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.
Everyday lives: A photographic exhibition
From 19 - 24 April, the National Art Galley in Malé will be hosting a photo exhibition based on the Everyday Lives Research project.Featuring images of everyday life taken by islanders, the exhibition highlights varied perspectives on life from across the Maldives.The...
Research findings workshops
In early 2019, Mizna Mohamed and Afrah Rasheed visited the three islands that were the focus of the Everyday Lives project to share research findings with the communities.Amongst the attendees were members of the local island councils as well as the general...
New research published: Everyday life and environmental change
Uma Kothari and Alex Arnall have had a new open access journal article published, entitled Everyday Life and Environmental Change, in the Geographical Journal.Abstract:This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with...
Events Manager: photographic exhibition and launch event
20 days fixed term contract tenable between 17 March to 25 April 2019 (tbc). Salary equivalent to USD 200/day pro rataWe seek to appoint an Events Manager to oversee, plan, manage and coordinate the ‘Everyday Lives and Environmental Change’ photographic exhibition and...
Reflections on community, education and nature in the Maldives
By Aminath Afrah RasheedFrom its inception, this research project was designed as an ethnographic study, where the researchers would spend long periods of time immersed in the communities that were being studied. As a school teacher by profession, I am a novice in...