Dr Nikiwe Solomon is an early career researcher and lecturer working at the interface of science, technology, politics and urban river and water management in the Environmental Humanities South Centre and Anthropology Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focus is on how human and ecological well-being and issues of sustainability are entangled with politics, economics and technology. Nikiwe served as a research fellow in the Seed Box project, Feminist and Anticolonial Approaches to Environmental Humanities and Justice in the Global South with research focusing on flows – of currents (water and capital), toxics and cement. Nikiwe currently serves as Cape Town site PI for the project Critical Zones Africa: South and East Studies (CzASE Studies) which, for the next four years, aims to develop research on material flows in the Critical Zone that shape the everyday, and how tracing lived experience can inform governance for more habitable urban and peri-urban spaces.

Interests and Current Research Projects

Urban water systems; local and global food systems, neoliberalisation of the commons; sustainability; human and ecological well-being.

Co-editor of book with preliminary title of “Sons and Daughters of the Soil”. Other Co-authors include Associate Professor Lesley Green (Director of Environmental Humanities South, UCT) and Associate Professor Virginia MacKenny (School of Fine Art UCT)

Recent Publications

Book chapter

Solomon, N. 2016. The invisible visible and visible invisible: Zimbabwean migrant women. In F. Nyamnjoh and I Brudvig (eds) Johanesburg and their cell phones in Mobility, ICTs and Marginality in Africa. South Africa. HSRC Press.

Reports to the WRC

Amis, A.M and Solomon, N. 2016. Exploring the Value of Integrating Green Innovations in Business. Report to the Water Research Commission. WRC Report No. 2349/1/16. ISBN 978-1-4312-0769-5

Forthcoming

Co-editor of book with preliminary title of “Sons and Daughters of the Soil”. Other Co-authors include Associate Professor Lesley Green (Director of Environmental Humanities South, UCT) and Associate Professor Virginia MacKenny (School of Fine Art UCT)