Unintended Developments: Gender, Environment, and Collective Governance in a Mexican Ejido

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 784-800

  Hausermann, Heidi E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

environment; gender; governance; Mexico; neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER RELATIONS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS; PRIVATIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

EID: 84903436548     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.910075     Document Type: Article

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