Tracing peri-urban pathways to Water Justice

Adriana Allen and Pascale Hofmann are currently in Kolkata to explore the potential of institutional and everyday practices to build water justice in a context where unmet needs are growing fastest and where conventional centralised networks are unlikely to become the norm.

This is the second venture of WatJust, a network for translocal learning that examines pathways to water justice in peri-urban Kolkata, Cochabamba and Dar es Salaam. Funded by the International Social Sciences Council (ISSC) Transformations to Sustainability Programme, this learning platform includes a group of renowned partners from academia and practice.

This trip traces the peri-urban waterscape of the East Kolkata Wetlands and brings together part of the team both for a hands-on exploration of this fascinating case and participation in a two-day Conference on Sustainable Urbanisation in India: Challenges and opportunities, organised by project partner Jenia Mukherjee at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (15-16 January 2015).

The DPU team are also joined in this occasion by Asish Ghosh (CED, Kolkata) and Wilbard Kombe (ARDHI University, Dar es Salaam).

@allenDPUadriana & Pascale Hofmann are currently in Kolkata India researching on urban water justice pic.twitter.com/aeHhHNX9jC

— Dev. Planning Unit (@dpu_ucl) January 19, 2015

Related Content

The DPU has a proud tradition of working in the peri-urban interface. Read more about our work past and present, including news of a topic guide we have been preparing for DFID:

• Building Knowledge for Peri-Urban Planning Practices
• Governance of Water and Sanitation Services for the Peri-urban Poor [free book download]