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CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsPreeta Dhar on Accountability in Water GovernanceIt is very timely to speak about accountability, a topic that Preeta Dhar has been engaging with in water governance. She is a PhD Candidate at SOAS University of London. Her dissertation project seeks to address system accountability that is beyond the technical needs in addressing corruption or mis-management. Her aim is to understand power dynamics beyond the visible stretch of water infrastructures. Towards the end of the conversation we mentioned about the People’s Water Forum, which unfortunately has been forcedly annulled by the Indonesian Government.CO-Water Voice Theme Music:Solidas by Marjinal. The mu...2024-06-2534 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsDona Geagea on commoning water - explaining the case of Terrassa and NaplesDona Geagea is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the research program NEWAVE – Next Water Governance, an EU funded Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. Her research investigates emerging re-commoning water governance practices as a response to austerity crises in Terrassa and Naples. Previously, Dona’s Master research focused on the top-down impact of neoliberal policies at the global platform in eroding communal water management traditions in rural communities in Kenya. In the course of her PhD research, she has published in Urban Studies and International Journal of the Commons. ***Opening music:Biru...2024-03-1927 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsTHE POINT IS TO EXPLAIN IT, YES?!An introduction to Season 5. The point is to explain it, stupid!This is not a stupid season, but smart, really! It is a call for a critical realist explanation.---Theme music:Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas...2024-03-0104 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsMangala Subramaniam on water commodification and diverse trajectories of social movementsI have been thinking about emergence of diverse struggling bodies, modalities of struggles, and organization of social movements/ institutionalisation of social movements. It is really great to have Mangala Subramaniam with us. She is a Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. She has been an important figure within diverse academic communities in the US and in India. Her most actual societal service in the academia is Senior Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research is in the broad areas of social inequality and social movements and she has published a number of outputs...2023-11-2642 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsAndreas Harsono, some 20 years after his award-winning reports on Jakarta's water privatization (in English)Andreas Harsono is a senior journalist and a human right activist. He has written several reports on the case of water privatization especially in Jakarta. He links the privatization issue with democracy and accountability in governance as well as the Indonesian historical trajectory in infrastructure development and public policy making. Around 20 years after his reports on the case of Jakarta were published, the issues he has raised are still highly relevant: the absence of transparency and real participation in public policy making. It is so valuable to have him in this episode as he has reported on many other...2023-11-1325 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsFranziska Paul on the German trajectory of (neoliberal) governance, the locus of ‘local state’ and community movementsI am so glad to have Franziska Paul as our guest in this episode. She is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Dr. Franziska Paul holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Glasgow, with her thesis on energy democracy and trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project, in which she contributed some publications on public ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including some case study in the US and Germany...2023-10-3034 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsMuhammad Reza Sahib about the People’s Coalition for the Rights to Water (KRUHA) Indonesia and its terrains of struggleEpisode #4.3 The People’s Coalition for the Rights to Water (KRUHA): the political economy context of its birth and the terrains of its strugglesMinute 2 an introduction to the EpisodeMinute 3 a conversation with KRUHA begins with a summary how we got to know each otherMinute 4.5 the context from which KRUHA was born in 2002, the political economy in Indonesia at that time, including the role of World BankMinute 9 work-focus of KRUHA against the political agenda of World Bank, including KRUHA’s reading on Integrated Water Resource ManagementMinu...2023-10-1844 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsDavid McDonald on the trajectory of privatisation and the future of water servicesEpisode #4.2 on the trajectory of privatisation and the logic of (global) capital, as well as some possible paths that have emerged to improve public servicesDavid McDonald joins us in this episode. He is a Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Canada.He founded Municipal Services Project and serves as the co-director since 2000; Informed by social movements, labour unions and community groups, the Municipal Services Project examines trajectories of privatization in several countries and the possible paths towards the alternatives that have emerged from these particular locations. His ex...2023-10-1147 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsIntroduction to Season 4 and an Opening Conversation with Nila Ardhianie, Marwa and Mova Al'AfghaniSeason #4 WATER PRIVATIZATION AND ITS RADICAL ALTERNATIVESMinute 1 what in Season 4Minute 2.15 who joins us in Season 4Minute 3 about the Introductory Episode (English)Minute 5.30 onwards a conversation with Nila Ardhianie, Marwa and Mohamad Mova Al’Afghani (Bahasa Indonesia)In Season 4, I have discussions with David McDonald (Queen’s University), Franziska Paul (University of Glasgow), Mangala Subramaniam (Virginia Commonwealth University), Margherita D’Andrea(University of Naples) and Giuseppe Micciarelli (University of Salerno), as well as Sirisha Naidu (University of Missouri - Kansas City). Equally important, we also hear from Muhammad Reza S...2023-10-0452 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsTrialog Vol. 142 Decentralized Water Management in Rapidly Growing CitiesOn this episode CO-Water Voice collaborates with Trialog, a Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context for the launching of Trialog Vol. 142 Decentralized Water Management in Rapidly Growing Cities. The guest editorial team from Hafencity Universität was led by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Dickhaut, with Ajith Edahoot, Tim Fettback, and Mahmoud Moursy.On this podcast Episode, we hear the excerpts of the article presentations, and in the second part from the minute 34 onwards, I open the discussion session. It is opened and ended by a message from Trialog’s coordinating editor Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai.2022-12-191h 02
