Conclusions: Gender, Nature, Development

Feminist scholars have for long analyzed gender, class, ethnicity, race, and caste, arguing the importance of the social categories in social science research. The chapter follows an empirical analysis of violence of development on gendered bodies and nature. Reflecting on the lack of acknowledgement to women, who are exploitable or labeled as irrational and vulnerable and non-human environment that is objectified as surplus or expendable—explaining how the organization of capital facilitate and relay on violent ways to accumulate through development projects. To establish this argument, the chapter follows narratives collected from women on social transformation due to the changes in their surrounding environment and livelihood practices.