doctor scientiarum thesis;2002:27 | |
dc.title | Yours today, mine tomorrow? : a study of women and men’s negotiations over resources in Baltistan, Pakistan | nb_NO |
dc.type | Doctoral thesis | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 250 | nb_NO |