CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productions

In Spring 2024, I had a conversation with Gemma Gasseau . It was a light talk, slow (full of definitions for lay-listeners) but deep at the same time, and definetely highly inspiring. It was based on her article 'Negotiating the public' ( Globalizations, 2024 ). The talk was recorded in my late afternoon in Norway (after a toddler-care), and Gemma's early morning in the US. Enjoy the conversation...

I spoke to Marwa about her process in the PhD journey. I always find her research trajectory interesting and especially because she is committed to social movement agenda and groups. In this podcast episode, we also spoke about theories that have inspired her. It is highly recommended for those just starting a research in water governance, and indeed for those wanting updates about Jakarta. --- Ma...

It is very timely to speak about accountability, a topic that Preeta Dhar has been engaging with in water governance. She is a PhD Candidate at SOAS University of London. Her dissertation project seeks to address system accountability that is beyond the technical needs in addressing corruption or mis-management. Her aim is to understand power dynamics beyond the visible stretch of water infrastruc...

Dona Geagea is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the research program NEWAVE – Next Water Governance, an EU funded Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. Her research investigates emerging re-commoning water governance practices as a response to austerity crises in Terrassa and Naples. Previously, Dona’s Master research focused on the top-down impact of neoliberal polic...

An introduction to Season 5. The point is to explain it, stupid! This is not a stupid season, but smart, really! It is a call for a critical realist explanation. --- Theme music: Solidas by Marjinal . The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesi...

I have been thinking about emergence of diverse struggling bodies, modalities of struggles, and organization of social movements/ institutionalisation of social movements. It is really great to have Mangala Subramaniam with us. She is a Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. She has been an important figure within diverse academic communities in the US and in India....

Andreas Harsono is a senior journalist and a human right activist . He has written several reports on the case of water privatization especially in Jakarta. He links the privatization issue with democracy and accountability in governance as well as the Indonesian historical trajectory in infrastructure development and public policy making. Around 20 years after his reports on the case of Jakarta w...

I am so glad to have Franziska Paul as our guest in this episode. She is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Dr. Franziska Paul holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Glasgow, with her thesis on energy democracy and trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism. She then worked as a postdoctoral researche...

Episode #4.3 The People’s Coalition for the Rights to Water (KRUHA): the political economy context of its birth and the terrains of its struggles Minute 2 an introduction to the Episode Minute 3 a conversation with KRUHA begins with a summary how we got to know each other Minute 4.5 the context from which KRUHA was born in 2002, the political economy in Indonesia at that time, including the role o...

Episode #4.2 on the trajectory of privatisation and the logic of (global) capital, as well as some possible paths that have emerged to improve public services David McDonald joins us in this episode. He is a Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. He founded Municipal Services Project and serves as the co-director since 2000; Informed by social mo...

Season #4 WATER PRIVATIZATION AND ITS RADICAL ALTERNATIVES Minute 1 what in Season 4 Minute 2.15 who joins us in Season 4 Minute 3 about the Introductory Episode (English) Minute 5.30 onwards a conversation with Nila Ardhianie , Marwa and Mohamad Mova Al’Afghani (Bahasa Indonesia) In Season 4, I have discussions with David McDonald (Queen’s University), Franziska Paul (University of Glasgow), Mang...

On this episode CO-Water Voice collaborates with Trialog, a Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context for the launching of Trialog Vol. 142 Decentralized Water Management in Rapidly Growing Cities. The guest editorial team from Hafencity Universität was led by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Dickhaut , with Ajith Edahoot , Tim Fettback , and Mahmoud Moursy. On this podcast Episode, we hear th...

On this episode, we speak to Antje Stokman . She is a Professor of landscape architecture and landscape planning at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. She has led various urban water projects in different cities. Her academic research is centred at the interplays among hydrological dynamics, urban landscape, water governance as well as the social-cultural dynamics in the world of water. Today we talk...

Bosman Batubara through his long research on Jakarta's floods and his personal reflection on rural-to-urban migration argues for a political ecology of urbanization. He has contributed greatly to the scholarship of urban water. I remember the debates organized by Bharat Punjabi, published by IJURR in 2015 to response to the important contribution of Karren Bakker, Privatizing Water . In these deba...

Katrin Pakizer is with us on this episode. She is a post-doc researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology where she investigates different pathways that lead to water supply and wastewater regionalization. She is also a research associate at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Switzerland, specifically at its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship....

On this episode, we have a good opportunity to speak with Timothy Moss . Timothy Moss is a Senior Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover. He is the author of Remaking Berlin: A History of the City Through Infrastructure that was published in 20...

A small episode, a brief message from Prathiwi about the coming season on Urban Water. - Music: Lair, Biru Beriak; Marjinal, Solidas

In the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner. As our guest on this episode, we have Sören Köpke, my colleague at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, at the University of Kassel. He currently works for the Aurora Project, which is a research co...

In the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner. Leila Harris is with us on this episode! She is a Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. On...

A conversation with Ahmed Soliman , a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel. Opening music: Solidas by Marjinal . The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community...

A conversation with Arvind Lakshmisha, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel. Opening music: Solidas by Marjinal . The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming commun...

A conversation with Nora Schütze , a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel. Opening music: Solidas by Marjinal . The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community...

In this first episode, I present a conversation with my research mentor, Prof. Andreas Thiel at the University of Kassel. Opening music: Solidas by Marjinal . The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroy...