Governance, conflict and development in South Asia: perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka/ edited by Siri Hettige, Eva Gerharz.
Material type: TextSeries: Governance, conflict and civic action series, v. 6Publication details: New Delhi: Sage, 2015Description: xi, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9789351501008Subject(s): Social conflict | South Asia | Politics and government | Economic developmentDDC classification: 320.954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Foreword:A quarter century of knowledge and change: pushing feminism, politics, and ecology in new directions with feminist political ecology;
Acknowledgments;
1 Introduction: towards a feminist political ecology of women, global change, and vulnerable waterscapes;
PART I
1 Feminist political ecology and large-scale water resource management.
2 Interrogating large-scale development and inequality in Lesotho: bridging feminist political ecology, intersectionality, and environmental justice frameworks
3 The silent (and gendered) violence: understanding water access in mining areas;
4 Urban water visibility in Los Angeles: legibility and access for all;
5 Advances and setbacks in women's participation in water management in Brazil;
PART II
Women and innovative adaptation to global environmental change;
6 Climate-water challenges and gendered adaptation strategies in Rayón, a riparian community in Sonora, Mexico.
7 International partnerships of women for sustainable watershed governance in times of climate change
8 Women's contributions to climate change adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme through cactus cultivation and adjusted irrigation;
PART III Stories, narratives, and knowledge production of socio-environmental change;
9 Shoes in the seaweed and bottles on the beach: global garbage and women's oral histories of socio-environmental change in coastal Yucatán.
10 Storytelling water north of the future Héen Kas'él'ti Xoo (among the ragged lakes): collaborative water research with Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Yukon Territory, Canada11 Pamiri women and the melting glaciers of Tajikistan: a visual knowledge exchange for improved environmental governance;
12 Conclusions: advancing multi-disciplinary scholarship on gender, water, and environmental change through feminist political ecology;
Appendix:
Tlingit/Tagish stories;
Index.
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