Bridging the international political economy of water
Social Reproduction, Governance and Non-State Actors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6449166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gemma Gasseau (0000-0001-9768-3589, Scuola Normale Superiore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 871-886 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-2290 • E-ISSN: 1466-4526 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09692290.2025.2454918 |
| OpenAlex | W4406803420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
Water governance has recently gained increasing political and academic attention. However, in many of these debates, it is often narrowly understood as a set of institutional arrangements, rather than as a contested political terrain. I argue that an international political economy (IPE) of water enables scholars to conceptualize water governance not as a thing, but rather as a set of social relations: dynamic rather than static, political rather than technical, and contested rather than consensual. Moreover, I show that a feminist social reproduction approach reveals how the struggle over water is gendered and racialized, making an epistemic shift and contributing to tracing the connection between everyday life and global capitalism. Through the review of five books recently published, I map the emerging field of the IPE of water as a fertile research agenda, and I argue that it should be addressed with an approach that is critical, relational, and feminist. The review article develops its analytical tools by showing: the connection between the local, national, and transnational scales; the changing role of business; and the extension of social reproduction theory to the study of nature, uncovering the intertwined dynamics of exploitation and expropriation
Bridging (networking · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Economy · International political economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · State (computer science · Human Rights and Development · International Development and Aid · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Beyond Defeat and Austerity
Forces of Reproduction
Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance
Negotiating the public
Renewable energy and EU-led authoritarian neoliberalization
Women and the Politics of Water
Women, Equity and Participatory Water Management in Brazil
Watering Down Austerity
A time of reproductive unrest
The Evolution of Private Provision in Urban Drinking Water
Transnational Class Agency and European Governance
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction
Introduction – Social reproduction in international political economy
Re-scaling IPE
The political economy of the household
Political ecology 1
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Sanitation is political
Approaching the Internationalization of the State
Feminist Perspectives on the Internationalization of The State
Privatizing Social Reproduction
Commodification and ‘the commons
Social movements in times of austerity
Feminist everyday political economy
Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective
Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece
A critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |