| Kommentar |
Water is an essential part of life. Water is necessary for all aspects of daily care such as drinking, cooking, washing, and sanitation. Yet water counts also as a scarce resource for agricultural irrigation and is used for energy supply. Whereas water can be considered as the source of life, some consider it to be a tradeable good. Especially under the conditions of climate change, the availability of water becomes crucial.
One can also consider water as a challenging way of thinking beyond disciplinary boundaries but also to show that nature and culture are always co-constituted. The seminar will discuss the different levels of access to and use of water. This contains economic, political, and social issues which we will analyse during the course from a gendered perspective. |
| Literatur |
Bakker, K. (2010): Privatizing Water. Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press.
Coles, A. and Wallace, T. (eds) (2005): Gender, Water and Development. Oxford / New York: Berg.
Harris, L. M. (2015): Hegemonic Waters and Rethinking Natures Otherwise. In: Harcourt, W. and Nelson, I. L. (ed.): Practising Feminist Political Ecology. Moving Beyond The ‘Green Economy’. London: Zed Books, 157-181.
Neimanis, A. and Chen, C. (2013): Thinking with water. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. |
| Bemerkung |
The course is closely linked to the seminar on Feminist Political Ecology and Ecofeminism taught by Prof. Christine Bauhardt (53930). We highly recommend following both courses.
The same class is offered to the students of the Albrecht Daniel Thaer institute under the title of “Gender Analysis in Economics”.
Die Lehrveranstaltung wird ggf. auf Präsenz umgestellt, wenn es das Pandemiegeschehen zulässt. |
