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Faith Gara

  • University of Cape Town, PhD Anthropology
 

Biography

Faith Gara is an environmental anthropologist and holds an MPhil in Environmental Humanities. Her PhD study , titled: The socio-techno-eco-material processes of contamination in the False Bay Critical Zone,  forms part of a larger project: “Critical Zones Africa: South and East Studies (CzASE Studies)”, which aims to explore politically sustainable avenues towards environmental governance, focusing on habitability, health and wellbeing. Faith is passionate about valuing local knowledge through participatory projects. She believes it is essential to understand problems, effects and impacts from people’s experiences and allow them to inform interventions that align with lived realities. She aims to use  her research to contribute to an environmental governance discourse that advances social justice  and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approaches.