DOMAINES DE COMPETENCE

• Sociologie politique de l'eau / Political sociology of water
• Gouvernance environnementale / Environmental governance
• Justice sociale et environnementale / Social and environmental justice

RESUME

Les recherches de Luke portent sur les relations homme-environnement dans le contexte du développement mondial. Il s'intéresse particulièrement à la politique et à la gouvernance de l'eau: les politiques, les relations de pouvoir et les systèmes de signification qui informent et légitiment les accords de gouvernance de l'eau à plusieurs niveaux, qui aboutissent souvent à des résultats injustes et non durables. Ses recherches s'appuient sur des théories et des méthodes issues de la sociologie, de l'anthropologie, de la géographie et des sciences politiques. Il a également utilisé des méthodes participatives basées sur les arts et le numérique, et a travaillé en étroite collaboration avec des collègues des sciences physiques et de la terre. À ce jour, sa principale expérience régionale se situe en Afrique subsaharienne (Éthiopie, Malawi, Ouganda, Zimbabwe), parallèlement à des recherches en Inde, en Italie et au Royaume-Uni.

SUMMARY

Luke’s research engages critically with human-environment relations in the context of global development. He is particularly interested in the politics and governance of water: the policies, power relations and systems of meaning that inform and legitimise multi-level water governance arrangements, often resulting in unjust and unsustainable outcomes. His research draws upon theory and method from sociology, anthropology, geography, and political science. He has also employed participatory arts-based and digital methods, and has worked closely with colleagues from the physical and earth sciences. To date, his primary regional experience lies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe), alongside research in India, Italy and the UK.

FORMATION

Oct 2011 – March 2015, PhD in Sociology and Political Science, Cranfield University, UK
Oct 2009 – Sept 2010, MSc in Water and International Development, Cranfield University, UK
Oct 2006 – Sept 2007, MSc in Science, Culture and Communication, Bath University, UK
Oct 2003 – July 2006, BSc (Hons) Biology, Bath University, UK

PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS

Lien Orcid: 0000-0002-7482-506X
Lien Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luke-Whaley
Lien Academia: https://ird.academia.edu/LukeWhaley

• Articles

Whaley, L. 2022. Water governance research in a messy world: A review. Water Alternatives 15(2): 218-250.

Cleaver, F, Whaley, L. and Mwathunga, E. 2021. Worldviews and the everyday politics of community water management. Water Alternatives 14(3): 645-663.

Whaley, L., Cleaver F., and Mwathunga, E. 2021. Flesh and bones: Working with the grain to improve community management of water. World Development 138(1): 105346.

Mkandawire T, Mwathunga E, MacDonald AM, Bonsor HC, Banda S, Mleta P, Jumbo S, Ward J, Lapworth D, Chavula G , Gwengweya G, Whaley, L. and Lark, RM. 2020. An analysis of hand pump boreholes functionality in Malawi. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth:  102897.

Whaley, L., MacAllister, D. J., Bonsor, H., Mwathunga, E., Banda, S., Katusiime, F., Tadesse, Y., Cleaver, F. and Macdonald, A. 2019. Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa. Environmental Research Letters 14(8): 085013.

Cleaver, F. and Whaley, L. 2018. Understanding process, power, and meaning in Adaptive Governance: A Critical Institutional reading. Ecology and Society 23(2): 49.

Whaley, L. 2018. The Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) Framework. International Journal of the Commons 12(2): 137 – 161.

Whaley, L. 2018. Geographies of the self: Space, place, and scale revisited. Human Arenas 1(1): 21-36.

Whaley, L. and Cleaver, F. 2017. Can ‘functionality’ save the community management model of rural water supply? Water Resources and Rural Development 9(1): 56-66.

Whaley, L. and Weatherhead, E.K. 2016. Managing water through change and uncertainty: Comparing lessons from the adaptive comanagement literature to recent policy developments in England. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 59(10): 1775-1794.

Whaley, L. and Weatherhead, E.K. 2015. Using the politicized IAD Framework to analyse (adaptive) co-management: Farming and water resources in England. Ecology and Society 20(3): 43.

Whaley, L. and Weatherhead, E.K. 2015. Competition, conflict, and compromise: Three discourses used by irrigators in England and their implications for the comanagement of water resources. Water Alternatives 8(1): 800-819.

 Whaley, L. and Weatherhead, E.K. 2015. Power sharing in the English lowlands? The political economy of farmer participation in water governance. Water Alternatives 8(1): 820-843.

Whaley, L. and Weatherhead, E.K. 2014. An integrated approach to analyzing (adaptive) comanagement using the “politicized” IAD Framework. Ecology and Society 19(1): 10.

Whaley, L. 2014. Agriculture and water: Emerging perspectives on farmer cooperation and adaptive co-management. Outlook on Agriculture 43(4): 229-233.

Whaley, L. and Webster, J. 2011. The effectiveness and sustainability of two demand-driven sanitation and hygiene approaches in Zimbabwe. Journal of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Development 1(1): 20-36.

• Chapitres d’ouvrages

Whaley, L. 2022. Livelihoods and institutions, in Barnes, C. and Nunan, F. (Eds.) Livelihoods in the Global South. Routledge: London, UK.

