Towards hydrocitizenship
Project details
Project title: Towards hydrocitizenship
Project duration: May 2014 - May 2017
Funders:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Connected Communities
Project leader for SPE: Dr Michael Buser
Other UWE Bristol researchers:
- Professor Lindsey McEwen
- Dr Katherine Jones
Research partners/collaborators:
- Bath Spa University
- Aberystwyth University
- Bangor University
- University of Manchester
- Brighton University
- Middlesex University
- University of Bristol
Project summary
This three year project will investigate, and make creative contributions to, the ways in which citizens and communities live with each other and their environment in relation to water in a range of UK neighbourhoods. The research asks a series of questions about what communities are, how they function, and the role of environmental (water) assets and issues in the coming together of communities, conflicts within and between communities, and progress to interconnected community and environmental resilience.
Key output
Buser, M., & Boyer, K. (2021). Care goes underground: Thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures. Cultural Geographies, 28(1).
Project contact
For further information on the project, please contact Dr Michael Buser (Michael.Buser@uwe.ac.uk) or Professor Lindsey McEwen (Lindsey.Mcewen@uwe.ac.uk).