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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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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, […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Mirosa, O. and Harris, L. M. (2011). Human Right to Water: Contemporary Challenges and Contours of a Global Debate. Antipode. Abstract: In recent years, significant debate has taken place around the concept of the “human right to water”. In this paper, we seek to respond to recent critiques and clarify the terms of the debate by […]

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 […]

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 […]

Accra, Ghana, July 22nd 2011 Cynthia Morinville and Amba Duaa Mensah Forson in front of a water vending kiosk run by Teshie Local Water Board Accra, Ghana, July 22nd 2011 Cynthia Morinville and Amba Duaa Mensah Forson Cynthia Morinville is currently conducting fieldwork in Accra, during the summer of 2011. Working in different informal settlements […]

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 […]