New Publication: Morales, Harris and Oberg, Citizenshit: the right to flush and the urban sanitation imaginary
del Carmen Morales M, Harris L., and G. Öberg (2014) Citizenshit: the right to flush and the urban sanitation imaginary. Environment and Planning A, 46(12): 2816 – 2833. Abstract: For many in the Global North, urban life means that your shit is not your problem. We postulate that a possible reason for the global sanitation failure in […]
CfP: ‘Resilience and Water Governance’ Special Session at CAG 2015
EDGES members Lucy Rodina and Sameer Shah are co-hosting a special session on Resilience and Water Governance at the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting hosted by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC in June this year. Session description: Population growth and environmental change will have impacts on water quality, quantity, and availability around the world carrying significant […]
New Publication: Gutberlet and Tremblay, The Community-Based Research Tradition in Latin America
Gutberlet, J., Tremblay C. and C. Moraes (2014). The Community-Based Research Tradition in Latin America. In: R. Munck, L. MacIlrath, B. Hall and R. Tandon (Eds). Higher Education and Community Based Research. Palgrave Macmillan: London, UK. Abstract: This chapter captures insights from the long tradition Latin American intellectuals and practitioners have had with participatory and action- oriented research. […]
Media Release: Building community research partnerships worldwide
University World News recently released a feature on a global study of community-university research partnerships led by the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. EDGES member and IRES post-doc Crystal Tremblay is one of the researchers involved in this project. “Crystal Tremblay, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia […]