{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7161237720","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","title":"Feminist Political Ecology ( FPE ) Research on Irrigation: A Systematic Literature Review","display_name":"Feminist Political Ecology ( FPE ) Research on Irrigation: A Systematic Literature Review","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-05-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7161237720","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1002/wat2.70073","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764490608","display_name":"Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water","issn_l":"2049-1948","issn":["2049-1948"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","jufo-1","norway-1","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320595","host_organization_name":"Wiley","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320595"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Wiley"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"WIREs Water","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"review","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"hybrid","oa_url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5050051200","display_name":"Stephanie Leder","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1499-6606","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1499-6606"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I298625061","display_name":"Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/02yy8x990","country_code":"SE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I298625061"]}],"countries":["SE"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Stephanie Leder\u2010B\u00fcttner","raw_affiliation_strings":["Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)  Uppsala Sweden"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1499-6606","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)  Uppsala Sweden","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I298625061"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5019506113","display_name":"Floriane Cl\u00e9ment","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-222X","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-222X"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210088668","display_name":"Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement","ror":"https://ror.org/003vg9w96","country_code":"FR","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210088668"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Floriane Clement","raw_affiliation_strings":["INRAE  Castanet\u2010Tolosan France"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-222X","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"INRAE  Castanet\u2010Tolosan France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210088668"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5009430875","display_name":"Gitta Shrestha","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2428-0954","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2428-0954"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I298625061","display_name":"Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences","ror":"https://ror.org/02yy8x990","country_code":"SE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I298625061"]}],"countries":["SE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Gitta Shrestha","raw_affiliation_strings":["Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)  Uppsala Sweden"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2428-0954","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)  Uppsala Sweden","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I298625061"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5050051200"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I298625061"],"apc_list":{"value":4200,"currency":"USD","value_usd":4200},"apc_paid":{"value":4200,"currency":"USD","value_usd":4200},"fwci":2.3657,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":1,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.90105263,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":91,"max":95},"biblio":{"volume":"13","issue":"3","first_page":"18 p.","last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12248","display_name":"Water Governance and Infrastructure","score":0.9609000086784363,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12248","display_name":"Water Governance and Infrastructure","score":0.9609000086784363,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14284","display_name":"Environmental Movements and Political Ecology","score":0.025800000876188278,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13783","display_name":"Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality","score":0.0052999998442828655,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feminist-political-ecology","display_name":"feminist political ecology","score":0.9959999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/irrigation","display_name":"irrigation","score":0.8040000200271606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/power-relations","display_name":"power relations","score":0.746999979019165},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/social-inequities","display_name":"social inequities","score":0.7310000061988831},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/gendered-vulnerability","display_name":"gender vulnerability","score":0.6340000033378601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/intersectionality","display_name":"intersectionality","score":0.8659999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/water-governance","display_name":"water governance","score":0.5460000038146973},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/embodied-labour","display_name":"embodied labour","score":0.5440000295639038},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/care","display_name":"care","score":0.5320000052452087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decolonial-approaches","display_name":"decolonial approaches","score":0.6190000176429749},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/self-reflexivity","display_name":"self-reflexivity","score":0.7990000247955322},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/land-tenure","display_name":"land tenure","score":0.5019999742507935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/marginalized-communities","display_name":"marginalized communities","score":0.5699999928474426}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C59785166","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1554076","display_name":"Political