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Resources: Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

10 pages long

Languages: English

Resources: Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the Resources section of the special issue on 'Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Storm in a Water Pot

08/05/2025

4 pages long

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Water rights

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This deals with water rights and the water rights movement in rural India.

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Dalit Women and Land Rights in India

08/05/2025

6 pages long

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dalit women's land rights

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This essay deals with dalit women's land rights in India.

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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

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This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

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‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

08/05/2025

25 pages long

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‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism

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A group of Tukano Oriental Indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon undertook a research initiative implementing a biocultural monitoring methodology for the strengthening of the traditional management of their territory. The initial results revealed that, as the elders had anticipated, crops nurtured by the elders and, notably, by the wise women are the most diverse. […]

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Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

08/05/2025

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Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

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This essay draws from a larger study that explores gender and social inclusion in small-scale aquaculture in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, using a feminist political ecology (FPE) lens. Through qualitative research, we examine how fish farmers’ embodied experiences reveal the intersections of labour, emotional well-being, and food security within broader socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Hydropower […]

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Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

08/05/2025

28 pages long

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Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

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The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality. Women’s land rights lie at the heart of this struggle, with local practices of land management and dispute resolution frequently privileging men over women, conflicting with national statutes that promise […]

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Promoting youth advocacy for resilience to disasters: a pilot study

12/02/2025

23 pages long

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Promoting youth advocacy for resilience to disasters: a pilot study

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Through Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters (YARDs), we offer a case study of a middle-school science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) programme to engage youth in disaster resilience planning through mapmaking and advocacy. From 2021 to 2023, we designed and implemented a 14-session curriculum that empowers middle-school youth (ages 11–14) to advocate for […]

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

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December 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster: the toxic gas leak on 2–3 December 1984 from the US-owned Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Generations of people across the world have grown up with the story of the ‘Bhopal gas disaster’ and governments have passed laws to prevent such […]

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