Ana Elisa Cascão
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Research
The current research relates to the management and allocation of international water resources in the Middle East and Northeast Africa, through the lens of International Political Economy. The research project covers the international, regional and national dimensions of the water resources management in Eastern Nile Basin (includes Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia). Analysis crisscrosses economic, political, environmental, social, technological, and cultural issues dialectically integrated in the research project, in order to critically assess the cases of conflict and cooperation over the Nile shared water resources.
The researcher is directly involved in an ongoing constructive theoretical debate being promoted by the KCL/SOAS Water Research Unit focussing on power relations in international river basins. Critical concepts as Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony applied to regional water resources are jointly being developed. The case of the Nile Basin is being taken as a pilot-study. The researcher is currently working on a new theoretical approach devoted to hydro-counter-hegemony.
The researcher is directly involved in an ongoing constructive theoretical debate being promoted by the KCL/SOAS Water Research Unit focussing on power relations in international river basins. Critical concepts as Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony applied to regional water resources are jointly being developed. The case of the Nile Basin is being taken as a pilot-study. The researcher is currently working on a new theoretical approach devoted to hydro-counter-hegemony.
Biography
Ana Cascão was born in Cantanhede, Portugal in 1978. She had been an undergraduate student of International Relations and completed her Master in African Studies in Lisbon. She had been working as research assistant in the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Lisbon, collaborating in research projects related with African politics, European affairs and anti-globalisation social movements. Currently collaborates with this Institute and the two Portuguese Centres of African Studies (Lisbon and Porto).
Other Interests
International Relations Theories, Critical Theory, Horn of Africa politics, Contemporary conflicts, International financial institutions
Membership:
KCL/SOAS Water Research Unit, CEA-Lisbon, CEA-Porto, Portuguese Association of Political Science
Membership:
KCL/SOAS Water Research Unit, CEA-Lisbon, CEA-Porto, Portuguese Association of Political Science
