Yvonne A Braun
Biographic Data
| ID | 304555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne A Braun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne A |
| FAMILY NAME | Braun |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUN Y A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3711-0185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nuclear denial in Japan
Soil and human health
Environmental change, risk and vulnerability
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a transnational multi-dam infrastructural development project to sell water from Lesotho to South Africa. Based on field and secondary research in Lesotho, I demonstrate how infrastructural projects such as the LHWP shape a geography of risk and become a medium through which riskscapes are created or exacerbated in both South Africa and Lesotho. Project-induced changes interacted with and intensified …
Lesotho's white gold
The construction phases of large dam and infrastructural projects often extend over long periods of time, creating social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic consequences in the proximate communities and landscapes. The temporality of the phases of the project - from planning to construction to post-construction - reveal more layered and wide-ranging consequences from the social and environmental changes that result, sharpened by gr…
Networking for women’s rights
Women’s rights advocates, in southern Africa as elsewhere, have challenged gender inequality to advance the status of women in society and as a means to also address related, cumulative issues of disadvantage. As communication technologies and neoliberal globalization alter forms of communication, the potential for organizing, coalitions, and advocacy work across time and space, such as through transnational feminist networks (TFNs), has grown. U…
Up against the wall
Nearly one-quarter of Costa Rica's export earnings derive from an expanding tourist sector, one that is increasingly diversified in a mix of tourist niches. Ecotourism is the fastest growing niche and its promises are featured in a range of sites and practices, including the largest multinational hospitality and hotel corporations. These companies promote a vision of sustainability that relies on expanding consumption of 'environmental' amenities…
Plastic Bags, Pollution, and Identity
Research and policy interest in questions of environmental waste is growing, especially plastic bag pollution. Where trash disposal and recycling are not highly regulated, the proliferation of plastic bags has created dramatic social and environmental consequences. In this article, we draw on 30 interviews with women who sell goods in markets in Mali as an entry point into investigating this issue through the interrelated dimensions of identity, …
Space, ownership and inequality
Contrasting infrastructure and tourism development at one remote highlands location in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical processes that created opportunities for the state to expand ownership over rural, locally owned lands and resources for national and private sector growth. We highlight how the state transforms rural spaces through economic development and tourism initiatives and argue that this process forges new iterations …
Left High and Dry
A ‘curious feminist’ analysis, according to Enloe, starts in the lives of women and values all women's lives regardless of their status, identity, location or access to power. In this article I use this perspective to highlight the intersections of international development and patriarchy in the lives of three women of different generations and class status as they are affected by dislocations resulting from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (L…
The Reproduction of Inequality
Journal Article The Reproduction of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Social Organization of Work at Sites of Large-Scale Development Projects Get access Yvonne A. Braun Yvonne A. Braun University of Oregon Direct correspondence to: Yvonne A. Braun, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies, 1298 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1298. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
From Developmentalism to the HIV/Aids Crisis
Contrasting the socio-political contexts of large-scale development and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical conjunctures that expanded opportunities for the mobilization of women's rights as human rights. Local women's rights organizations, such as Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), found greater support and resonance for women's rights claims amid the socio-political context of the AIDS crisis, in mar…
Gender, large-scale development, and food insecurity in Lesotho
This article investigates the effects of development policy on gender and food security. It analyses how one policy instituted by a large-scale multi-dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), affected women's food security in the rural highlands of Lesotho, southern Africa. This was a mitigation policy, aiming to ensure that the LHWP did not negatively impact on the people living in the area where the dams were construc…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia
Women generally initiate, lead, and constitute the rank and file of environmental justice activism. However, there is little research on why there are comparatively so few men involved in these movements. Using the environmental justice movement in the Central Appalachian coalfields as a case study, we examine the ways that environmental justice activism is gendered, with a focus on how women's and men's identities both shape and constrain their …
Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia
Women generally initiate, lead, and constitute the rank and file of environmental justice activism. However, there is little research on why there are comparatively so few men involved in these movements. Using the environmental justice movement in the Central Appalachian coalfields as a case study, we examine the ways that environmental justice activism is gendered, with a focus on how women's and men's identities both shape and constrain their …
From Developmentalism to the HIV/Aids Crisis
Contrasting the socio-political contexts of large-scale development and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical conjunctures that expanded opportunities for the mobilization of women's rights as human rights. Local women's rights organizations, such as Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), found greater support and resonance for women's rights claims amid the socio-political context of the AIDS crisis, in mar…
The Reproduction of Inequality
Journal Article The Reproduction of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Social Organization of Work at Sites of Large-Scale Development Projects Get access Yvonne A. Braun Yvonne A. Braun University of Oregon Direct correspondence to: Yvonne A. Braun, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies, 1298 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1298. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Plastic Bags, Pollution, and Identity
Research and policy interest in questions of environmental waste is growing, especially plastic bag pollution. Where trash disposal and recycling are not highly regulated, the proliferation of plastic bags has created dramatic social and environmental consequences. In this article, we draw on 30 interviews with women who sell goods in markets in Mali as an entry point into investigating this issue through the interrelated dimensions of identity, …
Left High and Dry
A ‘curious feminist’ analysis, according to Enloe, starts in the lives of women and values all women's lives regardless of their status, identity, location or access to power. In this article I use this perspective to highlight the intersections of international development and patriarchy in the lives of three women of different generations and class status as they are affected by dislocations resulting from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (L…
