Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Leder, S., van der Geest, K., Upadhyaya, R., Adhikari, Y., Büttner, M. (2024): “Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal” World Development 177. 106544.
Leder, S. (2024): “Translocal resource governance, social relations and aspirations: Linking translocality and feminist political ecology to explore farmer-managed irrigation systems and migration in Nepal”. Geoforum 148. 103905.
Leder, S. (2022): “Beyond the “Feminisation of Agriculture”: Rural out-migration, changing gender relations and emerging spaces in natural resource management” Journal of Rural Studies 91. 157-169.
Buisson, M.-C., Clement, F., Leder, S.: “Empowerment and the will to change: Evidence from Nepal.” Journal of Rural Studies 94: 128-139.
Gonda, N., Leder, S., González-Hidalgo, M., Chiwona- Karltun, L., Stiernström, A., Hajdu, F., Asztalos Morell, I. Fischer, K., Kadfak, A., Arvidsson, A. (2021): “Critical reflexivity in political ecology research: how can the coronavirus pandemic transform us into better researchers?” Special Issue: Political Ecologies of COVID-19 in Frontiers in Political Ecology 3 (41).
Nguyen, T., Leder, S., Schruefer, G. (2021): “Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives.” Environmental Education Research 27 (3). 313-337.
Sugden, F., Agarwal, B.; Leder, S.; Saikia, P.; Raut, M.; Kumar, A.; Ray, D. (2020): “Experiments in farmer collectives in eastern India and Nepal: process, benefits and challenges.” Journal of Agrarian Change 21 (1). 90-121.
Ravula, P., Kasala, K., Pramanik, S., Duche, V., Yadav, U., Whitbread, A., Singh, R., Garg, K., Leder, S. (2020): “Gender transformative impacts from watershed interventions: Insights from a mixed methods study in the Bundelkhand region, India.” Transactions of the ASABE 63 (1): 153-163.
Leder, S., Sugden, F., Raut, M., Saikia, P., Dhananjay, J. (2019): “Ambivalences of collective farming: feminist political ecologies from Eastern India and Nepal.” International Journal of the Commons 13 (1): 105-129.
Clement, F., Buisson, M., Leder, S., Balasoubramanya, S., Bastakoti, R., Karki, E., van Koppen, B., Saikia, P. (2019): “Does women’s empowerment lead to enhanced food security? Revisiting dominant food and water security discourses.” Global Food Security 23: 160-172.
Leder, S., Das, D., Shrestha, G. (2019): “Transformative engagements with gender relations in agriculture and water resource management.” New Angle – Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy 5 (1): 128-158.
Leder, S., Clement, F., Karki, E. (2017): “Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programs in Western Nepal” Gender and Development 25 (2): 235-251.
Leder, S., Bharucha, E. (2015): “Changing the Educational Landscape in India by Transnational Policies: New Perspectives Promoted through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)” ASIEN 134 (1): 167-192.
Chandramukhee, Leder, S. (2013): ”Dowry practices and gendered space in urban Patna/India” Gender Forum 42: 54-69.
Editor of Special Issues
Leder, S., Khatri, D., Ojha, H. (2019): “Water security and inclusive water governance in the Himalayas” New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy 5 (1): 1-6. Special issue with 6 research articles and 2 commentary papers. (contribution: shared work among three co-editors, about 33%).
Tavenner, K., Leder, S., Castellanos, P., David, S. (2023): “Innovations in Gender Research for Sustainable Food Systems” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Special Issue with 13 research articles.
Book
Leder, S. (2018): “Transformative Pedagogic Practice. Education for Sustainable Development and Water Conflicts in Indian Geography Education” Singapore: Springer Publisher. Education for Sustainability Book Series. 308 p. ISBN 9789811323683
Book Chapters
Leder, S., Shrestha, G., Upadhyaya, R., Adhikari, Y. (2021): COVID-19, gender and small-scale farming in Nepal. In: Castellanos, P., Sachs, C., Tickamyer, A.: Gender, Food, and COVID-19. Global Stories of Harm and Hope. New York: Routledge. 3-12.
Arora-Jonsson, S., Leder, S. (2020): “Gender mainstreaming in agricultural and forestry institutions” In: Sachs, C, Jensen, L., Sexsmith, K.: Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture. New York: Routledge. 15-31.
