Who we are
Urban Waterworlds is a communication project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Agora scheme, with the support of the University of Basel, the University of Lausanne, the Fundación Grupo Social Cartagena - Plan para el Buen Vivir Comuna 6.
Team
We are a team of academics, grassroots envrironmental organisations, social workers, teachers, photographs, etc. The Urban Waterworlds project enables us to work across the spaces of academia and activism and to engage in a fruitful dialogue with youth in Switzerland and Colombia.
Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland. Silke’s ethnographic research focuses primarily on intersections of the urban and the political, and specifically on the spatialisation and materialisation of power, urban environment and sociality within cities.
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Contact : silke.oldenburg@clutterunibas.ch
Laura Neville is a postdoctoral reseracher in Urban Geography at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests are centred on urban environmental change, infrastructures of disposability and social inequalities in cities in Latin America.
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Contact: laura.neville@clutterunil.ch