Fundraiser for Iliso Care Society
Fundraiser for Iliso, Mar 26 We would like to kindly invite you to a fund-raising event to help support one of our community partners in South Africa – the Iliso Care Society. Founded by Vivian Zilo, the Iliso Care Society is a registered non-profit organization and a registered Public Benefit Organization, working for the cause of poverty alleviation in Khayelitsha, Site […]
Margaret Morales joins Genomics Project at UBC
Margaret Morales recently started an internship with genomics.entrepreneurship@UBC. For more information on the project please click HERE. Margaret completed her Masters of Arts in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at UBC in Fall 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Gunilla Öberg and Dr. Leila Harris. More information on Margaret’s thesis is available HERE. Margaret’s work for […]
EDGES at the AAG 2013
Leila Harris and Cynthia Morinville will be presenting at the Association of American Geographers’ (AAG) Annual Meeting in April 2013. Leila Harris will be panelist in the The Right to Water: Theories and Practices (April 12th) session. She is also one of the organizers for Political Ecologies of the State I (April 11) and Political Ecologies of the State II (April 11) and […]
GRSJ Graduate Student Conference – Call for proposals
E(merge)nce: Expanding Interdisciplinary Approaches to Feminism Call for Proposals The Graduate Student Association at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia invites graduate scholars to submit Abstracts for presentations at an interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled E(merge)nce: Expanding Interdisciplinary Approaches to Feminism. The conference will be held on March 4 from 10am-5pm at the Liu […]
EDGES at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
EDGES collaborators Megan Peloso (current IRES Masters student), Cynthia Morinville (IRES and EDGES alumna) and Andrea Marston (EDGES alumna, currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley) attended a workshop from December 3-5 hosted at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, Netherlands, aimed at developing a Water Alternatives Special […]
Welcome to Rosie Simms!
EDGES is pleased to welcome our newest member – Rosie Simms. Rosie is a Masters student working with Dr. Leila Harris. Her research will focus on drinking water monitoring and governance in a collaborative project with British Columbia First Nations communities. Rosie has a BA&Sc (Hons) Environment degree from McGill University, where her interests converged around Canadian […]
Congratulations to Cynthia Morinville!
Cynthia recently completed her Masters of Arts at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. Her thesis, titled Beyond the Pipe: participation and alternative water provision in underserved areas of Accra, Ghana, can be accessed HERE. Cynthia is now working with Dr. Leila Harris and Dr. Karen Bakker at the Program on Water Governance. She also recently […]
New Book: Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
“Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization, Participation“, edited by Leila Harris, Jacqueline Goldin and Chris Sneddon, is coming out on May 15, 2013. The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing […]
EDGES Welcomes Fatima Hasanain!
Fatima Hasanain from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia is joining the EDGES Team. Fatima is a Master’s student working with Dr Leila Harris on issues of gender and representation within certification standards applied to cocoa bean production. More specifically, she is using feminist critical discourse analysis to […]
Congratulations to Margaret Morales!
