ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for the utility of bridging feminist political ecology with insights from intersectionality and environmental justice frameworks for contemporary analysis of macro projects like the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)'s US$8 billion water scheme. It aims to demonstrate how a feminist political ecology framework, sharpened by insights from environmental justice and intersectionality, can deepen the understanding of the lived complexities and questions of justice raised by large-scale water development. By engaging insights from the environmental justice literature and feminist theorizing on intersectionality within feminist political ecology's attention to political, cultural, and geographical contexts, the chapter attempts to show the value of conversing across these interdisciplinary fields and concepts. It demonstrates how employing a feminist political ecology approach to seeing large-scale development, such as the building of mega-dams, as environmental injustice opens up the possibility to render visible the lived experiences of people directly affected by the LHWP within a broader analysis of just development.
