Taryn Pereira

Rhodes University | RU · Environmental Learning Research Centre - One Ocean Hub

The Pluriversity for stuck humxns is an exploratory dialogue between early career researchers and established researchers. It responds to the concern that dominant forms of knowledge production are not assisting us to move towards life affirming ways of being and that alternatives are possible. The production of this chapter is one of many new acts...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pre-existing vulnerability of the small-scale fisheries sector in South Africa and exposed the structural inequalities and ongoing injustices facing this sector. The failures within the fisheries governance and management system linked to the slow pace of implementing the Small-scale Fisheries Policy of 201...

Symbolic, cultural and spiritual meanings of the oceans, whilst different depending on positionality, are important aspects of understanding humans’ relationship with the oceans. Currently in South Africa, cultural, social and spiritual meanings of the oceans are given little consideration in the rush for the Blue Economy and ocean governance frame...

In this article, we centre the knowledge and contributions of environmental justice social movements towards transformations for sustainability in Transdisciplinary Research. Scholar activists within research teams can help bridge networks of scholars with social movement networks to build strongly engaged and relational transdisciplinary research....

As part of their Blue Economy strategy, the South African government has granted exploration permits covering 98% of the country’s EEZ. Small-scale fishers and their partners in South Africa have achieved two successful court cases in 2022, halting seismic surveys by multinational companies exploring for oil and gas. Small-scale fishers have led a...

This paper describes the inner workings of the Changing Practice course for water activists, and our reflexive facilitation practice via two learning moments presented in narrative style (Bennett, 2015; Hamdan, 2009; Houston, 2015; Quaye, 2007) 3. We describe how these two learning moments led to significant changes towards a more cognitively just...

The last few years have seen one of the most severe droughts in recent times in the southern African region, and news headlines are increasingly full of warnings about heavy storms, fires and floods.There is no doubt that extreme hydro-meteorological events,and their multiple and potentially disastrous impacts,are at the forefront of the public con...

In a context of profound inequality and rampant unregulated environmental destruction, this project recognises the important work that community based activists are doing to monitor and challenge the environmental injustices occurring in their communities. It also recognises the significant obstacles to this work being ‘seen’ and ‘heard’. The overa...

Municipalities are well positioned to support adaptation of vulnerable people to climate change; however, they seldom integrate climate change into their planning for social development. The building of adaptive capacity for sustainable adaptation requires that municipalities understand and mainstream climate change into their plans, and develop co...

This is a poster tracking the qualities and processes of cognitive justice in transgressive learning processes. This research process is part of a bigger research programme on T-learning funded through the ISSC situated at the ELRC, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

The South African Water Caucus uses its position as a civil society organisation to raise issues and ask questions which government officials, bound in a hierarchy, are not able to. It insists on seeing our relationship as humans with nature as something more than a collection of resources, but as consisting of eco-systems, of life, and of spirit....

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FzKzKM8aMe5DZT34Bcqz/full - We facilitated the development of a co-designed and locally led community biodiversity inventory (CBI) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, using nine design principles for participatory action research that promoted inclusivity. A questionnaire survey toward the end of the process found s...

This report provides an overview of the organisational framework in which the social learning component of this project will be conducted, as well as an overview of the first social learning module, the participants and the context of the case studies.

In South Africa, the level of water service is symbolic of class; those who have taps, baths and flush toilets are socially and geographically divided from those who walk to collect water of dubious quality in a bucket. Even those who move into formal housing with piped water are in for a shock. As a water scarce country, further threatened by clim...

Climate change will impact on water service provision, yet it is not integrated into water sector policies and plans. This paper unpacks some of the reasons for this disjuncture: the complex and overwhelming challenge of universal water provision even in the absence of climate change; and the real threat that climate change poses to predictable wat...

Selling traditional craft products made from fibrous plants is an important source of income for economically vulnerable rural women. In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Cyperus textilis and Juncus kraussii have been used for centuries to make products of functional and cultural importance, such as sleeping mats and baskets. In the former...