Dr. Birkenholtz is a cultural and political ecologist and development geographer. His work attempts to link the political economy of access to and control over environmental resources, and ecological change (political ecology), to issues of technology, knowledge, and social power, more typical of research in science and technology studies (STS). To date, he has advanced these concerns by investigating the transformation of groundwater-based irrigation, and urban and rural water supplies in South Asia. He also serves as Environment and Society Section Editor for the journal Geography Compass.

Dr. Birkenholtz is visiting UBC this week (March 10-13, 2015). His visit is co-hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ) and EDGES. He is giving a talk at GRSJ on March 11. (more information is available HERE), followed by a informal student meeting and a brown-bag lunch the following day.

For more information, email us at edges.ubc [at] gmail [dot] com