Dr Nikiwe Solomon

EHS Academic Director & CZA South Africa PI

Nikiwe Solomon is an environmental anthropologist working at the interface of science, technology, politics and urban river and water management. Her PhD dissertation research The Kuils Multiple: An ethnography of an urban river in Cape Town explored the entanglement of the Kuils River with social, technical and political worlds in the context of urban planning in a time of climate change. Nikiwe has experience in consultancy and academic work, particularly focused on green and alternative economies and water socio-techno-political worlds. She has experience in the training of green and social small to medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as teaching courses on society, democracy, science, economics and politics in the Environmental humanities at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. 

Nikiwe served as a fellow in the Seed Box's 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.

Profile and publications: N Solomon on UCT AXL | N Solomon on ResearchGate