Field Work Update: Margaret Morales in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Margaret Morales is conducting fieldwork in Villa Lamadrid, a small community in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Though the community is on the municipal water supply system, they are part of the over 3.5million people in the metropolitan area living without access to municipal sanitation and wastewater management services. The lack of wastewater management services to […]
New publication now available, Neo(liberal) citizens of Europe: politics, scales, and visibilities of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey
Harris, L. (2011). Neo(liberal) citizens of Europe: politics, scales, and visibilities of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey. Citizenship Studies, 15(6-7), 837-859. Abstract: The aim of this article is to critically interrogate articulations of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey. Specifically, I analyse articulations of environmental citizenship through citizen and activist narratives taken from interviews and focus […]
FIELD WORK UPDATE: Cecilia Roa at a Water Justice meeting in Cusco
The third meeting of the International Alliance for Water Justice took place in Cusco (Peru), Nov 3-5, 2011. This Alliance is coordinated by Wageningen University and this year the meeting focused around strategies to influence water policy making across scales. Twenty five researchers from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, The United […]
EDGES welcomes new students!
Welcome to Lucy Rodina, Megan Peloso, and Phil Torio! Lucy is a Masters student, working on water governance in Cape Town, South Africa. With a specific focus on informal settlements, Lucy will be investigating the mechanisms of public engagement related to water governance and how the human right to water is invoked in daily and […]
L. Harris and EDGES team awarded grant from CIGI – Africa Initiative
Earlier this month the EDGES team was awarded a CIGI – Africa Initiative grant. L. Harris’s proposal, titled “Contextual and policy dimensions of Extending Water Access: Cape Town and Accra”, was among a handful projects, selected out of 362 submissions. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international […]
Interview with Prof. Leila Harris for the CFIS online Annual Report
Prof. Harris was interviewed for the CFIS online Annual Report which is due mid-September. To see the video, plese click HERE. Leila Harris describes her research in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She examines water access and politics in Turkey and Middle East, exploring water […]
UNECE Workshop on Equitable and Affordable access to Water, Geneva, July 2011
In July, 2011, Dr. Leila Harris attended the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) workshop “Equitable and affordable access to water”. Among the attendees were half a dozen academic participants and country representatives from different ministries in Europe responsible for water provision/access, as well as ministries that deal with minority issues. Since the themes […]
Field work update: Andrea Marston in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Cochabamba, Bolivia. Summer 2011 Andrea acompaning Bolivian students during their MA practice. Andrea Marston is studying water use and governance in the southern, peri-urban region of Cochabamba, Bolivia, during summer 2011. Cochabamba’s public water service does not yet extend into this part of the city,which has experienced rapid urbanization in the last several decades,but […]
Dr Leila Harris appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance
Dr Leila Harris appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance It has been announced that Dr Leila Harris has been appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance (www.watergovernance.ca) Leila Harris is currently Assistant Professor with the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the Centre for Women’s and Gender […]
Danika Kleiber awarded a Kathryn Fuller Doctoral fellowship
Danika Kleiber has just been awarded a prestigious Kathryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship from WWF USA. These highly competitive grants are intended to advance conservation through science. They support research expenses for PhD students working on issues of exceptional importance and relevance to conservation efforts in a marine WWF-US priority place. Danika’s fellowship is worth US$20K. More details here: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/doctoralfund.html. Danika […]