Sarah L Smiley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2400630 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah L Smiley |
| PRENOMES | Sarah L |
| SOBRENOME | Smiley |
| ASSINATURA | SMILEY S L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kent State University at Salem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4181-517X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Tensions between Formal and Informal Water Providers
Sustainable Development Goal 6 seeks universal access to safe water. This is ambitious, especially for developing countries, and meeting it will require reliance on informal water suppliers alongside traditional formal suppliers. We adopt a case study approach to explore water production in Ghana’s Sunyani West District. We observe that privately managed mechanised boreholes have become a major source of water in the district, in terms of the num…
Covid-19 and water access in Sub-Saharan Africa
COVID-19 has brought global attention to the critical role of water in managing infectious outbreaks. Although Sub-Saharan Africa could become a COVID-19 hotspot, some are optimistic that given the right strategies and interventions the region can contain the pandemic. One such interventions is Ghana's directive to provide free water to domestic users for six months to ensure that water insecure households do not compromise appropriate hygiene an…
Heterogeneous water provision in Dar es Salaam
Urban waterscapes in developing world cities are notoriously fragmented, resembling archipelagos rather than continuous networks. Graham and Marvin's concept of splintering urbanism links the collapse of infrastructure networks to this fragmentation. Yet this idea has been criticized for suggesting the absence of these networks is a sign of failed modernity in Southern cities such as Dar es Salaam. Urban political ecology illustrates how social, …
Coping with Floods in Pikine, Senegal
African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal—located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region—has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate drainage. The goal of this research was to assess household experiences of floods through in-depth qualitative interviews in one area of Pikine. A total of 44 households were interviewed on the economi…
Water Availability and Reliability in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s water landscape is unjust, inequitable, and uneven. Water rationing and electricity outages affect water availability alongside an overall shortfall in water supply. Using household surveys and interviews, this paper shows that a majority of respondents lack a consistently reliable source of water. To cope with poor access, households alter their daily routines, consume less water, and identify and use back-up sources of…
Mapping to Support Fine Scale Epidemiological Cholera Investigations
The cartographic challenge in many developing world environments suffering a high disease burden is a lack of granular environmental covariates suitable for modeling disease outcomes. As a result, epidemiological questions, such as how disease diffuses at intra urban scales are extremely difficult to answer. This paper presents a novel geospatial methodology, spatial video, which can be used to collect and map environmental covariates, while also…
Comparing colonial water provision in British and French Africa
Navigating the city
How is qualitative research in geography performed? What are some considerations relevant to qualitative research in the field? Answering these questions requires reflections on the role of positionality and gender in cultural geography research. This paper explores the various ways that insider/outsider status and gender impact urban fieldwork. In doing so, it demonstrates that the issues confronting researchers are universal regardless of field…
Segregation
Researching Housing, Water, and Sanitation in the British and Tanzania National Archives
The passage of Britain’s 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act increased the levels of funding for social welfare projects such as housing in its colonies and mandates. This state of the archives article provides an overview of holdings on African housing construction in Dar es Salaam found in the British and Tanzania National Archives. It highlights archival records that outline housing research, official development plans, proposed housing …
Mental maps, segregation, and everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has a long history as a segregated city. Starting in 1891 the German and then later the British colonial government enacted a series of building ordinances that outlined the styles of construction allowed within different areas of the city. Although these policies applied only to the structures themselves, ultimately they served to divide the city into European/Expatriate, Asian, and African areas. In spite of official at…
A History of Urban Planning in Two West African Colonial Capitals
Expatriate everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Under German colonial rule and the British mandate, Dar es Salaam was a racially segregated city. The means of segregation were a series of building ordinances that established varying standards of construction in the city's neighborhoods. A result of these ordinances was the concentration of expatriates—those people living outside their home country—in two areas of the city: the City Center and the Msasani Peninsula. Using qualitative survey and…
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion Sarah L. Smiley (bio) and Francis T. Koti (bio) Introduction The five papers in this special issue were part of two sessions on Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion at the meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2009. In many ways, Las Vegas was the perfect venue for this discussion. Exclusion is basically concerned with binaries, and Las Vegas is very much a …
The Most Segregated City in America
(2008). 'The Most Segregated City in America': City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charles E. Connerly. Urban Geography: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 402-403
Historical Geography Research at the Tanzania National Archives
This article describes my successes and failures in conducting historical geography research at Tanzania's National Archives. At times searching for and accessing files was confusing and time-consuming, but I uncovered documents that helped me contextualize and ground data collected from complementary qualitative methodologies. During my research, I utilized all of the indexes available to researchers. Drawing from my experiences, I offer advice …
A History of Urban Planning in Two West African Colonial Capitals
Expatriate everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Under German colonial rule and the British mandate, Dar es Salaam was a racially segregated city. The means of segregation were a series of building ordinances that established varying standards of construction in the city's neighborhoods. A result of these ordinances was the concentration of expatriates—those people living outside their home country—in two areas of the city: the City Center and the Msasani Peninsula. Using qualitative survey and…
Mental maps, segregation, and everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has a long history as a segregated city. Starting in 1891 the German and then later the British colonial government enacted a series of building ordinances that outlined the styles of construction allowed within different areas of the city. Although these policies applied only to the structures themselves, ultimately they served to divide the city into European/Expatriate, Asian, and African areas. In spite of official at…
Navigating the city
How is qualitative research in geography performed? What are some considerations relevant to qualitative research in the field? Answering these questions requires reflections on the role of positionality and gender in cultural geography research. This paper explores the various ways that insider/outsider status and gender impact urban fieldwork. In doing so, it demonstrates that the issues confronting researchers are universal regardless of field…
