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Cecilia Alda
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Fellow - Principal línea de investigación:
Urban climate adaptation, everyday practices, infrastructures - BC3 Research Line:
4. Research Line Adaptation Lab - Información de contacto:
Email: cecilia.alda@bc3research.org
Teléfono: +34 94 401 46 90 - Scopus Author ID: 57193418666
Short CV
I am a political ecologist interested in urban environmental challenges. My research focuses on the everyday governance of urban infrastructures in the context of growing inequalities and climate crises.
Affiliation previous to BC3
Alda-Vidal, C., Browne, A. L., Lawhon, M., & Iossifova, D. (2024). Sanitation Configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid. Urban Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231217661Alda-Vidal, C., Khalid, R., Foulds, C., Royston, S., & Greene, M. (2023). Gender imaginaries in energy transitions: How professionals construct and envision gender equity in energy access in the Global South. World Development, 168, 106258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106258
Alda-Vidal, C., Lawhon, M., Iossifova, D., & Browne, A. L. (2023). Living with fragile infrastructure: The gendered labour of preventing, responding to and being impacted by sanitation failures. Geoforum, 141, 103724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103724
Schiffer, A., Greene, M., Khalid, R., Foulds, C., Vidal, C. A., Chatterjee, M., ... & Yesutanbul, A. N. (2022). Brokering Gender Empowerment in Energy Access in the Global South. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), 619-637. https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.236
Alda-Vidal, C., Browne, A.L. (2020). Absorbents, practices, and infrastructures: Changing socio-material landscapes of menstrual waste in Lilongwe, Malawi. Social & Cultural Geography, 23, 1057-1077 https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1901974
Alda-Vidal, C., Browne, A.L., & Hoolohan, C. (2020). Unflushables: Establishing a global agenda for action on everyday practices associated with sewer blockages, water quality, and plastic pollution. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 7, e1452 https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1452
Hadzovic, L., Rusca, M, Alda-Vidal, C., & Schwartz, K. (2019). Everyday practices in the production of uneven water pricing regimes in Lilongwe, Malawi. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39, 300–317 https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419856021
Alda-Vidal, C., Kooy, M., & Rusca, M. (2017). Mapping operation and maintenance: an everyday urbanism analysis of inequalities within piped water supply in Lilongwe, Malawi. Urban Geography, 39, 104-121 https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1292664
Rusca, M., Alda-Vidal, C., Hordijk, & M., Kral, N. (2017). Bathing without water: stories of everyday hygiene practices and risk perception in urban low-income areas. Environment and Urbanization, 29, 533–550 https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247817700291
Alda-Vidal, C., Rusca, M., Zwarteveen, M. Z., Schwartz, K., & Pouw, N. R. M. (2017). Occupational genders and gendered occupations: The case of water provisioning in Maputo, Mozambique. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24, 974–990 https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339019
Affiliation previous to BC3
Rusca, M., Alda-Vidal, C., & Kooy, M. (2018). Sanitation Justice? The multiple dimensions of urban sanitation inequalities. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (eds.), Water Justice, (pp. 210-225). Cambridge University Press. DOI:10.1017/9781316831847.014 ISBN: 978-1-107-17908-0Affiliation previous to BC3
Alda-Vidal, C., Browne, A.L., Smith, R. 2021. How the UK’s first lockdown changed water habits – and risked shortages.The ConversationAlda-Vidal, C. and Iossifova, D. 2021. Failing water infrastructure in Malawi. UoM World Water Day
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