Gendered spaces of payment for environmental services: A critical look1. Issue 1 (17th January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bee, Beth A.
• Is Part Of: Geographical review. Volume 109:Issue 1(2019:Jan.)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 107
• Publication Date: 2018-01-17
• Subjects: feminist theory -- forestry -- gender -- Mexico -- PES -- REDD+; Geography -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1111/gere.12292
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0016-7428

Abstract

Abstract: This article investigates the paradoxical outcomes of a mechanism to promote women's participation in payment for ecosystem services (PES). Focusing specifically on the Legal Representative position, I examine how gendered and generational power dynamics become reinscribed through this position and the various ways that this position is conceptualized, performed, and negotiated. To do this, I combine theoretical insights from feminist theories of subjectivity, political ecology, and forest governance with empirical evidence from a small case study of PES in Jalisco, Mexico. I find that the subjectivity of women within the case study both produce and are produced by gendered and generational differences that simultaneously both challenge and also maintain social‐spatial exclusions. Although this study is limited by its focus on the Legal Representative and a small sample size, such a focused case study sheds light on the social and spatial ways in which PES runs the risk of exacerbating already existing inequities.