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsProf. Antje Stokman on waterscape in the city and our professional responsibilities as planners and architectsOn this episode, we speak to Antje Stokman. She is a Professor of landscape architecture and landscape planning at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. She has led various urban water projects in different cities. Her academic research is centred at the interplays among hydrological dynamics, urban landscape, water governance as well as the social-cultural dynamics in the world of water. Today we talk about waterscape in the city, in what ways it matters for and are affected by the larger social-ecological scales, and how we can improve the management and planning of urban water infrastructures. There is some guidance we r...2022-11-2936 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsBosman Batubara on Floods in (post-) New Order JakartaBosman Batubara through his long research on Jakarta's floods and his personal reflection on rural-to-urban migration argues for a political ecology of urbanization. He has contributed greatly to the scholarship of urban water. I remember the debates organized by Bharat Punjabi, published by IJURR in 2015 to response to the important contribution of Karren Bakker, Privatizing Water. In these debates, one commentator Vinay Gidwani points at an area that could be improved in Karen Bakker's book, that is an analysis about the dialectic of city and country as intertwined ecologies. To me, Bosman Batubara has responded to Gidwani's call. This...2022-11-0837 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsKatrin Pakizer on modular, decentralized water technologies and housing co-operatives in SwitzerlandKatrin Pakizer is with us on this episode. She is a post-doc researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology where she investigates different pathways that lead to water supply and wastewater regionalization. She is also a research associate at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Switzerland, specifically at its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. On this episode we speak about her recently defended PhD Thesis at ETH Zürich, about Modular Decentralized Water Technologies. She works with several case studies, including the Housing Co-operative Equilibre in Geneva. From the latter, she found w...2022-10-2040 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsProf. Timothy Moss on Berlin waterscape, the changing urban system and some collective actionsOn this episode, we have a good opportunity to speak with Timothy Moss. Timothy Moss is a Senior Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover.He is the author of Remaking Berlin: A History of the City Through Infrastructure that was published in 2020. This conversation, with examples from Berlin, shows only a tiny tiny part of his knowledge about transformations and dynamics of urban infrastructures. For more good sources about Berlin, you can watch for example some films...2022-10-0432 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsBye Season 2 (and bye summer!), welcoming Season 3A small episode, a brief message from Prathiwi about the coming season on Urban Water.-Music: Lair, Biru Beriak; Marjinal, Solidas2022-09-2703 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsSören Köpke on the political ecology of dryland regions and a methodological approach to research on water conflictIn the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner.As our guest on this episode, we have Sören Köpke, my colleague at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, at the University of Kassel. He currently works for the Aurora Project, which is a research cooperation among four universities in Lebanon, Marocco, Tunisia and Germany. In his works, he has been focusing on the social-ecological dynamics of food systems and international policy of environmental change. He has co...2022-09-0640 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsProf. Leila Harris on equity, diversity and state-citizenship relations in water governanceIn the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner. Leila Harris is with us on this episode! She is a Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. On this episode, we have an interesting conversation about equity in counterbalancing efficiency, the pluriverse of water systems, as well as the spatial and scalar dimensions of water conflict.---...2022-08-2435 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsAhmed Soliman on collective actions in the vernacular and modern irrigation systems in EgyptA conversation with Ahmed Soliman, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.Opening music:Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new...2022-07-0531 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsArvind Lakshmisha on the lake-systems of Bangalore and the bridging organizations in Socio-ecological Systems (SES)A conversation with Arvind Lakshmisha, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.Opening music:Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new...2022-06-1434 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsNora Schütze on Spanish river basins and participation in water governanceA conversation with Nora Schütze, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.Opening music:Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the n...2022-05-3119 min
CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productionsProf. Andreas Thiel on institutions, scale in governance and the politics of problem solvingIn this first episode, I present a conversation with my research mentor, Prof. Andreas Thiel at the University of Kassel. Opening music:Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international...2022-05-1723 min