Unwrapping the memory box : gendered livelihoods in a forest community in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh

Sajal Roy, Habib Zafarullah, Arunima Kishore Das

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Abstract

The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding. Considering the impacts of cyclones Aila and Sidr, this autoethnographic study closely examines the long-established perceptions of women and men about the resources of the Sundarbans. While doing so, this study uses feminist political ecology as a theoretical framework. This study examines how these two cyclones transformed lives and gendered livelihoods of the villagers of Shora in the Sundarbans forest.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)375-394
Number of pages20
JournalAsian Journal of Social Science
Volume48
Issue number45385
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Bangladesh
  • Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India)
  • cyclones
  • environmental aspects
  • forests and forestry

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