ecology","level":3,"score":0.7353000044822693},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.5713000297546387},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C66204764","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219416","display_name":"Sustainability","level":2,"score":0.5458999872207642},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39389867","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380767","display_name":"Corporate governance","level":2,"score":0.5386999845504761},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780001913","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1516555","display_name":"Intersectionality","level":2,"score":0.46720001101493835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.44609999656677246},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C163258240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25342","display_name":"Power (physics)","level":2,"score":0.44449999928474426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C189708586","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1504425","display_name":"Systematic review","level":3,"score":0.4339999854564667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C118084267","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26110","display_name":"Positive economics","level":1,"score":0.374099999666214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777682447","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3039637","display_name":"Environmental governance","level":3,"score":0.374099999666214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C160515943","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q651571","display_name":"Development studies","level":2,"score":0.36149999499320984},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18903297","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7150","display_name":"Ecology","level":1,"score":0.3605000078678131},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C34355311","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166542","display_name":"International relations","level":3,"score":0.34850001335144043},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.3425000011920929},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C67469775","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304922","display_name":"Social dynamics","level":2,"score":0.30649998784065247},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C100609095","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1335050","display_name":"Embodied cognition","level":2,"score":0.29109999537467957},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C83729063","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12055115","display_name":"Common-pool resource","level":2,"score":0.2858000099658966},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781463953","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56599065","display_name":"Social ecology","level":2,"score":0.28380000591278076},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.2727999985218048},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C123108692","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49773","display_name":"Social movement","level":3,"score":0.2718000113964081},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C178895491","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211606","display_name":"Social structure","level":3,"score":0.27070000767707825},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138921699","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47555","display_name":"Political economy","level":1,"score":0.26899999380111694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C47318914","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295872","display_name":"Ecological systems theory","level":2,"score":0.2551000118255615},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C130064352","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q853725","display_name":"Social relation","level":2,"score":0.25119999051094055}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1002/wat2.70073","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764490608","display_name":"Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water","issn_l":"2049-1948","issn":["2049-1948"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","jufo-1","norway-1","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320595","host_organization_name":"Wiley","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320595"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Wiley"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"WIREs Water","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:HAL:hal-05766926v1","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://hal.science/hal-05766926","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402512","display_name":"HAL","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4405252976","host_organization_name":"Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4405252976"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.70073","raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1002/wat2.70073","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70073","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764490608","display_name":"Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water","issn_l":"2049-1948","issn":["2049-1948"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","jufo-1","norway-1","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320595","host_organization_name":"Wiley","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320595"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Wiley"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"WIREs Water","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.6618000268936157,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/6","display_name":"Clean water and sanitation"},{"score":0.6025999784469604,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/5","display_name":"Gender equality"},{"score":0.5676000118255615,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10","display_name":"Reduced inequalities"}],"study_designs":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/study-designs/systematic-review","display_name":"Systematic Review"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2959570192","display_name":"The Future of Agrarian Mountain Livelihoods (FAML): Youth Aspirations and Irrigation Modernisation in Nepal","funder_award_id":"2023-00646","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321033","funder_display_name":"Svenska Forskningsr\u00e5det