UPCOMING TALK: DACOTAH SPLICHALOVA AT UBC’S FIREtalk EVENT
On November 27th from 4-6pm, EDGES member Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova will speak as part of a UBC FIREtalk event in the UBC Library Research Commons (Koerner Library floor 5). A FIREtalk event focuses on a specific theme and consists of three brief (approximately 10 minutes) presentations by UBC graduate students from different disciplines, followed by a […]
FINAL UPDATE: COMPARATIVE WATER GOVERNANCE IN URBAN SITES OF AFRICA RESEARCH PROJECT (CWGAR)
Final update on L. Harris¨ SSHRC funded project on Water Governance in Accra and Cape Town Access ¨Citizenship¨ and Narrative 2013-2019 is now complete and available, including a full list of publications from the project. PDF of full report available here CWGAR – Final Update.
SPECIAL ISSUE OF WATER REPUBLISHED AS BOOK: WATER GOVERNANCE: RETHEORIZING POLITICS”
Leila M. Harris, Sameer H. Shah, Nicole J. Wilson, and Joanne Nelson edited the special issue titled “Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics” in Water, now re-published in book form. Description: This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and […]
NEW PUB: JEPSON, WUTICH & HARRIS: WATER-SECURITY CAPABILITIES AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER
Leila Harris co-authored a book chapter, “Water-security capabilities and the human right to water” in Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus. Description: Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to […]
NEW PUB: BRISBOIS, SPIEGEL & HARRIS: HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND COLONIAL LEGACIES: SITUATING THE SCIENCE OF PESTICIDES, BANANAS AND BODIES IN ECUADOR
Leila Harris co-authored an article, “Health, environment and colonial legacies: Situating the science of pesticides, bananas and bodies in Ecuador” in Social Science & Medicine. Abstract: Pesticide-related health impacts in Ecuador’s banana industry illustrate the need to understand science’s social production in the context of major North-South inequities. This paper explores colonialism’s ongoing context specific relationships to […]
UPCOMING TALK: LEILA HARRIS TO SPEAK AT THE 2019 BC NURSES UNION HUMAN RIGHTS + EQUITY CONFERENCE
On November 29, 2019, Leila will speak at the British Columbia Nurses Union Human Rights and Equity Conference about the equity and governance considerations related to the human right to water. This year’s conference is focused on addressing climate change through the lens of nursing, advocacy and leadership. Details: Challenges related to the human right to […]
LEILA HARRIS TALKS TO THE PETER WALL INSTITUTE ABOUT THE SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF WATER INSECURITY
Over the summer, Leila talked to UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies about the social challenges of water insecurity. Thinking beyond the physical and public health ramifications of water insecurity, Leila discusses her work investigating the effects access to water can have on social relationships and dynamics, and people’s emotional lives. Full video can […]
CONGRATULATIONS TO DACOTAH-VICTORIA ON HER UBC PUBLIC SCHOLAR AWARD AND MITACS-ACCELERATE RESEARCH AWARD!
EDGES member Dacotah-Victoria is a new UBC Public Scholar. Dacotah’s PSI (Public Scholars Initiative) award will support her co-designed community partner engagement project, “Examining the Museum of Rain Theatre project: Exploring narratives of water (in)security in British Columbia”. For this project, Dacotah is collaborating with the Vancouver based-theatre production company, The Only Animal to illuminate diverse experiences of […]
NEW PUB: RODINA: WATER RESILIENCE LESSONS FROM CAPE TOWN’S WATER CRISIS
EDGES alumna Lucy Rodina published an article titled “Water resilience lessons from Cape Town’s water crisis” in WIREs Water. Abstract: In the aftermath of the acute water crisis, building resilience in the water sector has become a priority for the City of Cape Town. In this piece, I discuss several emerging lessons from Cape Town’s […]
SPECIAL ISSUE OF WATER: “WATER GOVERNANCE: RETHEORIZING POLITICS”
Leila M. Harris, Sameer H. Shah, Nicole J. Wilson, and Joanne Nelson edited the special issue titled “Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics” in Water. Abstract: This Special Issue on water governance features a series of articles that highlight recent and emerging concepts, approaches, and case studies to re-center and re-theorize “the political” in relation to decision-making, […]
NEW PUB: HARRIS: ASSESSING STATES: WATER SERVICE DELIVERY AND EVOLVING STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN ACCRA, GHANA AND CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Leila M. Harris published an article titled, “Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state-society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa,” in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Abstract:This paper analyzes water services in relation to trust in government, with insights for broader state–society relations. The work is based on a […]
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[ART EXHIBIT] THE PRECARITY: WATER AND POWER
Several EDGES members participated in an art exhibit at the Science Gallery of Detroit. The Precarity: Water and Power exhibit includes images taken by EDGES team members Crystal Tremblay, Megan Peloso, Cynthia Morinville, and Leila Harris while conducting research in Accra, Ghana. The exhibit includes two participatory videos made in collaboration between Crystal Tremblay and […]
