Author: Masooma Butt
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-07-16
Year: 2007
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2007
Examination Committee: Bernadette P. Resurreccion (Chairperson); Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Philippe Doneys (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: While, relating to the water issue within the family of Natural Resources, the study was undertaken to analyze the gender dimensions of ongoing resistance phenomenon through the engagement of social actors in the resistance process against the construction of mega Kalabagh dam on Pakistan’s Indus River. The study aimed to focus the verbal, textual and visual discourses of social actors in order to examine the gendered implications of the resistance that has become a political turmoil in the country among transboundary provinces and federal government. Moreover, two-fold analysis of livelihood situation of affected people men and women in potentially submerged villages of Kalabagh Dam was also the part of investigation to anticipate the effects of dam construction on them as well as to explore the connection of actual gender specific livelihoods with the discourses of resistance, that how they interact and address these issues during protest activities. The study was carried out in Northern Province of Pakistan. A mixed method research approach was applied to meet with the objectives and to address research questions appropriately. In the first phase of data collection, Eighty six household survey formats were administered both with male and female members of a household in two affected sample villages, from upstream and downstream potentially submerged area respectively to get the comparative picture of livelihoods. In the second and third phase of study, plenty of in depth interviews, focus group discussions and record review exercises were conducted with villagers, all types of social actors involved in resistance process at all levels in the province and government officials to depict the true picture of resistance phenomenon with gender lens. The study reveals that the resistance to the construction of dam has distinctive characters in Pashtun majority and non-Pashtoon areas of Northern Province. As per nature of activities it is mainly visible in Pashtun (major ethnic tribe) majority downstream area, epit
Scholarship Donor(s): International Development Research Center Canada
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies with specialization in Gender, Development and Environment, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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