Detraz - Gender and the Environment

For my students

Copyright Nicole Detraz 2017

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First published in 2017 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6382-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6383-8 (pb)

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Names: Detraz, Nicole, author.

Title: Gender and the environment / Nicole Detraz.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016017578| ISBN 9780745663821 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780745663838 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781509511969 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509511952 (Mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: Women and the environment. | Environmental policySocial aspects. | Environmental managementSocial aspects. | Environmental protectionSocial aspects. | Global environmental changeSocial aspects.

Classification: LCC GE195.9 .D47 2016 | DDC 304.2081dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017578

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This book is dedicated to my students. I love teaching global environmental politics (GEP), and I have been fortunate enough to do so at two institutions. While there are positives to each of the classes I teach, I am the happiest in my GEP classes. This is because my students inevitably challenge me to think differently on issues that I have been grappling with since graduate school. They ask questions and push discussions of topics like the politics of sustainability, justice, security, and resource use in directions that I didn't necessarily anticipate, but that enrich my lectures immeasurably. This is important not only for my teaching, but also for my research, as I reevaluate taken-for-granted assumptions. I am a better teacher and scholar for my interactions with each class.

There are a number of people I would like to thank for their support, help, and friendship as I worked on this manuscript. I would like to begin by thanking Mark Johnson and Hannah Guess for their research help. I am very fortunate to have had such hard-working graduate assistants. I would also like to thank Sera Babakus for coming out of GA retirement and agreeing to read a complete manuscript draft for me. Sera, you are completely wonderful.

Thanks to the GEP and FTGS international relations communities for the great work that you do. It is wonderful to be part of two different groups of scholars who show such passion and dedication to making our field, and our world, a bit better. I am most grateful to Sonalini Sapra and Annica Kronsell for reading over some early thoughts on the book project quite some time ago.

My colleagues at the University of Memphis also deserve a great many thanks for providing encouragement and assistance in all that I do. As far as I am concerned, there are no better people to work with than each of you. It is a great feeling to enjoy the company of the people I work with and consider them friends.

Thanks also to my family and friends for being there for me. Your love means the world to me. Thanks to Kirby, Brenda, Paige, John, Alexander, and Aubrey for the sandcastles, and snow angels, and cookouts. You have shaped my appreciation of multiple places and spaces. Thanks also to Dursun and my Turkish family for showing me the natural beauty of your amazing country so that I might reflect on humanenvironment connections in an entirely new place. Hepinizi cok seviyorum (I love you all).

Last, but never least, I would like to thank Nekane Tanaka Galdos and Louise Knight at Polity for being absolutely fabulous to work with. Your patience and support are most appreciated. I have really loved finding such a great home for two of my books at Polity.