• Communications (selected conferences and workshops)

2021 -Development Studies Association Conference – UK 28 June – 2 July
Paper presented – The ghost in the anti-politics machine: Religion, environment and development in Eastern Uganda

2020 - African Water Conference (Afwa2020) – Kampala, Uganda 24 – 27 Feb
Paper presented – Working with the grain to improve community management of water

2019  - Association of Social Anthropologists Conference - University of East Anglia, UK, 3 – 6 Sept
Paper presented – Furthering just development? Engaging local worldviews with development practice for the sustainable management of land and water in Africa

2019 -American Association of Geographers Annual Conference – Washington, DC, 3 – 7 April
Paper presented – Life as embodied water flow: Creating and following paths of least resistance

2018 -Sustainability and Development Conference – Michigan, USA, Nov 9-11
Paper presented – Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa

2018 -In Troubled Waters workshop – University of Hamburg, Germany, July 13-15
Paper presented – Pump action: Fragments from waterpoints

2017 -International Association for the Study of the Commons conference – Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 10-14
Paper presented – The Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) Framework

2017 -Development Studies Association workshop – University of Birmingham, May 12th
Paper presented – Understanding process, power, and meaning in Adaptive Governance

Selected webinars:

2018 -Rural Water Supply Network – Debating Real-World Community Based Management of Waterpoints
Lead presenter and discussant. Presentation available at: https://vimeo.com/264232221  

2018 -International Waters  – Groundwater and Equity: Exploring the Barriers to Access in the Global South, January 30th
Presentation: The Challenges of Researching Groundwater Governance

2017 -Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor – Social Science Methods, May 31st
Presentation: Social Science at the Society-Technology Interface

• Rapports techniques

Grantham, R. and Whaley, L. 2023. National capacity assessment of green social prescribing in England. London, UK, Department of Health and Social Care, in press.

Whaley, L., MacAllister, D.J, Fallas, H., Mwathunga, E., Banda, S., Katusiime, F., Cleaver, F., MacDonald, A. 2019. To what extent does community management ensure good functionality of groundwater supplies in rural Africa? In: 46th IAH Congress, Malaga, Spain, 23-27 Sept 2019

Kebede, S.; Fallas, H.C., MacAllister, D.J.., Tayitu, Y., Kefale, Z., Wolde, G., Whaley, E., Casey, V., MacDonald, A.M. 2019. Physical factors contributing to rural water supply functionality performance in Ethiopia. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 24pp. (OR/19/055)

Owor, M., Fallas, H.C., MacAllister, D.J., Okullo, J., Katusiime, G, Whaley, L., Banks, E., Casey, V., MacDonald, A.M. 2019. Physical factors contributing to rural water supply functionality performance in Uganda. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 24pp. (OR/19/056)

Mwathunga, E., Fallas, H.C., MacAllister, D.J., Mkandawire, T., Makuluni, P., Shaba, C., Jumbo, S., Moses, D., Whaley, L., Banks, E., Casey, V., MacDonald, A.M. 2019 Physical factors contributing to rural water supply functionality performance in Malawi. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 24pp. (OR/19/057)

Fallas, H.C., MacDonald, A.M., Casey, V., Kebede, S., Owor, M., Mwathunga, E., Calow, R., Cleaver, F., Cook, P., Fenner, R.A., Dessie, N., Yehualaeshet, T., Wolde, G., Okullo, J., Katusiime, F., Alupo, G., Berochan, G., Chavula, G., Banda, S., Mleta, P., Jumbo, S., Gwengwaya, G., Okot, P., Abraham, T., Kefale, Z., Ward, J., Lapworth, D., Wilson, P., Whaley, L., Ludi, E. 2018. UPGro Hidden Crisis Research Consortium: project approach for defining and assessing rural water supply functionality and levels of performance. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 27pp. (OR/18/060)

Whaley, L. Pump action: Fragments from water points. 2017. Research paper for the In Troubled Waters workshop, University of Hamburg, 13 – 14 July 2018

Owor, M., MacDonald, A.M., Bonsor, H.C., Okullo, J., Katusiime, F., Alupo, G., Berochan, G., Tumusiime, C., Lapworth, D., Whaley, L., Lark, R.M. 2017. UPGro Hidden Crisis Research Consortium. Survey 1 Country Report, Uganda. British Geological Survey, 18pp. (OR/17/029)

Mwathunga, E., MacDonald, A.M., Bonsor, H.C., Chavula, G., Banda, S., Mleta, P., Jumbo, S., Gwengweya, G., Ward, J., Whaley, L., Lark, R.M. 2017. UPGro Hidden Crisis Research Consortium. Survey 1 Country Report, Malawi. British Geological Survey, 19pp. (OR/17/046)

Wilson, P., Bonsor, H.C., MacDonald, A.M., Whaley, L., Carter, R.C., Casey, V. 2016. UPGRO Hidden Crisis Research consortium: unravelling past failures for future success in rural water supply: initial project approach for assessing rural water supply functionality and levels of performance. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 35pp. (OR/16/044)

Whaley, L. 2016. Institutionalising transboundary aquifer governance: A process of design or bricolage? (Working Paper No. 4). Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance.

• Vulgarisation

2022 -Debating land and water injustices, Bugwere FM, Budaka District, Uganda. Jan 19^th
Public radio show airing land and water stories created by research participants, debated by a live studio audience and members of the public via a phone call-in option.

2021 -Global Access to Water: Why is the UK government turning the taps off? July 8^th
Invited speaker at a public event organised by the London International Development Centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MA-d7GFY8E&t=39s

2020 -Study tour in Luwero district, Uganda, as part of the Hidden Crisis UPGRO project. Comprised government representatives from across Africa. Led the social science component of the tour.

2019 -Tales from the Global South, Festival of Social Science, Sheffield, Nov 7^th
Performed a story based on my research, after receiving training from a professional storyteller. See: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m500e6Eg2-mXzLRjreKMAkywxFVGVJhg/view