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Dear colleagues
Apologies for cross listings.
Please consider proposing a paper, or recommending to a colleague to propose a paper, for a panel in the IUAES 2013 World Congress - deadline for submission of paper proposals is 13 July 2012
Panel Title: Contemporary urban water ecologies: anthropological perspectives and engagements
Panel Abstract:
The introduction of reliably reticulated potable water, especially in urban areas, has, along with the provision of water-borne sewerage systems, long ago been demonstrated to have had a major positive impact on public health - as has efficient urban drainage systems. Yet in many parts of the early 21st century world, very rapid urban growth has massively outpaced local government's capacity (where such exists) to ensure that such services are provided to city and town residents. A consequence is often poor public health alongside a range of attempts to introduce and/or implement various alternatives to tried and tested systems, especially as regards sanitation provision. Moreover, such alternatives often come in the wake of calls to establish so-called sustainable systems in the face of both climate change predictions and neo-liberal economic policy prescriptions.
The purpose of the panel is to bring together anthropologists and others concerned with the social and cultural aspects of contemporary urban water-supply and urban sanitation provision, especially but not only in contexts of rapid urban growth. The goal is twofold: to provide an opportunity for comparisons of detailed ethnographies, from various parts of the world, of the challenges of contemporary urban water-supply, sanitation provision and drainage systems; and to consider, again with an interest in comparison, how and where anthropologists have managed to engage in activities aimed at providing such services/facilities - the extent of their successes and the challenges they have faced.
*For full details*:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1683
To propose a paper scroll down to end of the panel page and sign up/log in
to nomadit.
*Congress website:*
http://www.iuaes2013.org/index.html
The panel is identified as Panel PE44 in the Track called ‘Producing the Earth'
Sincerely
Mugsy Spiegel
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Andrew D Spiegel PhD
Assoc Prof in Social Anthropology; and
Director, Postgrad Studies & Funding,
Faculty of Humanities
University of Cape Town
P O Rondebosch
7701 Cape Town
South Africa
ph: +27 21 650 3679
fax: +27 21 650 2307
Vice-president & treasurer, IUAES
Member, WCAA organising committee
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