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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495168803321

Autore

Helbert Maryse

Titolo

Women, Gender and Oil Exploitation / / by Maryse Helbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2021

ISBN

9783030818036

3030818039

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 pages)

Collana

Gender, Development and Social Change, , 2730-7336

Disciplina

305.42091724

305.4091724

Soggetti

Economic development

Identity politics

Development Studies

Politics and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Toward an Ecofeminist Analysis of Oil Extraction -- 2 Bog Down in the Middle: Women, the Niger Delta and the Oil Industry Complex -- 3 Venezuela - the Socialist Experiment -- 4 The World Bank: Bringing Women to the Fore -- 5 Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: The 'Model' Project -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the gender dimensions of large-scale mining in the oil industry and how oil exploitation has produced long-term economic, political, social and environmental risks and benefits in developing countries. It also shows that these risks and benefits have been unequally distributed between women and men. This project maps the ongoing dialogue between women's issues and resource management, particularly, oil. The author attempts to answer the following questions: What are the impacts of oil projects on women in oil-rich countries? How can these impacts be explained? How can these impacts be reduced? Maryse Helbert is Assistant Professor, Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, the Netherlands.