Everyday life, environmental change and small island states
This work explores how the day-to-day dimensions of people’s lives intersect with how their physical environment changes and the implications of these for diverse individuals and groups. By undertaking research with island and coastal communities, we aim to better understand how people support, accommodate, negotiate and resist such changes in their everyday lives.
Islanders in the midst of a pandemic
I was born and brought up in the Maldives, a country where climate change is a daily existential threat. For long I have wanted to understand the underlying processes of these changes in the context of small island states. I now have an opportunity to explore these...
The everyday and environmental change: connecting research projects
Our new research project, Environmental Change, Everyday lives and Small Island States, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), builds on and extends our current project, Everyday Lives and Environmental Change, funded by the ESRC-DFID. The ESRC-DFID project...
Visit to the islands of Kandholhudhoo and Dhuvafaafaru in Raa Atoll
In January 2019, Uma Kothari and Alex Arnall visited the islands of Kandholhudhoo and Dhuvafaafaru in Raa Atoll. Kandholhudhoo was badly affected by the tsunami of 2004, which resulted in it being abandoned shortly after by its 3600 inhabitants. Eventually, the people...
Meeting the Minister of Environment
In September 2019 Uma Kothari and Alex Arnall met with the Maldivian Minister of Environment, Dr Hussain Rasheed Hassan, in Malé. During the meeting they discussed findings coming out of the Everyday Lives and Environmental Change project as well as plans for new...
Impact Initiative recognises Everyday Lives in the Maldives
Following the positive responses we received to the Everyday Lives photo exhibition we hosted in Malé with UNDP, the project has been recognised by the Impact Initiative.The Impact Initiative for international development research aims to increase the uptake and...
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