Contact
Phone: +49 06341 280-31226
Mail: l.silvanovoa (at) rptu.de
Current research projects
- I use the Case Study as the general methodological strategy in combination with three actor-centered approaches. For the study of the conflicts, I use an actor-based conflict analysis, consisting of three steps: actor mapping, analysis of socio-political and economic context, analysis of conflict drivers and effects. To study the land and water use practices from an everyday perspective I use the praxiography methodological approach. This approach born from the theory of practice and the use of ethnographic methods is aimed at revealing the implicit or tacit knowledge that gives meaning to them, which helps to understand how these practices make sense for the actors who carry them out. To understand how water and land use practices related to the dynamic socio-political and economic context of the country, I use a biographical approach.
- The main data collection tools used are stakeholder interviews, archive review and structured observations.
Personal
Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L.M.; Kemerink-Seyoum, J.S.; and Zwarteveen, M. (2019). Water infrastructure always in-the-making: distributing water and authority through the water supply network in Moamba, Mozambique; Water 2019, 11, 1926; doi:10.3390/w11091926.
Kemerink-Seyoum, J.S.; Chitata, T.; Domínguez Guzmán, C.; Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L.M.; Margreet Z. Zwarteveen (2019). Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance; Water 2019, 11, 1670; doi:10.3390/w11081670.
Kemerink-Seyoum, J.S.; Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L.M.; Weisa Batega, D.; Paul, R. Caught in the middle? Access to water in the rural to urban transformation of Bushenyi-Ishaka, Uganda. Forthcoming.
Silva-Novoa, L.M. (2014) La fiesta de Champería en San Pedro de Casta como espacio de legitimación de la sociotecnología andina. EN: Patrimonio, Identidad y Memoria; Lima: Instituto de Investigación del Patrimonio Cultural de la Universidad Ricardo Palma; p. 339-356.