Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Agriculture, Environment, Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Rural development, Environmental studies, Gender, Race and ethnicity studies, Feminist studies, Political ecology, Transdisciplinary science and participatory methodologies
Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship from "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society", 2009
English, Hindi, Swedish
“Does Resilience have a culture? Ecocultures and the Politics of Knowledge Production,” Ecological Economics, 121 (98-107) 2016.
Seema Arora-Jonsson et al, “Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship,” Antipode. 48 (1) 74-96. 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12170/full
Lisa Westholm and Seema Arora-Jonsson, “Defining solutions, finding problems: deforestation, gender and REDD+ in Burkina Faso,” in Conservation and Society, 13 (2) 2015.
Sara Holmgren and Seema Arora-Jonsson, “The Forest Kingdom – With What Values for the World? Gender equality and climate change in a new Swedish forest policy context,” Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 30:3 (235-245) 2015.
“Forty years of gender research and environmental policy: where do we stand” in Women’s Studies International Forum, 47 (295-308). 2014.
"Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change" in Global Environmental Change, 21:744-751. 2011.
"Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism in Forest Communities in India and Sweden" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 35, no. 1. 2009. Article awarded the Catherine Stimpson prize for outstanding feminist scholarship.
"Relational Dynamics and Strategies: Men and Women in a Forest Community in Sweden," Agriculture and Human Values, Volume 21, Issue 4, 2004.
Gender, development and environmental governance: Theorizing Connections, 2013, Routledge, London/New York. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415890373/
The Beast of Bureaucracy and other tales from Valhalla, Andrea Cornwall, Katja Jassey, Seema Arora Jonsson and Patta Scott-Villiers, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, 2007. (Booklet)
"Gender and Climate: Global Instruments and Changing Environmental Governance": how global climate finance instruments such as REDD+ are creating new global forest spaces in countries in Africa as well as new terms of citizenship for forest communities
"Gender and Power in the Swedish countryside": how gender and ethnicity organize development initiatives and the changing nature of associational work in rural Sweden
I am soon to start on the project on "Gender and Sustainable Development: Policy and Practice in Environmental Management", where I contrast domestic environmental policy-making and practice in Sweden with Swedish development aid policy and examine why popular participation and gender that are promoted in development aid are sidelined in domestic forest policy. I theorize the different influences and political and moral assumptions that shape policy with regard to gender and participation within the country and in its policy abroad.
Coordinator for working group on Gender Research in Forestry, Division 6 – Social aspects of forests and forestry (Unit 6.08.01), "IUFRO (International Union for Forest Research Organizations", since 2010
Member, "Gender Justice & Global Climate Change Justice Research Network" coordinated by University of Penn State, USA and Monash University, Australia
Board member for the Research School on "Society, Landscape and Land Use", Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, since 2013
Committee member of "Devnet, Development Research Network on Poverty and Power" (a network of researchers working on these issues in Swedish universities), coordinated at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, 2007 – 2011
Node member of the "Gender and Development Network", previously coordinated from the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, 2004 – 2011, and now an informal network with rotating leadership
Swedish Research Council ("Vetenskapsrådet"), Panel: UF-1: Humanities, Social and Behavioural sciences, 2013, 2014
"ESPA" (Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation) Fellowship Scheme funded by the NERC, ESRC and UK Aid, 2014
"Young Connectors for the Future," Swedish Institute, 2014
Swedish Research Links Program at the Swedish Research Council ("Vetenskapsrådet"), 2007, 2008, 2009
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