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<p>Lieber AK, <br>
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<p>ich möchte euch herzlich zu meiner "Associate Professor Lecture" am 13. März um 14.30 via zoom einladen, da ich mir vorstellen kann, das die/den ein oder andere/n das Thema interessiert:
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<div><em>Translocal water governance in the face of global change: <br>
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<div><em>the role of gender and social relations in sustaining collective irrigation systems</em></div>
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<div>Hier ist der zoom link: <a href="https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/63365273066" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_external-link">
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<p>Password: 755762</p>
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<p>Ein Link mit einer Zusammenfassung (siehe auch unten) und mehr Informationen gibt es hier:
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<p><a href="https://www.slu.se/en/ew-calendar/2023/3/nj-docentforelasningar-13-mars-eng/?fbclid=IwAR2Hy6Xl-obJ1nxfTnJvCxbMBvxZlDv8terOjFvwRiiRteFtSs1MdvJqX-U" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink">https://www.slu.se/en/ew-calendar/2023/3/nj-docentforelasningar-13-mars-eng/?fbclid=IwAR2Hy6Xl-obJ1nxfTnJvCxbMBvxZlDv8terOjFvwRiiRteFtSs1MdvJqX-U</a><br>
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<div>Gern könnt ihr die Einladung an weitere Interessierte weiterleiten, da dies eine öffentliche Vorlesung ist.
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<div>Viele Grüsse,</div>
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<div>Stephanie Leder<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"">Translocal water governance in the face of global
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"" lang="EN-US">change: the role of gender and social relations in sustaining collective irrigation systems</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Associate Professor (Docent) Lecture, March 13<sup>th</sup>, 2023, 2.30 pm</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Stephanie Leder,
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences</span></p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB">Rural out-migration changes agrarian political economies worldwide. However, the linkages between rural out-migration and natural resource governance and
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">the important mediating role of gender and social relations</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> are underexplored.</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The aim of this lecture is to investigate the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems with a particular focus on social, gender and labor relations.
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Irrigation systems, crucial for the food security of many populations in rural areas of the developing world, require sustained collective action. Widespread male out-migration
presents major challenges for maintaining irrigation systems. Existing scholarship suggests that changes in household structure and labor relations may also provide new opportunities for increased involvement of women, youths, and other marginalised groups
in the governance of important resources, but the conditions under which this could occur remain unknown.
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB">Through a study of farmer-managed irrigation systems in Nepal, I ask:<i style="">
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<i style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">(1) How are farmer-managed irrigation systems changing as a result of male out-migration?
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">(2) How do changing household structure and labor relations open up possibilities for marginalised groups to engage with collective irrigation governance?</span></i></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">By developing a synthesis of theory on translocality and feminist political ecology</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">,
</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">I employ a mixed methods approach to study how rapid agrarian and social transformations are altering existing forms of collective action.
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<span style="" lang="EN-US">Results of my study in Western Nepal show that 60.7% of all households had at least one migrant in the past five years, of which 83% were male. However, collective labor in irrigation systems is not affected by migration as absent
men’s labor contributions are mediated at the household unit, involving increasingly women who sustain irrigation systems. Participation in a water user group or irrigation committee is significantly higher when there has been a migrant in the household in
the past five years. While most households stated to have decreased their crop production, migrant households did not report more often a decrease in crop production than non-migrant households.
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<span style="" lang="EN-US">These results challenge widespread assumptions of degenerating irrigation systems, the loss of labor and narratives on “deagrarianisation” and the “feminization of agriculture”.
</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">With this analysis, I expand current studies on migration effects on rural societies which have focused primarily on
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">measurable </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">demographic and economic changes.
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">I </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">open up debates on the role of gender and
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">social </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">relations in translocal water
</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">resource </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">governance and suggest that agriculture and irrigation policies and programs address women as key actors in the agriculture and irrigation sector.</span></p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB">My research seeks to identify practices through which a greater engagement of marginal groups can help to revitalize collective natural resource management. Such bottom-up processes of change could be a vital part of a long-term
transition towards more equal access to resources and improved food security in rural households of the Global South.</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Stephanie Leder</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN-US">Researcher</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN-US">Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN-US">Department of Urban and Rural Development</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US">New Publication:
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US">Leder, S. (2022): “Beyond the “Feminisation of Agriculture”: Rural out-migration, changing gender relations and emerging spaces in natural resource management”
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016722000316" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563C1" lang="EN-GB">Journal of Rural Studies</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-GB">
91. 157-169.</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US">Staff page:</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="SV"><a href="https://www.slu.se/cv/stephanie-leder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563C1" lang="EN-US">https://www.slu.se/cv/stephanie-leder/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US">Ongoing Research Project:
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.slu.se/en/departments/urban-rural-development/research/rural-development/ongoing-projects/revitalizing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563C1">Revitalizing
community-managed irrigation systems in contexts of out-migration in Nepal</span></a>
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<p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephanie_Leder" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephanie_Leder</span></a></span></p>
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