{"id":27783,"date":"2021-06-29T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=27783"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:39:30","slug":"welcome-to-the-department-dr-meera-karunananthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2021\/welcome-to-the-department-dr-meera-karunananthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Department Meera Karunananthan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Welcome to our Department Meera Karunananthan\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us in welcoming Meera Karunananthan who joins our department on July 1st, 2021 as a Lecturer in Human Geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meera\u2019s research on urban hydro-social conflicts is the culmination of more than a decade of solidarity and collaborative inquiry with water justice networks around the world. In her previous role as Director of the Blue Planet Project, she helped build connections between water justice struggles through research, popular education and collective organizing. Her research investigating the gendered and racialized impacts of urban drought management and climate adaptation policies in Cape Town, South Africa is guided by feminist, decolonial theory and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-27784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"971\" height=\"1220\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera.jpg 971w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera-160x201.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera-240x302.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera-768x965.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera-400x503.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/Meera-360x452.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Divya Vani Gunaratnam, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the department Meera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in welcoming Meera Karunananthan who joins our department on July 1st, 2021 as a Lecturer in Human Geography. Meera\u2019s research on urban hydro-social conflicts is the culmination of more than a decade of solidarity and collaborative inquiry with water justice networks around the world. 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