The Gender of Fuelwood

Headloads and Truckloads in India

Bibliographic Data

ID12322018
AuthorsM Khandelwal (0000-0002-4552-8592, University of Iowa, corresponding author), Matthew E Hill (0000-0003-4998-0057, University of Iowa), M E Beck (0000-0002-4591-4557, University of Iowa), Sanoop Valappanandi (Foundation for Ecological Security, Madanapalle Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh, India.), Hrushikesh Mahapatra (Foundation for Ecological Security, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.)
Year2022
Volume17
Issue2
Pages230-259
Publication date2022-03-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of South Asian Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0973-1741 • E-ISSN: 0973-1733
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/09731741221078170
OpenAlexW4221048040
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited48

Cookstove improvement projects in India have emerged from the longstanding concerns about the nexus of cooking, fuelwood, gender and the environment. Such work, both academic and interventionist, focuses on rural women hauling headloads of firewood from the forests to their kitchens, where they burn it for daily cooking in a mud cookstove [ chulha]. We argue that this focus on village women’s cooking is too narrow if we are to understand and address problems caused by burning fuelwood in India, as cookstove campaigns attend to villages and not cities, domestic cooking and not commercial uses, and women and not men. Ethnographic research in Rajasthan and Odisha shows why we must expand our understanding of fuelwood use beyond villages, rural kitchens and women, and how cookstove interventions, often expressed as concern for women, require gender analysis

Agroforestry · Archaeology · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Firewood · Geography · Nexus (standard · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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