Formas"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8372378856","display_name":"Revitalizing community-managed irrigation systems in the context of out-migration in Nepal","funder_award_id":"2018-00574","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321033","funder_display_name":"Svenska Forskningsr\u00e5det Formas"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321033","display_name":"Svenska Forskningsr\u00e5det Formas","ror":"https://ror.org/03pjs1y45"}],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":76,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1507158732","https://openalex.org/W1592670099","https://openalex.org/W1619927279","https://openalex.org/W1978728935","https://openalex.org/W1983168376","https://openalex.org/W2024572255","https://openalex.org/W2032333460","https://openalex.org/W2059322600","https://openalex.org/W2066317585","https://openalex.org/W2077663087","https://openalex.org/W2086037283","https://openalex.org/W2098227676","https://openalex.org/W2107314945","https://openalex.org/W2126145772","https://openalex.org/W2127018094","https://openalex.org/W2133170846","https://openalex.org/W2146214324","https://openalex.org/W2158493303","https://openalex.org/W2166875245","https://openalex.org/W2301695562","https://openalex.org/W2319759779","https://openalex.org/W2339937137","https://openalex.org/W2570038775","https://openalex.org/W2592236617","https://openalex.org/W2735973141","https://openalex.org/W2736060121","https://openalex.org/W2744394419","https://openalex.org/W2787719440","https://openalex.org/W2794093688","https://openalex.org/W2810426244","https://openalex.org/W2891095779","https://openalex.org/W2942640482","https://openalex.org/W2943821049","https://openalex.org/W2945494434","https://openalex.org/W2947543046","https://openalex.org/W2975852281","https://openalex.org/W3009569347","https://openalex.org/W3017028623","https://openalex.org/W3022469857","https://openalex.org/W3033293109","https://openalex.org/W3037628575","https://openalex.org/W3082601967","https://openalex.org/W3092150633","https://openalex.org/W3094910662","https://openalex.org/W3118615836","https://openalex.org/W3126344641","https://openalex.org/W3127419794","https://openalex.org/W3170955282","https://openalex.org/W3199092563","https://openalex.org/W4220831076","https://openalex.org/W4223505033","https://openalex.org/W4233406180","https://openalex.org/W4233705587","https://openalex.org/W4280650123","https://openalex.org/W4281638009","https://openalex.org/W4282943931","https://openalex.org/W4283590512","https://openalex.org/W4284888724","https://openalex.org/W4285386038","https://openalex.org/W4292200365","https://openalex.org/W4297024910","https://openalex.org/W4300817956","https://openalex.org/W4309030312","https://openalex.org/W4313432647","https://openalex.org/W4317936422","https://openalex.org/W4318026171","https://openalex.org/W4386023759","https://openalex.org/W4386167611","https://openalex.org/W4390122889","https://openalex.org/W4390614695","https://openalex.org/W4391554814","https://openalex.org/W4392404570","https://openalex.org/W4400651880","https://openalex.org/W4400651939","https://openalex.org/W4401786303","https://openalex.org/W4413049794"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4400404525","https://openalex.org/W2146214324","https://openalex.org/W7001272106","https://openalex.org/W1504943671","https://openalex.org/W605951151","https://openalex.org/W2086037283","https://openalex.org/W4400651939","https://openalex.org/W3209623293","https://openalex.org/W3206135307","https://openalex.org/W224221281"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"ABSTRACT":[0],"Irrigation":[1],"systems":[2,5],"are":[3],"socio\u2010technical":[4],"whose":[6],"sustainability":[7],"depends":[8],"on":[9,55,69,81,164,215],"social":[10,47,105,128,184],"relations":[11,103,163],"and":[12,21,30,48,51,58,77,83,89,104,112,127,135,148,151,161,167,169,182,199,209,222,236,238,247],"governance":[13],"systems.":[14,188],"However,":[15],"most":[16],"of":[17,46,66,158,197,233,244],"the":[18,136,194,239,242],"irrigation":[19,56,86,165,187],"sector":[20],"research":[22,57,68,80,228],"has":[23],"largely":[24],"been":[25],"guided":[26],"by":[27],"apolitical,":[28],"masculine,":[29],"technical":[31],"discourses.":[32],"We":[33,60,95,189,224],"argue":[34],"that":[35,121,226],"a":[36,62,124,191,211,216],"feminist":[37],"political":[38,49],"ecology":[39],"(FPE)":[40],"approach":[41,130,218],"could":[42],"support":[43],"in\u2010depth":[44],"analyses":[45],"dynamics":[50],"provide":[52],"original":[53],"perspectives":[54],"practice.":[59,203],"conducted":[61],"systematic":[63],"literature":[64],"review":[65,119],"FPE":[67,73,93,98,122,140,198,207],"irrigation,":[70,82,108,155],"examining":[71],"how":[72,85],"is":[74,87,253],"defined,":[75],"framed,":[76],"applied":[78],"to":[79,100,131,219,265],"conversely":[84],"defined":[88],"analyzed":[90],"through":[91],"an":[92],"lens.":[94],"identify":[96],"12":[97],"themes":[99],"study":[101],"power":[102,249],"inequities":[106],"in":[107,186,202],"resources,":[109],"labor,":[110],"land,":[111],"tenure":[113],"struggles":[114,153],"across":[115],"21":[116],"studies.":[117],"Our":[118],"shows":[120],"provides":[123],"multi\u2010scalar,":[125],"politicized,":[126],"justice\u2010oriented":[129],"differentiated":[132],"access":[133,166],"to,":[134],"impacts":[137],"of,":[138],"irrigation.":[139],"studies":[141,205,213],"bring":[142],"fresh":[143],"insights":[144],"into:":[145],"(i)":[146],"embodied":[147],"emotional":[149],"labor":[150],"everyday":[152],"over":[154],"(ii)":[156],"effects":[157],"household,":[159],"care,":[160,237],"community":[162],"control,":[168],"(iii)":[170],"often":[171],"overlooked":[172],"topics":[173],"such":[174],"as":[175],"water":[176,245],"infrastructural":[177],"violence,":[178],"gendered":[179],"vulnerability,":[180],"intersectionality,":[181],"marginalized":[183],"groups":[185],"note":[190],"gap":[192],"between":[193,241],"theoretical":[195],"potential":[196],"its":[200],"application":[201],"Some":[204],"apply":[206],"apolitically,":[208],"only":[210],"few":[212],"reflect":[214],"decolonial":[217],"science,":[220],"self\u2010reflexivity,":[221],"positionality.":[223],"recommend":[225],"future":[227],"engage":[229],"more":[230],"with":[231],"concepts":[232],"body/embodiment,":[234],"emotions,":[235],"link":[240],"fluidity":[243],"resources":[246],"dynamic":[248],"relations.":[250],"This":[251],"article":[252],"categorized":[254],"under:":[255],"Human":[256,261],"Water":[257,259,262,266,268,271],">":[258,263,269],"Governance":[260],"Rights":[264],"Engineering":[267],"Planning":[270]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-25T09:29:13.331239","created_date":"2026-05-16T00:00:00"}
