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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. |
