Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink: Pani politics (water politics) in rural Bangladesh

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 494-502

  Sultana, Farhana ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Gender; Public health; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949097186     PISSN: 14616742     EISSN: 14684470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616740701607994     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Agarwal, B. 1992. 'The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India', Feminist Studies 18 (1): 119-59.
2. Ahmed, M. F. and Ahmed, C. M. 2002. Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh. An Outcome of the International Workshop on Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh, 14-16 January. Local Government Division, Ministry of LGRD and Cooperatives, Government of Bangladesh.
3. Ahmed, M. F. , Shamsuddin, S. A. J. , Mahmud, S. G. , Rashid, H. , Deere, D. and Howard, G. 2005. Risk Assessment of Arsenic Mitigation Options (RAAMO). Report produced by Arsenic Policy Support Unit, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, Government of Bangladesh.
4. Alam, M. G. M. , Westbrooke, M. , Allinson, G. , Stagnitti, F. and Tanaka, A. 2002. 'Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh Groundwater: A Major Environmental and Social Disaster', International Journal of Environmental Health Research 12 (3): 236-53.
5. Atkins P. J. , Hassan, M. M. and Dunn, C. E. 2006. 'Toxic Torts: Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh and the Legal Geographies of Responsibility', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31 (3): 272-85.
6. Caldwell, B. K. , Caldwell, J. C. , Mitra, S. N. and Smith, W. 2003. 'Tubewells and Arsenic in Bangladesh: Challenging a Public Health Success Story', International Journal of Population Geography 9 (1): 23-38.
7. Cleaver, F. 2000. 'Analysing Gender Roles in Community Natural Resource Management: Negotiation, Lifecourses and Social inclusion', IDS Bulletin 31 (2): 60-7.
8. Crow, B. and Sultana, F. 2002. 'Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta', Society and Natural Resources 15 (8): 709-24.
9. Hanchett, S. 2004. 'Social Aspects of the Arsenic Contamination of Drinking water: A Review of Knowledge and Practice in Bangladesh and West Bengal', report presented to the Arsenic Policy Support Unit, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, Government of Bangladesh, July.
10. Jackson, C. 1993, 'Doing What Comes Naturally? Women and Environment in Development', World Development 21 (12): 1947-63.
11. Jordans, E. and Zwarteveen, M. 1997. A Well of One's Own: Gender Analysis of an Irrigation Program in Bangladesh. Colombo: Grameen Krishi Foundation and International Irrigation Management Institute.
12. Kabeer, N. 1994. Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. London: Verso.
13. Marchand, M. and Parpart, J. 1995. Feminism/Postmodernism/Development. New York: Routledge.
14. Meinzen-Dick, R. and Zwarteveen, M. 1998. 'Gendered Participation in Water Management: Issues and Illustrations from Water Users' Associations in South Asia', Agriculture and Human Values 15 (2): 337-45.
15. Mohanty, C. 1991. 'Introduction: Cartographies of Struggle', in Mohanty, C. T. , Russo, A. and Torres, L. (eds) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, pp. 1-47. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
16. Rocheleau, D. , Thomas-Slayer, B. and Wangari, E. 1996. Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. New York: Routledge.
17. Smith, A. H. , Lingas, E. O. and Rahman, M. 2000. 'Contamination of Drinking-Water by Arsenic in Bangladesh: A Public Health Emergency', Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78 (9): 1093-103.
18. Sultana, F. 2006. 'Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh', in Lahiri-Dutt, K. (ed. ) Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water, pp. 362-85. Calcutta: Stree Publishers.
19. Sultana, F. 2007. 'Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Political Ecologies of Arsenic, Water and Development in Bangladesh', PhD dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.