New Pub: Rodina, Human right to water in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Rodina, L. (2016). Human right to water in Khayelitsha, South Africa – Lessons from a ‘lived experiences’ perspective. Geoforum 72: 58-66. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.003 Abstract: This paper investigates the implementation of the human right to water through water services provision in an impoverished urban area in Khayelitsha, South Africa, through the lens of lived experiences of water access. Narratives of experiences with communal and in-house water services reveal […]
Sameer Shah receives multiple awards!
Sameer was recently awarded the Freda Pagani Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in IRES, the SSHRC Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship, and was selected for the Governor General’s Gold Medal Award as the only awardee at the Master’s level for all of UBC. He also received the Faculty of Science Graduate Prize ($500), recognizing his outstanding Master’s thesis. Congratulations! During his Master’s, Sameer […]
Congratulations to Phil Torio, PhD!
Join us in congratulating EDGES member Phil Torio for the successful completion of the PhD program at IRES! During his doctoral work under the supervision of Dr. Leila Harris, Phil looked at how the water privatization in Manilla has affected the lives of the urban poor, how they have managed to cope with the effects of privatization, and how […]
EVENT: Guest Lecture by Lucy Rodina at ACDI, Cape Town, May 5
Lucy Rodina is currently in Cape Town, South Africa, for her fieldwork research from April to September 2016. In Cape Town Lucy is visiting the African Climate and Development Initiative, where she will be working in collaboration with Gina Ziervogel and colleagues. Lucy is giving a guest lecture as part of the ACDI brown bag lunch […]
Participatory Videos from Collaborative Work in Accra and Cape Town Are Now Online
In 2014 and 2015, post-doctoral fellow and EDGES member Crystal Tremblay conducted participatory video workshops and community-based research in Site C, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, co-facilitated by Iliso Care Society and the Environmental Monitoring Group. Similar work in Teshie, Accra was done collaboratively with ISODEC and the local assembly (LEKMA), as well as other community partners and civil society organizations. […]
EVENT: Faculty Lecture by Leila Harris at IRES, Apr 7
On Apr 7, Leila Harris will be giving a talk at IRES seminar series, from 12:30 to 1:30 in the Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab Building, room 120. Her talk is titled “Assessing States, Differentiating Citizens: Perspectives on water services and evolving state-society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa”. The lecture is available online […]