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1 Buechler, S.; Hanson, A.-M. (Eds.) 2015. A political ecology of women, water and global environmental change. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 262p.
Political ecology ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Women in development ; Water resources ; Water management ; Environmental factors ; Globalization ; Partnerships ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Water availability ; Water governance ; Watersheds ; Lakes ; Urban areas ; Rural settlement ; Mining ; Social aspects ; Violence ; Ethnic groups ; Riparian zones ; Sustainability ; Cultivation ; Irrigation methods ; Seaweeds ; Wastes / South Africa / USA / Brazil / Mexico / Egypt / Canada / Tajikistan / Lesotho / Los Angeles / Rayon / Sonora / Yucatan / Yukon Territory
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 BUE Record No: H047093)
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2 Momsen, J. 2010. Gender and development. 2nd ed. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 285p. (Routledge Perspectives on Development)
Gender ; Women in development ; Economic sectors ; Social change ; Households ; Violence ; Equity ; Education ; Health hazards ; Sex ratio ; Migration ; Sexual reproduction ; Environmental effects ; Drinking water ; Forests ; Biodiversity ; Agricultural development ; Labour market ; Time study ; Microfinance ; Urbanization ; Waste management ; Globalization ; Rural areas / Caribbean / Middle East / South Asia / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh / Singapore / China / Romania / Lesotho
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 MOM Record No: H047633)
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3 Harcourt, W.; Nelson, I. L. (Eds.) 2015. Practicing feminist political ecologies: moving beyond the 'green economy'. London, UK: Zed Books. 326p.
Gender ; Women in development ; Political aspects ; Social aspects ; Economic development ; Water supply ; Natural resources ; Ecology ; Environmental management ; Climate change adaptation ; Resilience ; Sustainability ; Living standards ; Labor ; Violence ; Legal aspects ; Communities ; Urban areas ; Research / South America / Nepal / Scotland / Kenya / Mozambique / Andes
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 HAR Record No: H047669)
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4 Roic, K.; Garrick, D.; Qadir, M. 2017. The ebb and flow of water conflicts: a case study of India and Pakistan. In Adeel, Z.; Wirsing, R. G. (Eds.). Imagining industan: overcoming water insecurity in the Indus Basin. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp.49-66. (Water Security in a New World) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32845-4_4]
International waters ; Domestic water ; Conflict ; International cooperation ; Databases ; River basins ; Dams ; Political aspects ; Population ; Violence ; Case studies / India / Pakistan / Indus Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ADE Record No: H048211)
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A growing body of evidence suggests that domestic water conflicts are not only more prevalent and violent than water conflicts at the international level, they can also have regional and international implications. Using India and Pakistan as a case study, this chapter explores how water conflicts within these two countries affect water relations between them. The chapter uses two forms of research. First, it employs event databases to provide a general overview of the frequency and intensity of water conflict and cooperation both between and within India and Pakistan from 1948 to 2014. Second, it draws on expert perspectives to provide more context and analysis of how water conflicts at these two scales-domestic and international- interact. The chapter concludes that water conflicts within India are largely self-contained and have no bearing on its water relations with Pakistan, whereas water conflicts within Pakistan are closely tied to India's actions upstream and therefore have a tendency to irritate water relations between them internationally.
5 Desai, R. 2018. Urban planning, water provisioning and infrastructural violence at public housing resettlement sites in Ahmedabad, India. Water Alternatives, 11(1):86-105.
Water supply ; Infrastructure ; Maintenance ; Urban planning ; Public housing ; Resettlement ; Human behaviour ; Violence ; Conflicts ; Poverty ; Drinking water ; Water policy ; Water governance ; Municipal authorities ; Political aspects / India / Ahmedabad
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048523)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048523.pdf
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This paper examines the links between urban planning and the politics of water provisioning and violence and conflict in people’s lives by drawing upon research in a low-income locality in Ahmedabad, India. By focusing on public housing sites constructed to resettle poor and low-income residents displaced from central and intermediate areas of the city for urban development projects, the paper looks beyond poor, informal neighbourhoods to explore the dynamics of water provisioning and inequalities in the city. A close examination of the water infrastructure at the sites and their everyday workings is undertaken in order to unravel the socio-material configurations which constitute inadequate water flows, and the ways in which urban planning, policies and governance produce infrastructural violence at the sites. It also traces the various forms of water-related deprivations, burdens, inequities, tensions and conflicts that emerge in people’s lives as a result of their practices in the context of this infrastructural violence.
6 Marcatelli, M.; Buscher, B. 2019. Liquid violence: the politics of water responsibilisation and dispossession in South Africa. Water Alternatives, 12(2):760-773.
