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NEW PUB FROM RUTGERD BOELENS, LEILA HARRIS, AND OTHERS- RIVERHOOD: POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF SOCIONATURE COMMONING AND TRANSLOCAL STRUGGLES FOR WATER JUSTICE

NEW PUB FROM RUTGERD BOELENS, LEILA HARRIS, AND OTHERS- RIVERHOOD: POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF SOCIONATURE COMMONING AND TRANSLOCAL STRUGGLES FOR WATER JUSTICE

Abstract: Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering ‘unruly waters and humans’ have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, transdisciplinary, multi-scalar coalitions that deploy alternative river–society ontologies, bridge […]

WELCOME NEW EDGES MEMBER: MANVI BHALLA

WELCOME NEW EDGES MEMBER: MANVI BHALLA

The EDGES Research Collaborative is very pleased to welcome a new member, Manvi Bhalla (she/her), who is working on her Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Leila Harris and Prof. Amanda Giang at UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability! More about Manvi below: Contact Email: manvi.bhalla@ubc.ca Manvi has over 13 years of experience […]

CONGRATS TO EDGES ALUM SAMEER SHAH ON HIS NEW JOB!

CONGRATS TO EDGES ALUM SAMEER SHAH ON HIS NEW JOB!

EDGES alum Dr. Sameer Shah is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Congratulations, Sameer! His research at the university aims to understand the socio-economic and political processes by which climate change unevenly impacts people, and their water, food, and energy resources. He is especially interested in analyzing […]