Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security

Harrington, Cameron; Montana, Phellecitus; Schmidt, Jeremy J.; Swain, Ashok

Abstract

This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on race or ethnicity. This is deeply concerning, because it indicates that race and ethnicity—crucial factors that affect the provision of safe, reliable water—continue to be ignored in academic and policy literatures. In response to this finding the Forum calls for building intersectional water security frameworks that recognize how empirical drivers of social and environmental inequality vary both within and across groups. Intersectional frameworks of water security can retain policy focus on the key material concerns regarding access, safety, and the distribution of water-related risks. They can also explicitly incorporate issues of race and ethnicity alongside other vectors of inequality to address key, overlooked concerns of water security.

Citation

Harrington, C., Montana, P., Schmidt, J. J., & Swain, A. (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security. Global Environmental Politics, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Mar 17, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Journal: Global Environmental Politics
• Print ISSN: 1526-3800
• Electronic ISSN: 1536-0091
• Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-10
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00702
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1176192