NEW PUB: WILSON: “SEEING WATER LIKE A STATE?”: INDIGENOUS WATER GOVERNANCE THROUGH YUKON FIRST NATION SELF-GOVERNMENT AGREEMENTS
EDGES alumna Nicole J. Wilson published an article titled, “”Seeing Water Like a State?”: Indigenous water governance through Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreements” in Geoforum. Abstract: Yukon First Nations and the waters within their traditional territories face a variety of socio-political and environmental pressures including the effects of historical and ongoing settler colonialism, global environmental […]
NEW PUB: RODINA: Planning for water resilience: Competing agendas among Cape Town’s planners and water managers
EDGES alumna Lucy Rodina published an article titled “Planning for water resilience: Competing agendas among Cape Town’s planners and water managers” in Environmental Science & Policy. Abstract: Facing acute water challenges, the City of Cape Town has to reconcile the goal of building resilience to increasingly pronounced climate change impacts, including drought, with the persistent […]
3 NEW PUBS: ARTICLES IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF WATER INTERNATIONAL
Leila M. Harris and her three colleagues published 3 articles in Water International Volume 44(2), a special issue they edited together. The title of the special issue is “Rural-urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities.” To view full article, click the article title below. Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Harris, L.M. […]
NEW PUB: CAMPERO AND HARRIS: THE LEGAL GEOGRAPHIES OF WATER CLAIMS: SEAWATER DESALINATION IN MINING REGIONS IN CHILE
EDGES members Cecilia Campero and Leila M. Harris published a paper titled, “The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile” in Water. Abstract: The use of desalination has been increasing in recent years. Although this is not a new technology, its use often proceeds within ill-defined and ambiguous legal, institutional, […]
CONGRATS TO SEJIN UM FOR COMPLETION OF HER MA DEGREE IN GRSJ
EDGES member Sejin Um successfully completed her MA degree in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at UBC. Her MA thesis is titled, “Why Do Young Women Leave Conglomerates? Gender and the Militarized Workplace in South Korea.” She will be joining the doctoral program in sociology at New York University in fall 2019. Abstract: […]
NEW PUB: Wilson et al.: Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada
EDGES alumna Nicole J. Wilson, EDGES member Leila M. Harris and colleagues published an article titled, “Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada” in Water. Abstract: There is growing acknowledgement that the material dimensions of water security alone are inadequate; we also need […]
CONGRATS TO ANDREA ON HER NEW JOB!
From fall 2019, EDGES alumna Andrea Marston will start as an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Rutgers University. Andrea was a member of EDGES and PoWG from 2010-2012, while she was obtaining her MA in Geography at UBC. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, natural resource use/extraction, and land-based group identities. For […]
CONGRATS TO MEGAN PELOSO ON HER NEW JOB!
EDGES alumna Megan Peloso is based in Smithers, BC and works as a Land and Resource Coordinator with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. In her role with the Skeena Regional Initiatives team, Megan applies her background in watershed sustainability and governance to modernized land use planning. Megan graduated in May 2014 […]
NEW PUB: WUTICH ET AL.: HOUSEHOLD WATER SHARING: A REVIEW OF WATER GIFTS, EXCHANGES, AND TRANSFERS ACROSS CULTURES
Leila Harris co-authored an article, “Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures” in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. Abstract: Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms, including so‐called […]
NEW PUB: RAMÓN-HIDALGO AND HARRIS: SOCIAL CAPITAL, POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY OF AN ECOTOURISM PROJECT IN THE RURAL VOLTA REGION OF GHANA
EDGES member Leila M. Harris and Ana-Elia Ramón-Hidalgo published an article titled, “Social Capital, political empowerment and social difference: a mixed-methods study of an ecotourism project in the rural Volta region of Ghana,” in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Abstract: Claims abound regarding the empowering possibilities of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM). Social capital is […]
NEW PUB: SHAH ET AL.: DOES HOUSEHOLD CAPITAL MEDIATE THE UPTAKE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND, CROP, AND LIVESTOCK ADAPTATIONS? EVIDENCE FROM THE INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS (INDIA)
EDGES member Sameer H. Shah and colleagues published an article titled, “Does household capital mediate the uptake of agricultural land, crop, and livestock adaptations? Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic Plains (India),” in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Farmers in the Indo-Gangetic Plains produce much of the wheat and rice grown in India. However, food production and […]
NEW PUB: RODINA: DEFINING “WATER RESILIENCE”: DEBATES, CONCEPTS, APPROACHES, AND GAPS
EDGES alumna Lucy Rodina published an article titled “Defining “water resilience”: Debates, concepts, approaches, and gaps” in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. Abstract: Resilience is increasingly applied the context of water systems, and water governance more broadly, in response to climate change impacts, hydrologic variability and uncertainty associated with various dimensions of global environmental change. However, the […]