Margaret successfully defended her thesis on September 17th, 2012, and is now officially a graduate of UBC! Her thesis, ‘Citizenshit – the Right to Flush: Sewage Management and its Meanings in Villa Lamadrid, Buenos Aires, Argentina,’ is now available on Circle – The University of British Columbia’s digital repository for research. Below is an abstract of her […]
New Publication: “Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons”
The International Development Research Network (IDRN), including several members of EDGES – Leila Harris, Cynthia Morinville, Lucy Rodina and Megan Peloso – is a contributor on a newly published book, titled “Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons”. The chapter, “Bridging Disciplinary and Professional Divides to Improve International Development Research at Universities”, investigates the challenges facing university research […]
EDGES Welcomes a New Masters Student from Ghana
EDGES is very pleased to welcome Elizabeth K. Dapaah to the team! Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons) in Geography and Resource Development with Political Science from the University of Ghana – Legon and a certificate in Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Areas and Community Information Base for Environmental Management (EHM). Elizabeth will be […]
Fieldwork Update: Cynthia Morinville in Accra, Ghana
Once again, I partnered with Amba Duaa Mensah Forson and with a little more than half of the summer behind us (already!), we are very pleased with the progress we were able to make on the research front. This field season was divided into two phases. Most of our efforts in June were directed towards […]
Leila Harris Receives PWAIS Fellowship for Africa Project
Leila Harris has recently been awarded a “Visiting Scholar Abroad” fellowship from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for work on water access and governance in South Africa. Awardees are chosen for ‘outstanding and transformative research which will have an impact in terms of addressing an important science or humanities issue in the host […]
Fieldwork Update: Lucy Rodina in Cape Town, South Africa
As part of my Masters program, I (just) completed a 2 and a half-month field season in Cape Town, South Africa from mid-May to the end of July 2012. I arrived on May 12th and met with the Anthropology of Water research group (AOW) a few days later. AOW is a working group at the […]
GE3LS project update: Healthy Watersheds and Metagenomics
Left to right: Leila Harris, Karen Bakker, Gemma Dunn The GE3LS team is a group of researchers working on genomics-related ethical, economic, environmental, legal and social aspects of the Genome Canada funded project Applied Metagenomics of the Watershed Microbiome. The GE3LS team is bi-coastal, with teams from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada. Leila Harris, […]
New publication now available: Leila Harris, “State as Socio-Natural Effect”
Harris, L. (2012). State as Socio-Natural Effect: Variable and Emergent Geographies of the State in Southeastern Turkey. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32(1), 25-39. Abstract: This article draws on recent interventions related to everyday states, state-natures, and political ecologies of the state, as well as Timothy Mitchell’s concept of “state as effect,” […]
EDGES Presents “Water into Wine”: Movie Screening and Social, March 29
The EDGES research collaborative kindly invites everyone to our social event next week. We will be showing Even the Rain and a short documentary, created by one of our members, Margaret Morales. You will also hear short presentations introducing our work. We will have snacks and wine to turn our event into a true celebration! Thursday, March […]
EDGES Welcomes Lyla Mehta at UBC
Lyla Mehta is visiting UBC next week to give a couple of talks. Lyla Mehta is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Life sciences. She is a sociologist and her work has focussed on the politics of water and sanitation, scarcity and forced […]
World Water Day 2012 – Vancouver public events
The Program on Water Governance is collaborating with a number of other organizations to organize a series of public events in celebration of UN World Water Day, March 22, 2012. These events are part of Downstream: Re-imagining Water, a research creation project on water politics. The upcoming public events include: Wednesday evening, March 21, 2012 – Roundhouse Community Centre […]
EDGES at the AAG Annual Meeting in New York, Feb 24-28th
EDGES is very proud to announce that Dr. Leila Harris, Cynthia Morinville and Andrea Marston will be presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting this week in New York. The AAG AM is an interdisciplinary forum that features a wide range of topics, including Political Geography, Natural Hazards, Climate Change, Social Justice and many more. Dr. Harris […]
Upcoming Events, February and March 2012
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, February 16-20, 2012. Session 1: Friday February 17, 2012 12:00-12:45pm (lunchtime topical lecture) Topic: Water Privatization, Urbanization and Development Speaker: Karen Bakker (UBC) Sponsor: AAAS Session 2: Friday February 17, 2012 1:30-4:30pm (afternoon panel session) Topic: Links and trade-offs between water, energy and food […]
Darlene Seto on Studying Gender and Sustainability
Darlene Seto, MA from the IRES program at UBC, posted an insightful blog on the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) website, investigating how gender can play a role for sustainability students. Darlene looks at gender from a twofold perspective: as a concern in environment-related research and as a concern for […]
New publication now available: Leila Harris, “Salts, Soils and (un)sustainabilities?