Pyburn, R., Kruijssen, F., Newton, J., Allen, P., Sexsmith, K., Ransom, E., Alston, M., Brandth, B., Arora-Jonsson, S., Southard, E., Jensen, L., Whitley, H., Mittal, S., Leder, S., Lope-Alzina, D., Ahern, M., Choudhury, A., Rajaratnam, S., Hoffelmeyer, M., Bryant, L. (2020): Epilogue: Gender, agriculture, and shifting food systems under coronavirus global pandemic. In: Sachs, C, Sexsmith, K., Jensen, L., Castellanos, P.: Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture. New York: Routledge. 435-452.
Leder, S., Sachs, C. (2019): “Intersectional Perspectives on the Gender- Agriculture Nexus. Relational life histories and additive indices” In: Sachs, C. (Ed.): Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations. Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. New York: Routledge. 75-92.
Leder, S. (2015): „Feldforschung, Dokumentenanalyse, und Aktionsforschung – Ein geographiedidaktisches Forschungsdesign für den internationalen Kontext” In: Budke, A., Kuckuck, M.: Geographiedidaktische Forschungsmethoden. Berlin: Praxis neue Kulturgeographie. Lit-Verlag. 269-291.
Leder, S. (2015): „Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung durch Argumentation im Geographieunterricht” In: Budke, A. et al.: Fachlich Argumentieren lernen. Münster: Waxmann. 138- 150.
Leder, S. (2014): „Barrieren und Möglichkeiten einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in Indien” In: Hemmer, I., Müller, M. & Trappe, M. (Hrsg.): Nachhaltigkeit neu denken. Rio + X. Impulse für Bildung und Wissenschaft. München: Oekom-Verlag. 195-201.
Research Reports
Schmidt E., Sugden, F., Scobie, M., Mainuddin, M., Leder, S., Mishra, R. Thapa, B., Bastakoti, R., da Silva, S. (2019): “Improving water use for dry season agriculture by marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Final Report.” Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. 114 p.
Schmidt E., Sugden, F., Scobie, M., Mainuddin, M., Leder, S., Mishra, R. Thapa, B., Bastakoti, R., da Silva, S. (2019): “Improving water use for dry season agriculture by marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains addressing constraints of irrigated agriculture by women and marginal farmers.” Project Summary. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. 20 p.
Leder, S. (2019): “Gender relations in irrigation and collective farming.” Chapter of the Final Report of the Project Dry-season irrigation for marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Australian Center of International Agricultural Research. 8 p.
de Silva, S., Leder, S. (2017): “Agricultural innovations for water security in North West Bangladesh from institutional, gender, food and livelihood security perspectives. Groundwater irrigation technology adoption in Rangpur and Thakurgaon Districts” IWMI Project Report. 72 p.
Leder, S. (2017): “Gender norms and relations in an agricultural watershed project in Jhansi, India.” A qualitative gender study of the ICRISAT-CAFRI project ‘Enhancing groundwater recharge and water use efficiency in SAT region through watershed interventions in Parasai-Sindh’ funded by the Coca-Cola India Foundation for Rural Water Infrastructure. WLE-IWMI Project report. 39 p.
Leder, S. (2016): “Linking Women’s Empowerment and their Resilience. Literature Review” BRACED/CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 27 p.
Leder, S. (2015): “Gendered Access to Water within the Feminisation of Agriculture”. IWMI Project Report for ‘Dry-season irrigation for marginal and tenant farmers’, Canberra: Australian Center of International Agricultural Research. 39 p.
Conference Papers (published)
Leder, S. (2017): “Farmer collectives and shifting gender relations in the Eastern Gangetic Plains” International Association for the Studies of the Commons (IASC). Digital Library of the Commons. 35 S.
Leder, S. (2017): „Auswirkungen der Emigration auf die landwirtschaftliche Strukturen in der östlichen Gangesebene” Südasien 5: 22-25.
Leder, S. (2014): „Das indische Bildungssystem im Wandel: Zwischen traditionellen Unterrichtspraktiken und dem Anspruch einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung” Südasien 2: 18-21.
Book Reviews
Leder, S. (2017): “Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India” South Asian Water Studies – SAWAS Journal. Special Issue on Water Justice, Gender and Disability 6(1): 59- 62.
Leder, S. (2015): “Uncovering schooling ideals and student culture: the case of India” Book Review of Thapan, Meenakshi (Ed.): Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India. Books and Ideas.net
Theses
Leder, S. (2016): “Pedagogic practice and the transformative potential of Education for Sustainable Development. Argumentation on water conflicts in geography teaching in Pune/India” PhD thesis, 344 pages. Universität zu Köln. KUPS - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer.
Leder, S. (2010): „Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung für Kinder in Mumbai/Indien” Examensarbeit, Universität zu Köln. KUPS - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer.