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Title Navigating fearscapes: women's coping strategies with(in) the conservation-conflict nexus in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Full text https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/595215
Date 2022
Author(s) Trogisch, Lisa
Abstract The gendered impact of fear from persistent insecurities informs women's navigation within and through conflict- and conservation-shaped landscapes. This article introduces a feminist emotional geography approach into discussions concerning the relationship between conservation and conflict studies to explore how navigation of fear enables women's self-determination and agency in generating survival strategies with(in) such 'violent environments'. Based on visual ethnographic methods employed around Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the photo diaries and narratives of two women illustrate their attempts to make sense of their fears in order to develop emotional and behavioral coping responses in the form of bartering and performativity. Going beyond a dominant focus on 'everyday resistance' against oppressive conservation practices and other armed actors in conflict, I argue that this fear-induced coping allows to account for the compliances and collaborations unfolding with landscape and actors, that afford the women a sense of integrity, agency and ownership of their body and mind.
Subject(s) Conflict; conservation; coping strategies; fear; Virunga; women
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/566291
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format text/html
Source Gender, Place & Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography (2022); ISSN: 0966-369X
Rights Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2035695
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
Added to C-A: 2022-03-10;08:08:21