Andy Kusi-Appiah
I am a human geographer and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Geography & Environmental studies. I have also taught at the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies since 2005. My academic research interests are located within the domain of political ecology of water access and use in the global south. My research seeks to provide a clearer understanding of strategies that shape water access and use in urban informal settlements and how the resulting inequities shape their wellbeing.
The following are some of my published and unpublished articles:
Kusi-Appiah, A. & Mkandawire, P. (2022): Political ecology of household water security among the urban poor in Malawi, Journal of Wellbeing, Space and Society, (3).
Chunga, B. A., Kusi-Appiah, A., Masangano, C. & Mwamsamali, O. (2022): Environmental and social consequences for moving beyond archaic legislation and policy: delay and disjoint in water governance, Malawi’, Water Policy, 24(2), pp. 470–484. doi: 10.2166/wp.2022.257.
Chunga, B.A., Ungwe, A., & Kusi-Appiah, A. (2022). Impacts of coronavirus on water demand and supply in the Towns of Malawi: Recounting the compulsory handwashing preventative regulation. Nojiyeza, I., Shokane, A., Mensah, J. & Todd, I. (eds.), Conceptualization: Community Engagement, COVID 19 & Human & Social Sciences. Africa Century Editions Press (ACE Press).
Kusi-Appiah, A. & Mkandawire, P. (2023): Cultural influences of water use among poor women in urban Malawi, African Geographic Review (under review).
Kusi-Appiah, A. & Mkandawire, P. (2023). Ganyu labour and water access among the urban poor in Mzuzu City, Malawi. Journal of World Development Perspectives (under review).
Unpublished academic manuscripts
Kusi-Appiah, A. (2019): “Keeping a promise: Queen Elizabeth Scholars & Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation.” https://carleton.ca/qes/2019/andys-blogkeeping-a-promise-queen-elizabeth-scholars-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation/
Kusi-Appiah, A. (2019): “Protecting the ‘commons’ through informal governance systems: acknowledging the power of local knowledge.” https://carleton.ca/qes/2019/andys-blog-day-44protecting-the-commons-through-informal-governance-systems-acknowledging-the-power-of-local-knowledge/
Kusi-Appiah, A. (2019): “We have always come together to deal with our water issues: Informally organizing to create and sustain community resources.”
Kusi-Appiah, A. (2019): “The story of water is the story about life so let us talk about life: Interrogating water narratives in a neoliberal regime in Malawi.” https://carleton.ca/qes/2019/andys-blog-day-3-the-story-of-water-is-the-story-about-life/
Kusi-Appiah, A. (2019): “That complex whole’ came alive in a marriage ceremony: place, mother tongue and marriage.” https://carleton.ca/qes/2019/andys-blog-day-20-that-complex-whole-came-alive-in-chumaliru-when-two-consenting-adults-decided-to-get-married-and-form-a-family/