Building on scholarship addressing gender inequality in forestry, this paper investigates how African scholars experience gendered struggles in doing forest governance research. Employing Bourdieu's theoretical lens of science as a (gendered) social field of struggle, we consider scholars' participation in academia as shaped by dispositions related to gender, locality and other social dimensions of difference. Based on interviews with twenty female and male scholars affiliated with research organisations in African countries, we examine how these dispositions affect their experiences as academics in forest governance research. Therefore, we adopt an integrative interpretative approach to interview analysis focusing on narratives, positionings and discursive dynamics.

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科学作为斗争领域：从事森林治理研究的非洲学者的性别经历


本文以解决林业性别不平等问题的学术研究为基础，调查了非洲学者在森林治理研究中如何经历性别斗争。采用布迪厄的科学理论视角，将科学视为（性别化的）社会斗争领域，我们认为学者对学术界的参与是由与性别、地域和其他社会差异维度相关的倾向决定的。基于对非洲国家研究组织的 20 名女性和男性学者的采访，我们研究了这些性格如何影响他们作为森林治理研究学者的经历。因此，我们采用综合解释方法进行访谈分析，重点关注叙事、定位和话语动态。