What is it about?
There is a higher than usual gender imbalance (absence of women) in Illegal game hunting (poaching) than in other male-dominated pursuits. Gender imbalance is generally attributed to be created artificially by people in power who are generalized as white and male. A marked absence of women in poaching cannot be, however, explained by such a model of drawing exclusionary boundaries within professional or amateur pursuits. The article suggests that more attention should be given to boundaries also created in other ways than the empowered-male model suggests.
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Why is it important?
The article attempts to probe deeper into the ways exclusionary boundaries are created, including gender imbalances.
Perspectives
I have chosen an unusual way of examining creation of exclusionary boundaries and gender imbalances: through a look into illegal hunting. Another possible direction with such pursuits is treasure-hunting. That is again marked (in the Balkans at least), by greater than usual absence of women in men-dominated pursuits. I promise to continue with that at the end of the article. Be looking forward!
Yulian Konstantinov
Bulgarian Society for Regional Cultural Studies (BSRCS)
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This page is a summary of: ‘Hyper-gender’ asymmetries: women's absence in illegal taking from nature (Poaching) (Notes from Bulgaria and Murmansk Region, NW Russia), Polar Geography, June 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2018.1491651.
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