Advocates: How citizens engage law to address water governance in Cape Town and Accra

This environmental citizenship study loks at how underserved residents understand and influence laws and governance to solve water problems in their communities. The field work was conducted in Cape Town and Accra, a multi-sited approach which draws from activists and legal professionals to consider a broader range of legal rules (human rights, customary law, local ordances) rather than state law only. The reserach has two main objectives. First, identify the relationship between different forms of water governance and how citizens understand their environmental citizenship (as expressed through rights, responsibilities, and participation). Second, to learn how these choices are understood by the participants to relate to their objectives and to help them improve water access.
The work in France will involve engaging and working with similar researcher to bring additional depth and scope to my project beyond what can be found at my home institution. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Leila Harris

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Partner:

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Discipline:

Sociology

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University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award