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Book Launch for the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance

Join us for the book launch with the authors of the Handbook of Gender and Water Governance. This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field, exploring how the use, management, and knowledge of water resources, services, and the water environment are deeply gendered.

About the book

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 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 testimony of how hydrofeminism has evolved from rather instrumental gender-and-water studies to scholarship that uses feminist tools to pry open, critically reflect on and formulate alternatives to water development-as-usual. The book also shows how the community of feminists interested in studying water has diversified and expanded, from often white female scholars studying projects and gender relations in the so-called Global South to a varied mix of scholars and activists theorizing from diverse geographical and political locations – prominently including the body. It is organised 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

Programme

During the launch, editors Margreet Zwarteveen (IHE Delft), Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero (Utrecht University), Lisa Bossenbroek (iES University of Kaiserslautern-Landau), along with Wendy Harcourt (ISS Erasmus) and Janwillem Liebrand (Utrecht University), will reflect on this collection of studies. The event will be followed by drinks.

Registration

To participate, please register for the event either in person or online (via teams).