Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Brouwer, L.-M., Steel, G., Liebrand, J., & Zoomers, A. (2024). Agri-businesswomen in Kenya: Personal networks as gendered spaces in women's entrepreneurship. In H. Neergaard, M. Guerrero, & B. Kenny (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: Theory and Practice (pp. 319-348). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747669-013
Liebrand, J. (2024). Making engineers tell their stories? Masculinity, whiteness and heteronormativity "at work" in life history interviews in irrigation in Nepal. In Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance (pp. 30-45). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100379-4
2023
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J., Veldwisch, G. J., de Santos Herranz, V., Schepers, N., & Beekman, W. (2023). The ‘Farmer Lens’: A Gender Blinder? Considering Farmer Diversity in Research and Policy on African Farmer-led Irrigation Development. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), 431-446. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1291
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/435005/65798f795c71b.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/435005/65798f795c71b.pdf?sequence=1
Liebrand, J. (2023). Why so few expert women in the water sector? Masculinity, race, sex, and policy narratives of technology, gender and development in Nepal. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 5, 1-15. Article 1207941. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1207941
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432696/Liebrand_2023_Why_so_few_expert_women_in_the_water_sector_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432696/Liebrand_2023_Why_so_few_expert_women_in_the_water_sector_.pdf?sequence=1
Hoogesteger, J., Suhardiman, D., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., Duarte-Abadia, B., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., Liebrand, J., Hernandez-Mora, N., Manorom, K., Veldwisch, G. J., & Vos, J. (2023). River commoning and the state: A cross-country analysis of river defense collectives . Politics and Governance, 11(2), 280-292. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i2.6316
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434170/PaG_11_2_-_River_Commoning_and_the_State_A_Cross-Country_Analysis_of_River_Defense_Collectives.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434170/PaG_11_2_-_River_Commoning_and_the_State_A_Cross-Country_Analysis_of_River_Defense_Collectives.pdf?sequence=1
Brouwer, L.-M., Steel, G., & Liebrand, J. (2023). Inclusive agri-business models, gender, and Kenyans' experiences in successful entrepreneurship. European Journal of Development Studies, 3(3), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejdevelop.2023.3.3.263
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432234/ejdevelop_263.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/432234/ejdevelop_263.pdf?sequence=1
Liebrand, J. (2023). Book Review: Misreading the Bengal delta: Climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(4), 1668-1672 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2100586
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431003/Misreading_the_Bengal_delta_climate_change_development_and_livelihoods_in_coastal_Bangladesh.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431003/Misreading_the_Bengal_delta_climate_change_development_and_livelihoods_in_coastal_Bangladesh.pdf?sequence=1
2022
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J. (2022). Whiteness in Engineering: Tracing technology, masculinity and race in Nepal's development . Social Science Baha and Himal Books.
2021
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J., Beekman, W., de Bont, C., & Veldwisch, G. J. (2021). Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa. In A. Zoomers, M. Leung, K. Otsuki, & G. van Westen (Eds.), Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities (pp. 90-107). Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019
Scholarly publications
de Bont, C., Liebrand, J., Veldwisch, G. J., & Woodhouse, P. (2019). Modernisation and African farmer-led irrigation development: Ideology, policies and practices. Water Alternatives, 12(1), 107-128.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/379756/debont.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/379756/debont.pdf?sequence=1
Liebrand, J. (2019). The politics of research on farmer-managed irrigation systems in Asia: Some reflections for Africa. Water Alternatives, 12(1), 129-145. https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-politics-of-research-on-farmer-managed-irrigation-systems-in-
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378193/The_Politics.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378193/The_Politics.pdf?sequence=1
2018
Scholarly publications
Resurrección, B. P., Gurung Goodrich, C., Song, Y., Bastola, A., Prakash, A., Joshi, D., Liebrand, J., & Ashraf Shah, S. (2018). In the Shadows of the Himalayan Mountains: Persistent Gender and Social Exclusion in Development. In P. Wester, A. Mishra, A. Mukherji, & A. B. Shrestha (Eds.), The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People (pp. 491-516). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_14
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376891/Resurrecci_n_et_al_2018_Chapter_InTheShadowsOfTheHimalayanMountians_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376891/Resurrecci_n_et_al_2018_Chapter_InTheShadowsOfTheHimalayanMountians_.pdf?sequence=1
Shah, E., Liebrand, J., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., & Boelens, R. (2018). The UN Water and Development Report 2016 “Water and Jobs”: A critical review. Development and Change, 49(2), 678-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12395
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/371767/Shah_et_al_2018_UN_Water_Development_Report_Critical_Review_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/371767/Shah_et_al_2018_UN_Water_Development_Report_Critical_Review_.pdf?sequence=1
2017
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J. (2017). Drip irrigation and state subsidies in India: Understanding the success of the Gujarat Green Revolution Company. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip irrigation for agriculture: Untold stories of efficiency, innovation and development (pp. 303-323). Routledge.
Liebrand, J. (2017). Performing maps and masculinity in irrigation planning in Nepal: Why modernization myths live on in spite of professional reflexivity. Anthropologie & développement, 46-47, 153-187.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/372560/Liebrand_2017_Maps_Masculinity_and_Modernization_Myths_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/372560/Liebrand_2017_Maps_Masculinity_and_Modernization_Myths_.pdf?sequence=1
Liebrand, J., & Bhushan Udas, P. (2017). Becoming an engineer or a lady engineer: Exploring professional performance and masculinity in Nepal’s Department of Irrigation. Engineering Studies , 9(2), 120-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2017.1345915
2015
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J. (2015). Methods for researching institutions: Critical institutional perspectives. (pp. 1-51). (Environment, Politics and Development Working Paper Series; No. 69). King's College, London.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378209/Methods_for_researching_institutions_Critical_institutional_perspectives_J_Liebrand_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378209/Methods_for_researching_institutions_Critical_institutional_perspectives_J_Liebrand_.pdf?sequence=1
Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Liebrand, J. (2015). Performing modernity: the scalar politics of irrigation development in Nepal. In E. S. Norman, C. Cook, & A. Cohen (Eds.), Negotiating water governance: Why the politics of scale matter (pp. 263-280). (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice). Ashgate. https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Water-Governance-Why-the-Politics-of-Scale-Matter-1st-Edition/Norman-Cook/p/book/9781409467908
2014
Scholarly publications
Singh, M., Liebrand, J., & Joshi, D. (2014). Cultivating “success” and “failure” in policy: Participatory irrigation management in Nepal. Development in Practice, 24(2), 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.885494
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378136/Cultivating_success_and_failure_in_policy_participatory_irrigation_management_in_Nepal.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378136/Cultivating_success_and_failure_in_policy_participatory_irrigation_management_in_Nepal.pdf?sequence=1
2012
Scholarly publications
Liebrand, J., Zwarteveen, M. Z., Wester, P., & van Koppen, B. (2012). The deep waters of land reform: Land, water and conservation area claims in the Olifants Basin, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Water International, 37(7), 773-787. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2012.740613
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378137/deep_waters.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/378137/deep_waters.pdf?sequence=1
2009
Scholarly publications
van Vuren, G., Liebrand, J., & Vincent, L. (2009). Debating the water professional of tomorrow. Irrigation and Drainage, 58(S2), S162-S167. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.491