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SPECIAL ISSUE OF WATER REPUBLISHED AS BOOK: WATER GOVERNANCE: RETHEORIZING POLITICS”

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

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

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 […]