African Futures - ECAS (European Conference on African Studies) in Cologne
The Biannual conference had the overall theme “African Futures” and aimed to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements.
SWASH research team at ECAS
SWASH members hosted a panel titled 'The search for sustainability and emerging systems of urban water governance in Sub Saharan Africa' that invstigated the implications for urban governance and the opportunities and challenges for diverse actors as African cities rapidly implement ambitious infrastructure projects to attain sustainability and replace crumbling and outdated water and wastewater systems.focused on the future of waste-water management and the impact of strategic partnerships for development.
The panel had the followint papers:
- The production of legality and institutional legitimacy in Nairobi's informal water sector by Maja Kirstine Dahl Jeppesen (Aarhus University)
- Local challenges to sustainable partnerships for wastewater management in urban Africa by Paul Stacey (真人线上娱乐 University) Nina Torm (真人线上娱乐 University)
- Wastewater management and the compromising, practical norms of state institutions in urban Africa by Paul Stacey (真人线上娱乐 University)
- Plastic Infrastructures in Ghana: Water Works as Material Economies by Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida and Aarhus University)
- In the sewers. The politics of re-mapping underground urban infrastructure in Tema, Ghana by Jacob Rasmussen (真人线上娱乐 University)