Governance, conflict and development in South Asia: perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka/ edited by Siri Hettige, Eva Gerharz.

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Contributors

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.