@elliotrooney
Water, development, political economy, governance. (1) PhD researcher, water supply in Addis 🇪🇹 @ Water Security & Sustainable Dev Hub, Newcastle U. + IWMI-Ethiopia (2) helping grow @armedgroups.bsky.social https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vHwjozs
I'm guessing they happen in distinct financial parcels, so the liability sits with different entities. Like with telco towers and the radio transmitters that get stuck on the top of them: the tower doesn't become obsolete, but 3G transmitters do.
I also stumbled across this recently: "Funding the construction of data centers typically includes using bank finance and then refinancing the loans into more permanent capital. Some structures in the market have 10-year bullets with a 15-year initial lease." www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/r...
New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.
Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
the death penalty's popularity precisely means that government demonstrates evidence for not using it – mainly, how useless it is in crime reduction, which is a broader and more popular goal than killing people. why not at least look into whether or not water nationalisation would be a good idea?
not unreasonable to expect electricity price to fall and petrol to rise tbf, over a 18-20 year period.
is the idea not to get as much as poss onto electric so we can decarbonise from the supply side?
this gadget still means people driving around in petrol cars + pumping out emissions
It's also a problem for academics based in the UK on visas who need to travel abroad as part of their research. E.g. Manikarnika Dutta and Asiya Islam -- both employed in the UK because of their expertise on India, then refused right to remain because they'd done too much research travel to India.
It's a comical example of ideas of 'entrepreneurial state' etc. Parking tickets a good e.g. for teaching: getting students to think in P.E. terms (income from fines funds public services & so expanding parking restrics. etc is shaped by that need). Makes sense that private equity wants in on that!
Cover of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River by Austin Zeiderman. Cover features pale and dark green eliptical shapes which could be fish or leaves. The title and subtitle are in a white box in the upper left and the author name in a white box in the lower right.
Austin Zeiderman's #NewBook "Artery," relates the Magdalena River’s fraught past and uncertain future to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #Geography #Anthropology
https://buff.ly/40KCay4
Never realised how young they both were. 26 and 29 is good going. German Ideology and Feuerbach were written around the same time but they couldn't get them published, I think. An ACFM on the politics of age, of youth, and of getting/being old would be cool to hear
The Inaugural Issue of Finance and Space @financeandspace.bsky.social is now online. Great move by the FINGEO network, who has been driving this all along...
@rsablog.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfas20/1/1
Useful report on impact of flooding in Africa on stability and security this year. africacenter.org/spotlight/re...
Come and work with me/us! PhD under my supervision in the field of "politics and/or conflict around natural resources" in #Uganda and/or #DRC
Some previous work: what happened in Dar es Salaam after the disastrous water supply + sanitation PPP was cancelled in the early 2000s? Public-public partnerships are underexplored in the literature yet took place, both de jure and de facto, at various scales:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New article! Zhengli Huang, Meseret Desta and I argue that the drive to generate property ownership in urban Ethiopia has actually undermined homeownership:
'Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Three stars, but when you read the text it’s basically a four-star review. I found the film thought provoking and well worth watching.
Avg. interviewee gets 20 hours of piped water in a week, on 2 or 3 days. No new substantial supply-side intervention will come online for years (Gerbi/Sibilu won't even close the gap). Any intervention that wants to meaningfully improve water supply needs to take seriously this day-to-day work.
Using the theoretical base of 'people as infrastructure' (Simone </> Deleuze </> Lefebvre </> Mbembe </> etc), we can understand relations between city residents, and the day-to-day actions of people in the city, as forming a dynamic infrastructure, that lets water jump across pipelines.
What I'm up to: I'm at the business end of writing up my PhD. Based on >100 household interviews across 5 sites in Addis, and political economy analysis, it shows that, to understand how water gets where it needs to be in Addis, we need to look more at people's everyday actions than at pipes.