User:Samanthaklos/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Ecofeminism
 * Comment: Please check my comments in Canvas. I'm suggesting you work on the section “Climate Change and women” in the article “Women and the environment." Hieup (talk)hieup


 * Article Evaluation
 * In the "Movements of the 1970's and 80s" section, detail and breadth is very limited- areas including New York, Detroit, and Kenya are listed as places with established ecofeminism movements but there is no discussion of any country or city in Southeast Asia. I also think that there is a lot to be said about the Ecofeminism movement after the 1980's in general as well (specifically in Southeast Asia as my source ideas will have discussed). I also think that the minority/fringe viewpoints in the "intersectionality" section could be elaborated upon. There are many statements made in the article that are facts or points that would require a source a do not have one, so I would add credible sources if I added to this about an ecofeminism movement in Southeast Asia/one country specifically. Overall I think this article is a good starting place but would benefit from detail on specific cases and evolution of the movement.


 * Sources
 * Gender and Climate Change: Snapshots from Southeast Asia
 * ASEAN Gender Outlook Report
 * Discovering the differential and gendered consequences of natural disasters on the gender gap in life expectancy in Southeast Asia

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Land Grabbing


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article contains a lot of good background information on land grabs but not many detailed case studies. I think land grabs and specifically disaster capitalism are very important in Southeast Asia specifically, as we read in class, so a section dedicated to this would be beneficial. The article has a sentence about land grabs being done in order to develop tourist attractions in Asia, but that is the extent of it. Using the Uson Article from class to build an addition about disaster capitalism in Southeast Asia would be really interesting. The environmental impact of land grabs, their environmental roots, and the natural disasters that sometimes cause them, were not big points of discussion here. Although, I did like the sections on food-driven investment and displacement- but there is potential to add information specifically about a Southeast Asian nation here.


 * Sources
 * Our class readings on disaster capitalism: Uson Natural Disasters and Land Grabs
 * Land Grabbing: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia