ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Nearly 25 years after the first studies people might recognize as feminist political ecology(FPE) began to appear, this volume shows people the ways that the key aspects those related to feminism, politics, and ecology are being pushed in novel and insightful directions. It moves to push what people mean by feminism towards more intersectional approaches, as well as analyses that also emphasize decoloniality, postcoloniality, and challenges to Eurocentric knowledges. Connecting to politics more broadly, and highlighting diverse activisms in evidence, it is also with the understandings offered by FPE that it becomes more possible to understand why women are at the forefront of water-related activism. The issue of access to knowledge and information is one that has long occupied feminists, and people see creative and effective responses to this challenge in ways that might extend and open up the debate on key socio-ecological challenges.
