The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance 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.
Published as one of the outputs of the Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (WEGO) research project, The Handbook Handbook of Gender and Water Governance is a collection of reflections and studies on feminist water governance. It provides a clear testimony of how hydrofeminism has evolved into a scholarship that uses feminist tools to pry open, critically reflect on and formulate alternatives to water development-as-usual.
The chapters are written by a varied mix of scholars and activists theorizing from diverse geographical and political locations – prominently including the body.
The book is organized into five interconnected parts:
- Part I: Positionality and embodied waters
- Part II: Revisiting water debates: diplomacy, security, justice and heritage
- Part III: Sanitation stories
- Part IV: Precarious livelihoods
- Part V: New feminist futures
Each of these parts brings out the gendered nature of water, shedding light on the often neglected care and unpaid labour of women and its relationship with extractivism and socioeconomic inequalities.
The overall aim of the Handbook is to apply social science insights to water governance challenges, creating synergies and linkages between different disciplines and scientific domains.
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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance is edited By Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Lisa Bossenbroek, Irene Leonardelli, Margreet Zwarteveen, Seema Kulkarni
