The “un-womanly” attitudes of women in mining towards the environment

Laplonge, Dean

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.01.011

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“…En annan vanlig problembeskrivning har varit att kvinnor utsätts för diskriminering och sexuella trakasserier, problem som i sin tur anses öka med fler kvinnor i gruvindustrin (Fältholm och Norberg 2017). Samtidigt har kvinnor även, i andra sammanhang, setts som lösningen på problem -utifrån föreställningen att fler kvinnor på arbetsplatsen bidrar till att förbättra säkerhet, kvalitet och till och med hållbarhet och miljövänlighet (Laplonge 2017). Föreställningen är att 'kvinnor' har en positiv inverkan på männens beteenden eftersom kvinnorna bidrar med en 'naturlig' annorlundaskap (Eveline och Booth 2002; Mayes och Pinis 2014; Ringblom och Johansson 2017; Norberg och Fältholm 2018).…”

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“…Det som därmed tycks reproduceras, åtminstone i det inledande skedet (i likhet med den digitala tekniken som vi beskriv ovan), är en feminisering av det 'gröna' som en tänkt motpol till en maskuliniserad (vanlig) teknik, rationalisering och industri. I ekofeministiska diskurser kan denna motpol ta formen av en anti-rörelse mot gruvdrift (Laplonge 2016(Laplonge , 2017. Även om det inte är så polariserat i industrin kan könade föreställningar om det 'gröna' möjligen förstärka den framväxande könsbaserade uppdelningen av verksamhetsområden inom gruvindustrin och reproducera essentialiserade föreställningar om manligt och kvinnligt arbete.…”

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Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin

Abrahamsson,

Johansson,

Tosser Franklin

et al. 2024

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This article discusses how changes in male-dominated work are connected to changes in gender constructions in the workplaces. The discussion is based on results from research conducted 2001–2021, mainly qualitative empirical studies of mine work. Although the development of the mining industry will not be as technologically deterministic and rapid as the usual dystopian and utopian visions predict, our research shows that there has already been changes that have affected mine work and workplaces. These changes have challenged the old, gendered mining workplace cultures and the implementation of new technology and reorganisation initially met resistance in the workplace. Workplace cultures seemed to be lagging behind in their acceptance of technological and organizational changes. The resistance was shaped in relation to intertwined masculinities and miner identities linked to the old ‘macho masculin-ity’, a form of local hegemonic masculinity built upon overarching myths and discourses about both mining and rural communities. The subsequent changes of mining work resulted in new gender encodings of the new technology and the new spaces of work – which created new organisational gender boundaries and new forms of inequality. At the same time, there are new forms of masculinities and feminini-ties emerging in mining organizations, which can provide openings for gender equality. Although mine work continues to be male dominated, we can see that new places, new technology, improved work environment and increased gender equality seem to imply that it has become difficult to preserve the old (‘macho’) miner masculinity and to maintain the gender marking of mining work as male and the image of the miner as male. As of now, the ‘green transition’ and the acceleration of new digital technologies implemented in mine work is beginning to shape the industrial workplaces of northern Sweden. The discourses of “green” and “technological transformation” are permeated by gendered preconceptions, by some expected to reshape the masculine workplace of the mine. Yet, our conclusion is that transformation of gendered structures in mining is not foremost dependent of technological change. Rather, we have seen complex connections between gender, technology, work and place for these male-dominated industrial workplaces, including processes of both stability and change, suggesting that changes in workplaces does not only challenge but also reproduce and reconfigure gender-based preconceptions and social constructions of gender.

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Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin

Abrahamsson,

Johansson,

Tosser Franklin

et al. 2024

TGV

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“…Not only does it cause animal extinction, but mining operations also influence seawater [6], [57]. The waste from mining activities will end up in the sea, polluting the seawater and driving fish ecosystems to extinction.…”

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Untangling the Meaning of Photos in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

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Suryani

2023

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This study aims to identify and analyze the meaning of photos in sustainability reports. Visual content analysis was used to determine the motives for using 1823 photos contained in 19 sustainability reports and 24 annual reports of mining companies. Mining companies are vulnerable to conflict because of the environmental pollution they cause; consequently, their legitimacy is threatened. The findings show that 32.58% of the total photos are community-related. Most photos depict the company's relationship with surrounding community groups. In addition, the company's CSR reports include several photos related to the environment, such as unpolluted nature. This is done in an effort to increase the company's legitimacy. Regarding employment practices and decent work, more photos of men than women are displayed, indicating that the mining industry is male-dominated. These findings provide a framework for informing and persuading stakeholders to appreciate the information presented in photographs.

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“…While jobs at the mine and smelter are still predominantly held by men, women in Sorowako have begun to fill these jobs, including women in our study. The growing global phenomenon of more women working in large-scale mining has not solved the environmental and social problems that plagued the industry and has in some cases furthered essentialist claims of women inherently caring more for society and the land (Laplonge, 2017), an approach that Women and Development practitioners promoted. Gender and Development interventions are more attentive to people’s multifaceted identities and how gender operates within institutions, including the gender division of labour (Lahiri-Dutt et al, 2021; Tiessen et al, 2016).…”

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Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia

Glynn

Maimunah

2021

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Resistance to nickel mining in Sorowako, Indonesia has existed since the operation started taking land from farmers in the 1970s. However, in Sorowako and beyond, little is known about the gendered nature of everyday resistance to mining. We conducted a photovoice study with women from two Indigenous communities affected by the same mine to uncover conscious intent in everyday resistance. Some scholars call for abandoning intent and consciousness in analytical frameworks for everyday resistance, but by pairing photovoice with a conjunctural exercise, we found women’s awareness of how dispossession and exploitation for mining affects them and their responses to mining as rural Indigenous women. The participants used photovoice to show that their everyday acts, such as accessing forbidden land, intend to lessen their domination and better their conditions, a kind of quiet encroachment of the ordinary theorized by Bayat.

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The “un-womanly” attitudes of women in mining towards the environment

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin

Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin

Untangling the Meaning of Photos in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia

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