Harri Hudson

I am a Development Geographer navigating environmental change over time, toxicity of wastewater flows, and their impacts people's lived experiences in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh.

My thesis, titled Toxic Development: Waste Flows as a Tool of Dispossession and Urbanisation in Phnom Penh: Understanding the Spatial Politics of Waste Through the Lived Experiences of Urban Poor Environments in Phnom Penh  traces flows of floodwater, sewage, and garbage. My work explores how urban development trajectories has direct impact on waste management systems, urban dwellers' livelihoods, their sanitary conditions, and their rights to the city.

I have utilised focus groups and interviews with urban poor communities, scrap pickers, and civil society, conducted ethnographic exploration of canals and wetlands, and contribute to an exploration of resource flows and human impacts of urbanisation. My research has incorporated this ethnographic exploration of Phnom Penh with participatory maps created by urban poor communities, and juxtaposed this with mapping through GIS to reflect geodata collected in the field and from crowdsourced datasets of flooding and risk.

I have presented amongst the Disaster Trades panel of the RGS-IGB Annual International conference (2022), presented at the Build4People Project on behaviour change, in Cambodia (2023), volunteered and collaboration with Cambodian NGO STT (2022-2023), provided editing services and co-authored with Cambodian academics (2022-2023). I have co-served as a PhD representative for postgraduates (2021-2023) at departmental and doctoral school meetings.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrihudson/

I have lectured on Sanitation as part of GG3083, Cities and Development, and taught seminars in the following undergraduate courses:

GG2001/2 Module B: Human Geography Research Techniques

GG3081: Urbanisation and climate/environmental change

GG3083: Cities and Development