Considering the ecohealth approach: Shaping Haitian women's participation in urban agricultural projects

Jennifer Vansteenkiste

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 1, 18-29

Abstract: This paper examines the social and gender politics of a women's urban garden project supported by the International Organisation of Migration, in Cap Haitien, Haiti. My study highlights how the development process created an unmonitored symbolic space where society's normalised gender processes reproduced broader social inequalities, which, in turn, prevented the project from meeting the women's practical and strategic goals. Then, I discuss how the ecohealth approach, as an alternative design framework, could make symbolic space visible to be critically engaged and analysed by participants, to account for gender process, and create an emancipatory activity.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.867307

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