Social Network Analysis of Peasant Agriculture: Cooperative Labor as Gendered Relational Networks

Professional Geographer

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 447-463

  Abizaid, Christian ^a   Coomes, Oliver T ^b   Takasaki, Yoshito ^c   Brisson, Stéphanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

cooperative labor; dyadic regression analysis; gender relations; peasant agriculture; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE; AGRICULTURAL LABOR; GENDER RELATIONS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AMAZONIA; PERU;

EID: 84931566261     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1006562     Document Type: Article

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