Martina Aruna Padmanabhan

Trying to Grow - Gender Relations and Agricultural Innovations in Northern Ghana

Reihe: Rurale Geschlechterforschung
Trying to Grow - Gender Relations and Agricultural Innovations in Northern Ghana
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  • 978-3-8258-6368-9
  • 3
  • 2002
  • 280
  • broschiert
  • 25,90
Martina Aruna Padmanabhan explores the negotiations at the inter- and intrafaces of knowledge... mehr
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Martina Aruna Padmanabhan explores the negotiations at the inter- and intrafaces of knowledge and gender. The author analyses the construction of gender and knowledge to reveal how innovations in agriculture either transform existing gender relations or unfold a transcending potential. The case studies on the cultivation of cowpeas, onions and soybeans by Dagombas and Kusasis show that supposedly gender-neutral agricultural innovations become contested fields when men and women are "Trying to Grow". The contextualisation and social connotation of a crop decides over women's participation in rural development. This study throws a fresh light on the management of agricultural knowledge.

Dr. Martina Aruna Padmanabhan has been trained as an agricultural engineer in Berlin, Nottingham and Göttingen. She graduated in Rural Sociology with a pronounced interest in gender studies, sociology of knowledge and participatory methodology and gained vast empirical experience during fieldwork in India and Ghana.
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