caa a22 4500 467898758 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9006-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9006-3 An assessment of women's access to natural resources through communal projects in South Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Brent McCusker, Ann Oberhauser] With the passing of the apartheid regime and its multi-faceted mechanisms of exclusion, women in rural South Africa have begun expanding their access to natural resources for livelihood enhancement. One of the ways this has occurred is through community-based organizations that focus on local production as a mechanism to transform natural resources into material goods. While this practice is nearly ubiquitous throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the apartheid regime was particularly effective in limiting access to natural resources, a phenomenon reversed by the current democratic government. In this paper, we assess the impact of organizational design on women's livelihood systems as a means of alleviating rural poverty. We surveyed women on both more formal, or bureaucratic, organizations and more informal, or socially-embedded, organizations. After locating the discussion in the relevant gender, environment, and livelihoods literatures, we employ four concepts, organizational context, environmental entitlement, livelihood systems, and gender and power relations to assess the impact of organizational design on livelihood enhancement. Having found that women derived no significant material benefit from participation in either type of organization, we conclude that women are straddling two processes, neo-liberalization and neo-traditionalism, that impact gender and power relations. This situation has left women in vulnerable positions within their organizations and with little livelihood enhancement. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Gender nationallicence Communal organizations nationallicence Limpopo nationallicence Natural Resources nationallicence South Africa nationallicence McCusker Brent Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 425 White Hall #6300, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Oberhauser Ann Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 425 White Hall #6300, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/4(2006-08-01), 325-339 0343-2521 66:4<325 2006 66 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9006-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9006-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCusker Brent Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 425 White Hall #6300, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oberhauser Ann Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 425 White Hall #6300, 26506, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/4(2006-08-01), 325-339 0343-2521 66:4<325 2006 66 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer