Intraface: Negotiating Gender-Relations in Agrobiodiversity

Abstract The diversity of plants and animals in agriculture is a social-ecological artefact per se and the result of long-term interaction between humans and agrobiodiversity, displaying the material resistance of the latter. The conceptual framework intraface aims at the analysis of the gendered organization of varieties in an inter- and transdisciplinary research setting. The “negotiations at the intraface” contribute to synthesizing disciplinary perspectives and life-worldly knowledge with a focus on sustainability outcomes with special emphasis on gendered power and interests. The eminent loss of agrobiodiversity requires transdisciplinary knowledge integration for sustainable transformation. The procedure of intraface analysis is illustrated on the case of paddy-rice diversity in Kerala, South India. Keywords: agrobiodiversity; negotiations; intraface analytic framework; transdisciplinarity; India. ----- Intraface: Die Verhandlung von Geschlechterverhaltnissen und Agrobiodiversitat Zusammenfassung Die Vielfalt an Pflanzen und Tieren in der Landwirtschaft ist ein sozial- okologisches Artefakt per se und das Ergebnis langfristiger Interaktionen zwischen Menschen und Agrobiodiversitat, die durch materiellen Widerstand z. B. von Saatgut geformt ist. Der konzeptuelle Rahmen Intraface zielt auf die Analyse der gendered (geschlechtlichen) Organisation dieser Vielfalt in inter- und transdisziplinarer Forschung. Eine Analyse der „Verhandlungen am Intraface“ tragen dazu bei, disziplinare Perspektiven und lebensweltliches Wissen mit Fokus auf Nachhaltigkeit und geschlechtliche (gendered) Interessen zu synthetisieren. Der rasante Verlust an Artenvielfalt erfordert transdisziplinare Wissensintegration fur nachhaltige Ergebnisse. Das Prozedere der Intraface Analyse wird am Fall der Artenvielfalt von Reis in Sudindien demonstriert und zeigt, wie die notwendige Wissensintegration uber das Bruckenkonzept Intraface ermoglicht wird. Schlagworter: Agrobiodiversitat; Verhandlungen; Intraface; Indien; Transdsiziplinaritat. ----- Bibliographie: Padmanabhan, Martina: Intraface: Negotiating Gender-Relations in Agrobiodiversity, FZG, 2-2016, S. 85-105. https://doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v22i2.27058

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