Gender, large-scale development, and food insecurity in Lesotho
This article investigates the effects of development policy on gender and food security. It analyses how one policy instituted by a large-scale multi-dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), affected women's food security in the rural highlands of Lesotho, southern Africa. This was a mitigation policy, aiming to ensure that the LHWP did not negatively impact on the people living in the area where the dams were construc…
Environmental change, risk and vulnerability
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a transnational multi-dam infrastructural development project to sell water from Lesotho to South Africa. Based on field and secondary research in Lesotho, I demonstrate how infrastructural projects such as the LHWP shape a geography of risk and become a medium through which riskscapes are created or exacerbated in both South Africa and Lesotho. Project-induced changes interacted with and intensified …
Lesotho's white gold
The construction phases of large dam and infrastructural projects often extend over long periods of time, creating social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic consequences in the proximate communities and landscapes. The temporality of the phases of the project - from planning to construction to post-construction - reveal more layered and wide-ranging consequences from the social and environmental changes that result, sharpened by gr…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Space, ownership and inequality
Contrasting infrastructure and tourism development at one remote highlands location in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical processes that created opportunities for the state to expand ownership over rural, locally owned lands and resources for national and private sector growth. We highlight how the state transforms rural spaces through economic development and tourism initiatives and argue that this process forges new iterations …
Soil and human health
From Developmentalism to the HIV/Aids Crisis
Contrasting the socio-political contexts of large-scale development and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical conjunctures that expanded opportunities for the mobilization of women's rights as human rights. Local women's rights organizations, such as Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), found greater support and resonance for women's rights claims amid the socio-political context of the AIDS crisis, in mar…
Gender, large-scale development, and food insecurity in Lesotho
This article investigates the effects of development policy on gender and food security. It analyses how one policy instituted by a large-scale multi-dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), affected women's food security in the rural highlands of Lesotho, southern Africa. This was a mitigation policy, aiming to ensure that the LHWP did not negatively impact on the people living in the area where the dams were construc…
Gender, development, and sex work in Lesotho
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), impacts gender relations through its physical presence in the highlands of Lesotho, Southern Africa. Design/methodology/approach Field research including interviews with men and wome…
Coal, Identity, and the Gendering of Environmental Justice Activism in Central Appalachia
Women generally initiate, lead, and constitute the rank and file of environmental justice activism. However, there is little research on why there are comparatively so few men involved in these movements. Using the environmental justice movement in the Central Appalachian coalfields as a case study, we examine the ways that environmental justice activism is gendered, with a focus on how women's and men's identities both shape and constrain their …
Left High and Dry
A ‘curious feminist’ analysis, according to Enloe, starts in the lives of women and values all women's lives regardless of their status, identity, location or access to power. In this article I use this perspective to highlight the intersections of international development and patriarchy in the lives of three women of different generations and class status as they are affected by dislocations resulting from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (L…
The Reproduction of Inequality
Journal Article The Reproduction of Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Social Organization of Work at Sites of Large-Scale Development Projects Get access Yvonne A. Braun Yvonne A. Braun University of Oregon Direct correspondence to: Yvonne A. Braun, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies, 1298 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1298. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Space, ownership and inequality
Contrasting infrastructure and tourism development at one remote highlands location in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical processes that created opportunities for the state to expand ownership over rural, locally owned lands and resources for national and private sector growth. We highlight how the state transforms rural spaces through economic development and tourism initiatives and argue that this process forges new iterations …
Up against the wall
Nearly one-quarter of Costa Rica's export earnings derive from an expanding tourist sector, one that is increasingly diversified in a mix of tourist niches. Ecotourism is the fastest growing niche and its promises are featured in a range of sites and practices, including the largest multinational hospitality and hotel corporations. These companies promote a vision of sustainability that relies on expanding consumption of 'environmental' amenities…
Plastic Bags, Pollution, and Identity
Research and policy interest in questions of environmental waste is growing, especially plastic bag pollution. Where trash disposal and recycling are not highly regulated, the proliferation of plastic bags has created dramatic social and environmental consequences. In this article, we draw on 30 interviews with women who sell goods in markets in Mali as an entry point into investigating this issue through the interrelated dimensions of identity, …
Networking for women’s rights
Women’s rights advocates, in southern Africa as elsewhere, have challenged gender inequality to advance the status of women in society and as a means to also address related, cumulative issues of disadvantage. As communication technologies and neoliberal globalization alter forms of communication, the potential for organizing, coalitions, and advocacy work across time and space, such as through transnational feminist networks (TFNs), has grown. U…
Environmental change, risk and vulnerability
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a transnational multi-dam infrastructural development project to sell water from Lesotho to South Africa. Based on field and secondary research in Lesotho, I demonstrate how infrastructural projects such as the LHWP shape a geography of risk and become a medium through which riskscapes are created or exacerbated in both South Africa and Lesotho. Project-induced changes interacted with and intensified …
Lesotho's white gold
The construction phases of large dam and infrastructural projects often extend over long periods of time, creating social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic consequences in the proximate communities and landscapes. The temporality of the phases of the project - from planning to construction to post-construction - reveal more layered and wide-ranging consequences from the social and environmental changes that result, sharpened by gr…
Soil and human health
Nuclear denial in Japan
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