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1 Leder, S.; Sugden, F.; Raut, Manita; Ray, D.; Saikia, P. 2019. Ambivalences of collective farming: feminist political ecologies from eastern India and Nepal. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1):105-129. (Special issue: Feminist Political Ecologies of the Commons and Commoning) [doi: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.917]
Collective farming ; Collective action ; Resource management ; Gender relations ; Women ; Political ecology ; Tenant farmers ; Land fragmentation ; Land management ; Commons ; Water management ; Dry season ; Social aspects ; Labour ; Case studies ; Villages / India / Nepal / Eastern Gangetic Plains / West Bengal / Madhubani / Cooch Behar / Alipurduar / Saptari
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Collective farming has been suggested as a potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transforming peasant agriculture. In collectives, farmers pool land, labor, irrigation infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we reflect on the extent to which collective farming enables marginalized groups to engage in smallholder agriculture. We examine the establishment of 18 farmer collectives by an action research project in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, a region characterised by fragmented and small landholdings and a high rate of marginalised and landless farmers. We analyze ambivalances of collective farming practices with regard to (1) social relations across scales, (2) intersectionality and (3) emotional attachment. Our results in Saptari/ Eastern Terai in Nepal, Madhubani/Bihar, and Cooch Behar/West Bengal in India demonstrate how intra-household, group and community relations and emotional attachments to the family and neighbors mediate the redistribution of labor, land, produce and capital. We find that unequal gender relations, intersected by class, age, ethnicity and caste, are reproduced in collective action, land tenure and water management, and argue that a critical feminist perspective can support a more reflective and relational understanding of collective farming processes. Our analysis demonstrates that feminist political ecology can complement commons studies by providing meaningful insights on ambivalences around approaches such as collective farming.
2 Clement, Floriane; Harcourt, W. J.; Joshi, Deepa; Sato, C. 2019. Feminist political ecologies of the commons and commoning. Editorial. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1):1-15. (Special issue: Feminist Political Ecologies of the Commons and Commoning) [doi: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.972]
Gender ; Women ; Political ecology ; Natural resources ; Commons ; Collective action ; Communities ; Economic aspects ; Environmental effects ; Social aspects
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3 Clement, Floriane; Harcourt, W. J.; Joshi, Deepa; Sato, C. (Eds.) 2019. Feminist political ecologies of the commons and commoning. International Journal of the Commons; International Journal of the Commons, 13(1):1-174. (Special issue with contributions by IWMI authors)
Political ecology ; Gender ; Women ; Natural resources management ; Commons ; Land management ; Reclamation ; Projects ; Water management ; Collective action ; Hydropower ; Common property ; Collective farming ; Irrigation programs ; Living standards ; Cooperatives ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Strategies ; Case studies / India / Nepal / Egypt / Mexico / Eastern Gangetic Plains / Nile Delta
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https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/35/volume/13/issue/1/
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4 Hirsch, P. 2020. Scaling the environmental commons: broadening our frame of reference for transboundary governance in Southeast Asia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(2):190-202. (Special issue: Governing the Transboundary Commons of Southeast Asia) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12253]
International waters ; Water governance ; International agreements ; International cooperation ; Environmental Impact Assessment ; Commons ; Hydropower ; Fisheries ; Political aspects ; Institutions ; ASEAN ; Living standards / South East Asia / Thailand / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Cambodia / Vietnam / Mekong River
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The transboundary environmental commons in Southeast Asia are normally conceived in terms of shared resources and environmental impacts that transcend national borders. The Mekong's ‘fugitive resources’ of water, fish and sediment and the issue of Indonesia's smoke haze drift into Malaysia and Singapore dominate discussion. Assumed national interests shape actors and institutional arrangements for transboundary commons governance. Failure to address the governance challenges is explained in terms of their politico-cultural failings (e.g. the ‘ASEAN Way’ of non-interference), the weak regulatory remit of agencies with a specific transboundary governance role (Mekong River Commission), the dominant developmental agenda of subregional cooperative arrangements (Greater Mekong Subregion) or the geopolitical dominance of China (Lancang–Mekong Cooperation). This article builds on these critiques by considering the relationship between the local commons impacted by transboundary projects and the framing of the commons at an inter-governmental level. It shows that neglect of the local commons and the impacts on them of projects with transboundary effects is partly to be explained by the institutional scaling of the transboundary commons at a country-to-country level. It also argues for an expanded notion of transboundary, including investment and governance flows as well as the material environmental footprint of large-scale investments.
5 van Koppen, Barbara. 2023. Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1):1-11. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1164]
Water tenure ; Customary tenure ; Gender analysis ; Women ; Men ; Legal pluralism ; Water resources ; Infrastructure ; Water sharing ; Commons / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051756)
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Customary water tenure in low-and middle-income rural areas has received limited academic, policy, and legal attention as yet. This paper seeks to conceptualize and analyse gender-differentiated living customary water tenure, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive literature review suggests four gendered domains: first, water needs and uses; second, strategies to meet those needs by directly accessing water sources, and, with increasing wealth by investing individually or collectively in water infrastructure for self-supply, creating infrastructure-related ‘commons’ in the case of collective systems; third, at community scale, the ‘sharing in’ of communities’ naturally available water resources that flow into infrastructure; and, fourth, ‘sharing out’ of those resources with neighbouring communities but also powerful third parties of foreign and national high impact users. Rendering the gendered community more visible as the main agent to manage its water resources as the commons provides evidence for a range of policies, laws and interventions, including gender equitable and community-led water infrastructure development integrating domestic and productive spheres; strengthening customary arrangements to share water resources as a commons within a community or with neighbouring communities, and the long overdue formal protection of customary water tenure against ‘water grabs’ by powerful third parties.
6 Mapedza, Everisto. 2023. Managing African commons in the context of Covid-19 challenges. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1):105-108. (Special issue: Managing African Commons in the Context of Covid-19 Challenges) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1268]
Commons ; Gender ; Climate change ; Forestry ; Co-management ; Water tenure ; Customary tenure ; Communities ; COVID-19 / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051881)
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7 Mapedza, Everisto. (Ed.) 2023. Managing African commons in the context of Covid-19 challenges. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1):1-108. (Special issue with contributions by IWMI authors)
Commons ; Gender ; Climate change adaptation ; Climate change mitigation ; Water tenure ; Customary tenure ; Agroforestry ; Co-management ; Institutions ; Women ; Water sharing ; Infrastructure ; Political aspects ; Governance ; Financing ; Communities ; Resilience ; Social aspects ; COVID-19 / Africa / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051882)
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