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PEOPLE, SPACES AND PLACES IN GENDERED ENVIRONMENTS

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ADVANCES IN GENDER RESEARCH

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Editors: Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos and Marcia Texler Segal

• Miriam Adelman

  Universidade do Paraná, Brazil

• Franca Bimbi

  University of Padua, Italy

• Paraskevi-Viviane Galata

  Hellenic Open-University, Greece

• Max Greenberg

  Boston University, USA

• Marla Kohlman

  Kenyon College, USA

• Chika Shinohara

  Momoyama Gakuin University

  (St. Andrew’s University), Japan

• Shaminder Takhar

  London South Bank University, UK

• Tiffany Taylor

  Kent State University, USA

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ADVANCES IN GENDER RESEARCH, Volume 34

PEOPLE, SPACES AND PLACES IN GENDERED ENVIRONMENTS

EDITED BY

VASILIKiE (VICKY) DEMOS

University of Minnesota Morris, USA

and

MARCIA TEXLER SEGAL

Indiana University Southeast, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Editors

Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Morris, USA. Her research focuses on race, ethnicity, history, and gender, particularly the construction of ethnicity among Greek women in Greece and the diaspora. She has received various awards, including the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Annual Award and the UMM Distinguished Research Award. She has also served on committees in the American Sociological Association and as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and the North Central Sociological Association. Recently, she participated in efforts to stop pipeline construction near a minority neighborhood and a hospital.

Marcia Texler Segal, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA. The focuses of her research, teaching, publications, and scholarly presentations include gender and international development; intersections of gender, race, and class; history of sociology; and sociology of religion. Her overseas experience has principally been in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Past President of the North Central Sociological Association, she has served in elected and appointed positions in the American and International Sociological Associations and Sociologists for Women in Society. She is currently Co-chair of the Feminist Development Sub-section of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.

About the Contributors

Md Jahangir Alam is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interest covers a broad spectrum of education and development discourses, international education cooperation, and global cooperation studies.

Lubaba Basharat is Research Associate, Bangladesh Consulting Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research interests include higher education and gender equality, workplace environment, sustainable employability, and work–life balance.

Julián Neira Carreño has a Master’s degree in Psychosocial Research and Intervention from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is a Social Psychologist. He collaborates with Tropenbos Colombia to support indigenous youth from the lower Caquetá in the Colombian Amazon. His work focuses on strengthening cultural practices and the transmission of local knowledge from an intergenerational perspective. In addition, he supported the implementation and knowledge management of the call “Women Caregivers of the Amazon”. He conducted research on indigenous territorial management in the deforestation arc zone of Colombia. His research interests include indigenous youth participa-tion and policies, indigenous territorial management, gender and intersectionality, development of participatory intercultural methodologies.

Marzia D’Amico is a Junior Researcher (FCT) at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Their research explores the interplay between tradition and experimentalism in its forms, expressions, languages, and codes, with a focus on the socio-political implication behind non-male subjects’ production of verbivocovisual poetry. They received a DPhil from the University of Oxford, in which they focused on gender and genre theories with a distinctive interest in the first epic poetry written by women in Italian. They published Figlie del Sé. L’epica rivoluzionaria di Amelia Rosselli e Patrizia Vicinelli (Mimesis, 2023) and various scientific articles about the Italian counter-canon panorama, with a specific involvement in feminist theory and practices. They co-run an open-access transfeminist monthly newsletter (Ghinea) and engage regularly in many forms of broadening the extents of academic results to larger audiences, particularly through their work as a multilingual poet and translator.

K. Lorena Romero Leal is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Florida and has MA in Latin American Studies from Leiden University. She is Co-founder and President of the non-governmental organization Fundación Yauda, Colombia, organization focused on promoting research and intervention in the Amazon region from a bottom-up approach developing dialogic processes with grassroots organizations. She has conducted her doctoral studies with a Fulbright–Colombian Ministry of Science scholarship and has received grants from different Colombian and US institutions. Her research interests include gendered ecologies, feminist political ecology, intersectionality, women leadership, embodiment, and decolonizing methodologies. Her research projects span practices and representations of regions such as the Amazon, the Latin-American continent, and the Netherlands. She has more than 10 academic publications in Spanish and English.

Todd Jared LeVasseur, PhD, teaches at the College of Charleston, USA, in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program, focusing his research and teaching on issues related to the environmental humanities, religion and nature, sustainability, and navigating runaway climate change.

Christina Marouli, PhD, is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Deree-American College of Greece (ACG), and works on issues of sustainable cities and gender, food waste, education for sustainability, and social change. She is a socially active scholar (e.g., worked at non-governmental organizations for women and children and founded the ACG Center of Excellence in Sustainability).

Dao T. Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University Global, USA. She has extensive experience in higher education and public administration as a researcher, educator, manager, policy-maker, and evaluator. Her research interests revolve around issues related to gender, race, and social stratification, focusing on policy, leadership, and practice. Her scholarly works were published in peer-reviewed journals – International Journal of Public Administration, American Journal of Qualitative Research, Journal of Educational Administration, and International Higher Education. She worked in various capacities for An Giang University, IRED Institute of Education, University of Pittsburgh IISE, CIES Executive Director Office, and CPED Executive Director Office. She holds a PhD in Higher Education Management from the University of Pittsburgh with minors in Gender-Sexuality-Women’s Studies, Research Methodology, and Asian and Global Studies. She also has a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree in Teacher Education from Can Tho University.

Asmae Ourkiya, PhD, an ecofeminist researcher and founder, bridges humanities, climate politics, and sciences with over a decade of experience. Their groundbreaking work, highlighted in their book Queer Ecofeminism, explores environmentalism, ecological feminism, climate justice, and gender studies. As the Founder of The Ecofeminist Institute Ltd., they advocate for global sustainability, gender, and climate justice.

Paul M. Pulé, PhD, is a social and environmental justice scholar-activist. He is widely published in gender and environment discourses, having authored the monograph Ecological Masculinities and edited the anthology Men, Masculinities & Earth. He co-founded the Starfish Collective that educates on gender ecologization toward a sustainable future.

Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology, Fordham University, USA, is the author of 11 books and over 70 academic pieces. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Sociological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions in the Field of Latina/o Studies and her university’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Social Sciences.

Rachana Sharma, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. Her areas of research interest include migration, gender, economic sociology, and social exclusion and inclusion of weaker sections. She is a recipient of Seminar and Project grants from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and National Commission for Women, Indian Council of Social Science Research. Her book, Shops and the Malls, was published by a reputed publication house in New Delhi, India and she has written several articles concerning issues of gender. She has held positions as a Consultant, Youth Affairs in State AIDS Control Society under the National AIDS Control Organization, India and has also worked as assistant professor in various colleges in Punjab. In addition to teaching, she also actively collaborates with a number of non-governmental organizations to support the cause of women and children. She was a member of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment as well.