1st Edition

Climate Change, Gender Roles and Hierarchies Socioeconomic Transformation in an Ethnic Minority Community in Viet Nam

By Phuong Ha Pham, Donna L. Doane Copyright 2021
158 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued its self-sufficient way of life in this remote forested mountainous region, but in recent years has been forced to respond to severe climate threats combined with sudden and destabilizing socioeconomic and regulatory change.... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Impact of a Changing Climate on an Ethnic Minority Community in a Remote Mountainous Region of Viet Nam 3. The Co Tu Of Ca Dy Commune: Vulnerabilities in the Face of Rapid Change 4. The Struggle For Food and Livelihood Security: Changing Livelihoods, Gender Roles and Hierarchies 5. Summary of Findings and Possible Ways Forward

Biography

Phuong Ha Pham has been working as a researcher and independent gender consultant for international organizations in Viet Nam and in the Greater Mekong Subregion, focusing primarily on women’s empowerment, gender and ethnicity, gender and agriculture/rural development, and gender and climate change.

Donna L. Doane has been working in universities and research institutions in Thailand, the Philippines, India, Japan and the United States, focusing on issues related to the informal economy, low-income women’s economic empowerment and security, gender and ethnicity, and indigenous knowledge and technology blending.