Keerty Nakray, Margaret Alston and Kerrie Whittenbury (eds). Understanding Social Science Researc... more Keerty Nakray, Margaret Alston and Kerrie Whittenbury (eds). Understanding Social Science Research Ethics: Inter-disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives for a Globalising World, Routledge, forthcoming. 2014.
Collaborative approaches have become increasingly evident in policies governing environmental man... more Collaborative approaches have become increasingly evident in policies governing environmental management. However, realizing these approaches has proven to be challenging. In this paper we discuss why this is the case by using a gender theoretical lens. By attending to prevailing norms of masculinity and femininity within Swedish Environmental Agencies, we gain understanding about what implications these norms have for working collaboratively. Our findings suggest that these organizations are gendered, leaving women administrators with lower status tasks, not in line with the traditional scientific expert roles valued in these organizations. The gender of administrators are thus both a cause and effect: the status of collaborative projects are low in the natural resource management organization, which leads to administrators having low status get appointed these projects, which in turn reproduces the view of these projects as less important. Our findings contribute to thediscussion on problems of realizing collaborative environmental policies.
Keerty Nakray, Margaret Alston and Kerrie Whittenbury (eds). Understanding Social Science Researc... more Keerty Nakray, Margaret Alston and Kerrie Whittenbury (eds). Understanding Social Science Research Ethics: Inter-disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives for a Globalising World, Routledge, forthcoming. 2014.
Collaborative approaches have become increasingly evident in policies governing environmental man... more Collaborative approaches have become increasingly evident in policies governing environmental management. However, realizing these approaches has proven to be challenging. In this paper we discuss why this is the case by using a gender theoretical lens. By attending to prevailing norms of masculinity and femininity within Swedish Environmental Agencies, we gain understanding about what implications these norms have for working collaboratively. Our findings suggest that these organizations are gendered, leaving women administrators with lower status tasks, not in line with the traditional scientific expert roles valued in these organizations. The gender of administrators are thus both a cause and effect: the status of collaborative projects are low in the natural resource management organization, which leads to administrators having low status get appointed these projects, which in turn reproduces the view of these projects as less important. Our findings contribute to thediscussion on problems of realizing collaborative environmental policies.
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Agencies, we gain understanding about what implications these norms have for working collaboratively. Our findings suggest that these organizations are gendered, leaving women administrators with lower status tasks, not in line with the traditional scientific expert roles valued in these organizations. The gender of administrators are thus both a cause
and effect: the status of collaborative projects are low in the natural resource management organization, which leads to administrators having low status get appointed these projects, which in turn reproduces the view
of these projects as less important. Our findings contribute to thediscussion on problems of realizing collaborative environmental policies.
Agencies, we gain understanding about what implications these norms have for working collaboratively. Our findings suggest that these organizations are gendered, leaving women administrators with lower status tasks, not in line with the traditional scientific expert roles valued in these organizations. The gender of administrators are thus both a cause
and effect: the status of collaborative projects are low in the natural resource management organization, which leads to administrators having low status get appointed these projects, which in turn reproduces the view
of these projects as less important. Our findings contribute to thediscussion on problems of realizing collaborative environmental policies.