This article links feminist political ecology with the academic debate about commoning by focusing on the gendered distribution of common pool resources, in particular land and water. The research is set in the context of a coastal land reclamation project in Egypt’s Nile Delta, in a region where conflicts over resources such as arable land and fresh water are intensifying. Drawing on recent literature on commoning, we analyse the conditions under which different groups of resource users are constrained or enabled to act together. The article presents three case studies of women who represent different groups using land and water resources along the same irrigation canal. Through the concepts of intersectionality, performativity, and gendered subjectivity, this article explores how these women negotiate access to land and water resources to sustain viable livelihoods. The case studies unpack how the intersection of gender, class, culture, and place produces gendered subject positions in everyday resource access, and how this intersectionality either facilitates or constrains commoning. We argue that commoning practices are culturally and spatially specific and shaped by pre-existing resource access. Such access is often unequally structured along categories of class and gender in land reclamation and irrigation projects.

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土地开垦项目中妇女的生活：埃及土地和水管理中的性别，阶级，文化和地方

本文将女性主义的政治生态学与关于平民化的学术辩论联系在一起，其关注点在于共同池资源（尤其是土地和水）的性别分布。这项研究是在埃及尼罗河三角洲的一个沿海土地开垦项目的背景下进行的，该地区的耕地和淡水等资源冲突正在加剧。利用有关通用的最新文献，我们分析了在哪些条件下不同组的资源用户受到约束或能够共同行动。本文介绍了三个案例研究，这些妇女代表了不同群体的妇女，他们沿着同一条灌溉渠使用土地和水资源。通过交叉性，性能和性别主观性的概念，本文探讨了这些妇女如何通过谈判获取土地和水资源以维持可行的生计。案例研究揭示了性别，阶级，文化和地方的交汇点如何在日常资源访问中产生性别主题的位置，以及这种交汇点如何促进或限制共通性。我们认为，常见做法在文化和空间上是特定的，并且是由预先存在的资源访问形成的。在土地开垦和灌溉项目中，此类访问权通常在阶级和性别类别之间分布不均。我们认为，常见做法在文化和空间上是特定的，并且是由预先存在的资源访问形成的。在土地开垦和灌溉项目中，此类访问权通常在阶级和性别类别之间构成不平等。我们认为，常见做法在文化和空间上是特定的，并且是由预先存在的资源访问形成的。在土地开垦和灌溉项目中，此类访问权通常在阶级和性别类别之间构成不平等。