Introduction

This book is the fruit of friendships and long-time collaborations that move across times and continents. We (the editors of the handbook) are women (a category that none of us innocently or easily inhabit) coming from Santander, in north-central Colombia; the lakes and rivers of Utrecht and the so-called ‘peat colonies of the North – both in the Netherlands; the mountains in Trento, northern Italy; and Maharashtra in India. We got to know each other through various feminist (action-)research projects on water and in the classroom while teaching a course on gender and water resources management.