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Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender and water governance, exploring how the use, management and knowledge of water resources, services and the water environment are deeply gendered. In water there is a recognized gender gap between water responsibilities and water rights and bridging this gap is likely to help achieve not just goals of equity but also those of sustainability. Building on a rich legacy of feminist water scholarship, the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance is a collection of reflections and studies that can be used as a prismatic lens into a thriving and ever proliferating array of feminist water studies. It provides a clear tes...
Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus enabling new conceptions of politics, justice and alternatives to dominant, capitalist development trajectories". In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to b...
Insurgent Ecologies
We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs to change, and fast. Thankfully, radical environmental movements have forced the question of “system change” to the centre of the political agenda to make way for a just and livable world. Insurgent Ecologies takes readers on an inspiring journey across key sites of ecological crisis and contestation, showing how revolutionary politics can emerge from the convergences between place-based, often disconnected struggles. These engaging essays speak to longstanding debates in political ecolog...
Political Ecologies of COVID-19
By March 2020, COVID-19 had affected nearly every community on earth, either with infections or with mobility restrictions. Significant peer reviewed research effort has gone into understanding the virus and its spread, mainly from an epidemiological and medical perspective. Political ecologists have been somewhat critical of such analyses because of their failure to understand the sociality of COVID-19 and its emergence. They emphasise the need to look for how the virus has acted upon inclusions and exclusions and current cleavages in society despite the fact that it can potentially attack anyone anywhere. Commentaries have therefore drawn attention to the more-than-human assemblages that a...
Making Water Security
This book examines Nile water security through the morphology of the river: it uses the always changing form of the river as a theoretical and empirical device to map and understand how infrastructures and discourses dynamically interact with the Nile. By bringing a history of two centuries of dam development on the Nile in relation with the drainage of a hill slope in Ethiopia on the one hand and irrigation reform in Sudan on the other, the author shows how the scales, units and ‘populations’ figuring in projects to securitize the river emerge through the rearrangement of its water and sediments. The analysis of ‘Making water security’ is more than yet another story of how modern pr...
Das Scheitern des grünen Kapitalismus
Der grüne Kapitalismus verspricht, die ökologische Krise durch technische Innovationen und marktwirtschaftliche Instrumente in den Griff zu bekommen. Doch die bisherige Bilanz dieses Versprechens ist ernüchternd: Seit die Konzepte des grünen Wachstums und ökologisch ausgerichteter Märkte vor mehr als 20 Jahren entwickelt worden sind, hat sich die Zerstörung der Ökosysteme ungebremst fortgesetzt und teils beschleunigt. Zudem vermag es der grüne Kapitalismus nicht, notwendige gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen einer sozialökologischen Transformation zu schaffen: Während ökologische Katastrophen die Welt erschüttern, vertieft sich die soziale Ungleichheit in bisher nicht gekanntem Maße. Der Band stellt Analysen dieses bisherigen Scheiterns vor und erkundet gegenwärtige Aussichten einer ökologischen Modernisierung. Zudem fragt er nach Alternativen, die stärker auf demokratische Planung und gesellschaftliche Kooperation setzen.