Heterogeneous water provision in Dar es Salaam
Urban waterscapes in developing world cities are notoriously fragmented, resembling archipelagos rather than continuous networks. Graham and Marvin's concept of splintering urbanism links the collapse of infrastructure networks to this fragmentation. Yet this idea has been criticized for suggesting the absence of these networks is a sign of failed modernity in Southern cities such as Dar es Salaam. Urban political ecology illustrates how social, …
Comparing colonial water provision in British and French Africa
Researching Housing, Water, and Sanitation in the British and Tanzania National Archives
The passage of Britain’s 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act increased the levels of funding for social welfare projects such as housing in its colonies and mandates. This state of the archives article provides an overview of holdings on African housing construction in Dar es Salaam found in the British and Tanzania National Archives. It highlights archival records that outline housing research, official development plans, proposed housing …
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion Sarah L. Smiley (bio) and Francis T. Koti (bio) Introduction The five papers in this special issue were part of two sessions on Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion at the meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2009. In many ways, Las Vegas was the perfect venue for this discussion. Exclusion is basically concerned with binaries, and Las Vegas is very much a …
Historical Geography Research at the Tanzania National Archives
This article describes my successes and failures in conducting historical geography research at Tanzania's National Archives. At times searching for and accessing files was confusing and time-consuming, but I uncovered documents that helped me contextualize and ground data collected from complementary qualitative methodologies. During my research, I utilized all of the indexes available to researchers. Drawing from my experiences, I offer advice …
The Most Segregated City in America
(2008). 'The Most Segregated City in America': City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charles E. Connerly. Urban Geography: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 402-403
A History of Urban Planning in Two West African Colonial Capitals
Expatriate everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Under German colonial rule and the British mandate, Dar es Salaam was a racially segregated city. The means of segregation were a series of building ordinances that established varying standards of construction in the city's neighborhoods. A result of these ordinances was the concentration of expatriates—those people living outside their home country—in two areas of the city: the City Center and the Msasani Peninsula. Using qualitative survey and…
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion Sarah L. Smiley (bio) and Francis T. Koti (bio) Introduction The five papers in this special issue were part of two sessions on Africa’s Spaces of Exclusion at the meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2009. In many ways, Las Vegas was the perfect venue for this discussion. Exclusion is basically concerned with binaries, and Las Vegas is very much a …
Researching Housing, Water, and Sanitation in the British and Tanzania National Archives
The passage of Britain’s 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act increased the levels of funding for social welfare projects such as housing in its colonies and mandates. This state of the archives article provides an overview of holdings on African housing construction in Dar es Salaam found in the British and Tanzania National Archives. It highlights archival records that outline housing research, official development plans, proposed housing …
Mental maps, segregation, and everyday life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has a long history as a segregated city. Starting in 1891 the German and then later the British colonial government enacted a series of building ordinances that outlined the styles of construction allowed within different areas of the city. Although these policies applied only to the structures themselves, ultimately they served to divide the city into European/Expatriate, Asian, and African areas. In spite of official at…
Navigating the city
How is qualitative research in geography performed? What are some considerations relevant to qualitative research in the field? Answering these questions requires reflections on the role of positionality and gender in cultural geography research. This paper explores the various ways that insider/outsider status and gender impact urban fieldwork. In doing so, it demonstrates that the issues confronting researchers are universal regardless of field…
Segregation
Water Availability and Reliability in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s water landscape is unjust, inequitable, and uneven. Water rationing and electricity outages affect water availability alongside an overall shortfall in water supply. Using household surveys and interviews, this paper shows that a majority of respondents lack a consistently reliable source of water. To cope with poor access, households alter their daily routines, consume less water, and identify and use back-up sources of…
Mapping to Support Fine Scale Epidemiological Cholera Investigations
The cartographic challenge in many developing world environments suffering a high disease burden is a lack of granular environmental covariates suitable for modeling disease outcomes. As a result, epidemiological questions, such as how disease diffuses at intra urban scales are extremely difficult to answer. This paper presents a novel geospatial methodology, spatial video, which can be used to collect and map environmental covariates, while also…
Comparing colonial water provision in British and French Africa
Coping with Floods in Pikine, Senegal
African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal—located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region—has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate drainage. The goal of this research was to assess household experiences of floods through in-depth qualitative interviews in one area of Pikine. A total of 44 households were interviewed on the economi…
Covid-19 and water access in Sub-Saharan Africa
COVID-19 has brought global attention to the critical role of water in managing infectious outbreaks. Although Sub-Saharan Africa could become a COVID-19 hotspot, some are optimistic that given the right strategies and interventions the region can contain the pandemic. One such interventions is Ghana's directive to provide free water to domestic users for six months to ensure that water insecure households do not compromise appropriate hygiene an…
Heterogeneous water provision in Dar es Salaam
Urban waterscapes in developing world cities are notoriously fragmented, resembling archipelagos rather than continuous networks. Graham and Marvin's concept of splintering urbanism links the collapse of infrastructure networks to this fragmentation. Yet this idea has been criticized for suggesting the absence of these networks is a sign of failed modernity in Southern cities such as Dar es Salaam. Urban political ecology illustrates how social, …
Tensions between Formal and Informal Water Providers
Sustainable Development Goal 6 seeks universal access to safe water. This is ambitious, especially for developing countries, and meeting it will require reliance on informal water suppliers alongside traditional formal suppliers. We adopt a case study approach to explore water production in Ghana’s Sunyani West District. We observe that privately managed mechanised boreholes have become a major source of water in the district, in terms of the num…
Geography (14 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Colonialism (7 obras) · Tanzania (7 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Dar es salaam (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Environmental planning (5 obras)