Harris, L. (2011). “Salts, Soils and (un)sustainabilities? Analyzing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey” in D. Davis and E. Burke III, Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East, University of Ohio Press, 192-217. Book description: The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, […]
FIELD WORK UPDATE: Danika Kleiber’s Data collection experience in the Central Philippines
Pie Charts Are Yummy I know what you’re thinking. It’s just a freaking pie chart, why should that take so long? Well my friends this pie chart represents 600 interviews of people in 12 communities, and converting answers like “10 pieces of fish every other friday” into numeric data takes a bit of time. […]
FIELD WORK UPDATE: Cecilia Roa in Quito, Ecuador
Regional workshop on watershed management and restoration in the Andes – Quito, January 23-27 2012 FONAG, the organization that protects the watersheds that supply water for the city of Quito, hosted a workshop with the participation and coordination of the international program of the US Forest Service. The workshop focused on monitoring mechanisms of the […]
Field Work Update: Margaret Morales in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Margaret Morales is conducting fieldwork in Villa Lamadrid, a small community in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Though the community is on the municipal water supply system, they are part of the over 3.5million people in the metropolitan area living without access to municipal sanitation and wastewater management services. The lack of wastewater management services to […]
New publication now available, Neo(liberal) citizens of Europe: politics, scales, and visibilities of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey
Harris, L. (2011). Neo(liberal) citizens of Europe: politics, scales, and visibilities of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey. Citizenship Studies, 15(6-7), 837-859. Abstract: The aim of this article is to critically interrogate articulations of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey. Specifically, I analyse articulations of environmental citizenship through citizen and activist narratives taken from interviews and focus […]
FIELD WORK UPDATE: Cecilia Roa at a Water Justice meeting in Cusco
The third meeting of the International Alliance for Water Justice took place in Cusco (Peru), Nov 3-5, 2011. This Alliance is coordinated by Wageningen University and this year the meeting focused around strategies to influence water policy making across scales. Twenty five researchers from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, The United […]
EDGES welcomes new students!
Welcome to Lucy Rodina, Megan Peloso, and Phil Torio! Lucy is a Masters student, working on water governance in Cape Town, South Africa. With a specific focus on informal settlements, Lucy will be investigating the mechanisms of public engagement related to water governance and how the human right to water is invoked in daily and […]
L. Harris and EDGES team awarded grant from CIGI – Africa Initiative
Earlier this month the EDGES team was awarded a CIGI – Africa Initiative grant. L. Harris’s proposal, titled “Contextual and policy dimensions of Extending Water Access: Cape Town and Accra”, was among a handful projects, selected out of 362 submissions. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international […]
Interview with Prof. Leila Harris for the CFIS online Annual Report
Prof. Harris was interviewed for the CFIS online Annual Report which is due mid-September. To see the video, plese click HERE. Leila Harris describes her research in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She examines water access and politics in Turkey and Middle East, exploring water […]
UNECE Workshop on Equitable and Affordable access to Water, Geneva, July 2011
In July, 2011, Dr. Leila Harris attended the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) workshop “Equitable and affordable access to water”. Among the attendees were half a dozen academic participants and country representatives from different ministries in Europe responsible for water provision/access, as well as ministries that deal with minority issues. Since the themes […]
Field work update: Andrea Marston in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Cochabamba, Bolivia. Summer 2011 Andrea acompaning Bolivian students during their MA practice. Andrea Marston is studying water use and governance in the southern, peri-urban region of Cochabamba, Bolivia, during summer 2011. Cochabamba’s public water service does not yet extend into this part of the city,which has experienced rapid urbanization in the last several decades,but […]
Dr Leila Harris appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance
Dr Leila Harris appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance It has been announced that Dr Leila Harris has been appointed as Associate Director of the Program on Water Governance (www.watergovernance.ca) Leila Harris is currently Assistant Professor with the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the Centre for Women’s and Gender […]
Danika Kleiber awarded a Kathryn Fuller Doctoral fellowship
Danika Kleiber has just been awarded a prestigious Kathryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship from WWF USA. These highly competitive grants are intended to advance conservation through science. They support research expenses for PhD students working on issues of exceptional importance and relevance to conservation efforts in a marine WWF-US priority place. Danika’s fellowship is worth US$20K. More details here: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/doctoralfund.html. Danika […]