Faith Gara

Faith Gara holds an MPhil in Environmental Humanities( UCT), and Honours (Development Studies, UNISA).  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. The focal research question of her Ph.D. study asks “How governance that considers earth systems, infrastructural entanglements,  history, and state matters would assist with responding to the accelerated environmental and socioeconomic contamination and degradation?

Faith 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 environmental justice.

Faith Gara works as a  Project Manager in the FCDO-funded Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution (SMEP) programme. Faith is also a Canon Collins Scholar,  passionate about socially engaged scholarship and exploring avenues towards social inclusion and just transitions.