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- Title
Rethinking water insecurity, inequality and infrastructure through an embodied urban political ecology.
- Authors
Truelove, Yaffa
- Abstract
In recent years, emerging scholarship has advanced embodied approaches to urban water in/security, inequality and infrastructure. This new literature is broadly informed by political ecology studies of water, which critique depoliticized approaches to water scarcity, insecurity and inequality and give attention to the socially differentiated experiences of the urban waterscape. Recent interventions to bring feminist and embodied approaches to water's urban political ecology analyze the site and scale of the body as critical for understanding everyday urban water access and inequality. Drawing from these frameworks, I summarize three contributions of an embodied urban political ecology approach for addressing water in/security. These include analytical approaches that give attention to (1) the scale of the body within multi‐scalar approaches to water, (2) intersectionality and gender/class/race/ethno‐religious relations in shaping patterns of water inequality and insecurity, and (3) everyday practices and politics, in relation to both governance and citizens, which reveal under‐theorized dimensions of water insecurity and inequality. Embodied approaches to urban water insecurity are poised to expand and deepen work on the everyday politics and lived experiences of insufficient, insecure, and unequal water that profoundly shape urban life for city‐dwellers. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning WaterHuman Water > Water GovernanceHuman Water > Rights to Water Embodied approaches to urban water in/security bring attention to the body as a critical site and scale of analysis, pushing academic and policy work to go beyond quantity/quality approaches to water to examine the ways water insecurity is tied to a host of additional inequities and vulnerabilities.
- Subjects
POLITICAL ecology; MUNICIPAL water supply; WATER quality; EQUALITY; FEMININITY
- Publication
WIRES Water, 2019, Vol 6, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2049-1948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wat2.1342