Water resources ; Water availability ; Property rights ; Dispossession ; Water supply ; Political aspects ; Violence ; Social aspects ; Infrastructure / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049356)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue2/526-a12-2-9/file
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049356.pdf
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This article introduces the notion of liquid violence to explain structural and racialised water inequality in contemporary South Africa. Investigating the Waterberg region in Limpopo Province from a water perspective reveals a growing surplus population composed of (ex-)farm workers and their families. Following their relocation – often coerced – from the farms to the town of Vaalwater, these people have been forced to rely on a precarious water supply, while white landowners maintain control over abundant water resources. And yet, as we show, this form of structural violence is perceived as ordinary, even natural. Our biopolitical concept of liquid violence emphasises how this works out and is legitimised in empirical practice. The argument starts from the neoliberal idea that water access depends upon the individual responsibilisation of citizens. For the black working poor, this means accepting to pay for water services or to provide labour on farms. For white landowners, it implies tightening their exclusive control over water and resisting any improvement to the urban supply involving the redistribution of resources. Supported and enabled by the state, liquid violence operates by reworking the boundaries between the public and private spheres. On the one hand, it blurs them by transforming the provision of public water services into a market exchange. On the other hand, and paradoxically, it hardens those same boundaries by legitimising and strengthening the power of those who have property rights in water.
7 Huijsmans, R. (Ed.) 2016. Generationing development: a relational approach to children, youth and development. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 335p. (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3]
Children ; Youth ; Child development ; Young workers ; Age groups ; Socioeconomic environment ; Economic development ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Gender ; Women ; Violence ; Discrimination ; Refugees ; Poverty ; Migration ; Migrants ; Labour ; Sex workers ; Agricultural sector ; Farmers ; Teachers ; Parents ; Livelihoods ; Education ; Schools ; Households ; Marriage ; Social aspects ; Rural communities ; Cash transfers ; Urban areas / Jordan / Canada / Vietnam / Ethiopia / Ghana / India / Ecuador / Burundi / Nova Scotia / Addis Ababa / Tamale / Tamil Nadu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H049581)
8 Mary, S. 2022. Dams mitigate the effect of rainfall shocks on Hindus-Muslims riots. World Development, 150:105731. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105731]
Agricultural production ; Rain ; Mitigation ; Dams ; Farm income ; Trends ; Conflicts ; Violence ; Models / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050870)
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Sarsons (2015) finds that, while agricultural income in India is less sensitive to rainfall in dam-fed districts, rainfall shocks have a larger (or equally large) effect on religious riots between Muslims and Hindus in dam-fed districts than in rain-fed districts. This is inconsistent with agricultural income being the sole channel through which rainfall affects religious conflict in India. In this comment, we show that this result originates from the use of state-specific time trends and interaction models. Once we replace state-specific time trends with state-year fixed effects (in slit sample regressions) and allow state-year fixed effects to be different between rain-fed and dam-fed districts (in interaction models), we find that while (fractional) rainfall shocks affect agricultural production and religious violence in rain-fed districts, they have no effect on agricultural production and religious violence in dam-fed districts. In other words, dams fully mitigate the effect of rainfall shocks on agricultural output and religious violence in the Indian context.
9 Olumba, E. E.; Nwosu, B. U.; Okpaleke, F. N.; Okoli, R. C. 2022. Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel. Third World Quarterly, 43(9):2075-2090. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2083601]
Water resources ; Agricultural resources ; Conflicts ; Farmers ; Pastoralists ; Communities ; Violence ; Social groups ; Politics ; State intervention / Sahel
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051216)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2022.2083601?needAccess=true
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051216.pdf
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The conflict over water and agricultural resources within the Sahel of Africa has led to the destruction of lives, property and nature for decades. The extant practice is to label these conflicts with multiple names and conceptualise them as single-issue events. This article illustrates this practice further and highlights some issues associated with such approaches. Existing terms for these conflicts in Africa’s Sahel region are primarily linked to people’s occupations and ethnic identities, distracting efforts to gain a deeper understanding. This view obscures the broad dimensions of these struggles among those competing for water and agricultural resources. Thus, this paper remedies the conceptual gaps by recommending ‘eco-violence’ as an umbrella term for these conflicts and foregrounding the emerging trends of eco-violence within the Sahel region. By referring to these conflicts as eco-violence, we can foster a more inclusive perspective that incorporates social and environmental injustices and political failures as factors related to these conflicts.
10 Chigusiwa, L.; Kembo, G.; Kairiza, T. 2023. Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe: does the burden fall on women and girls? Review of Development Economics, 27(1):178-197. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12944]
Drought ; Social aspects ; Conflicts ; Violence ; Women ; Vulnerability ; Households ; Water shortage ; Livelihoods ; Models ; Gender / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051878)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/rode.12944?download=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051878.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051878.pdf
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Climate change–induced extreme weather events such as drought have occurred with increasing frequency and intensity in Zimbabwe over the past 30 years bringing about pressure on communally owned water resources. Using the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee 2020 survey of rural households in Zimbabwe, this study assesses the impact of drought shock on the occurrence of water point violence. The impact of self-reported drought shock on the likelihood of occurrence of social conflict in the form of water point violence is subject to confounding due to selection bias. Using the doubly robust inverse probability weighted regression adjustment to account for confounding, we investigate gender dimensions of the impact of drought on inducing water point violence in rural Zimbabwe. The study offers three major findings. First, drought shock is associated with increased household propensity to experience water point violence. Second, the severity of the drought shock impact increases the probability of the household experiencing water point violence. Third, drought shock–induced water point violence is only statistically valid for households where the water-fetcher is a woman or girl. The results suggest that the impact of drought shocks on water point violence is gendered and disadvantages women and girls more than men and boys.
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