Kathryn FURLONG
Kathryn Furlong
- Professeure titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de géographie
Complexe des sciences office B-6013
- Chercheuse
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Centre d'études et de recherches internationales
Pavillon 3744, rue Jean-Brillant
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PhD
2007
, Géographie humaine , Université de Colombie-Britannique (Canada)
Affiliations
- Titulaire – Chaire de recherche du Canada en eau et urbanisation
- Membre – CÉRIUM — Centre d'études et de recherches internationales
Education Programs
- Humanities Fundamental and Applied Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
- Humanities Fundamental and Applied Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
- Fundamental and Applied Sciences Life Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
- Fundamental and Applied Sciences Life Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
- Fundamental and Applied Sciences Life Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
- Humanities Social Sciences Economics and Politics
- Economics and Politics Humanities Social Sciences
- Humanities Social Sciences Economics and Politics
- Literature and Languages Humanities Social Sciences
- Fundamental and Applied Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development Humanities
- Fundamental and Applied Sciences
- PhD in Geography – Humanities Fundamental and Applied Sciences Environment and Sustainable Development
Courses
- GEO1315 Terrain 1 en géographie
- GEO6204 Écologie politique et enjeux environnementaux
Areas of Expertise
- Economic geography
- Urban geography
- Colombia
- Canada
- Political ecology
- Science and technology studies
- Networks
- Water
- Water governance
- Environmental issues
- Urban environment
- Public utilities
Student supervision Expand all Collapse all
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Excavating International Accounting Norms to Improve Infrastructure Financing for Just Transitions Projet de recherche au Canada / 2025 - 2028
Centre de Recherche en Éthique ( CRÉ ) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2028
Centre de Recherche en Éthique ( CRÉ ) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2028
NSERC CREATE in Science Leadership for Global Sustainability (LEADS/LIEN-D) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2027
Projet SUSTENTO : Enhancing the resilience of alternative food systems in informal settings in Latin America and the Caribbean through bottom-up initiatives in the built environment Projet de recherche à l’international / 2021 - 2025
Projet SUSTENTO. Enhancing the resilience of alternative food systems in informal settings in Latin America and the Caribbean through bottom-up initiatives in the built environment. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2025
L’identité hydro-québécoise : une histoire interprovinciale. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2022
Historicizing southern urbanisms: Water supply development in Colombia 1910 - 2014 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2022
Chaire du Canada - Urban, Water and Utility Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2021
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN ETHIQUE (CRE) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2021
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN ETHIQUE (CRE) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2020
RéseauLab: a novel social-ecological innovation system for transformative change towards sustainability Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2019
THE PUBLIC SHAREHOLDER : THE ETHICS, REGULATION, AND RISK OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMERCIALIZATION (WORKSHOP) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2016
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN WATER GOVERNANCE Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2016
L'ACTIONNAIRE MUNICIPAL : L'EXPERIENCE COLOMBIENNE AVEC LA PRESTATION DE L'EAU PAR LES ENTREPRISES MUNICIPALES Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2015
THE MUNICIPAL SHAREHOLDER : AN INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC LIMITED CORPORATION FOR WATER SUPPLY Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2015
L'ACTIONNAIRE MUNICIPAL: L'EXPÉRIENCE COLOMBIENNE AVEC LA PRESTATION DE L'EAU PAR LES ENTREPRISES MUNICIPALES Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2013
THE MUNICIPAL SHAREHOLDER: AN INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC LIMITED CORPORATION FOR WATER SUPPLY Projet de recherche au Canada / 2010 - 2013
Publications Expand all Collapse all
Livres
Verdy M, Patiño Sanchez C, Furlong K (2026) Maîtres chez eux: Churchill Falls, la fondation d’Hydro-Québec au Labrador. PUM Montréal.
Camargo, A., Roca-Servat, D., & Furlong, K. (Eds.). (2022). Los urbanismos del agua en Colombia. Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. https://repository.upb.edu.co/handle/20.500.11912/10348
Furlong, K. (2016). Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Articles récents
Furlong K (2026) Crisis beyond the exceptional: the latent, everyday nature of the crisis perpetual. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography n/a(n/a).
Furlong K (2025) Debt/growth infrastructures: Financialization and state capitalism in Medellín. Economy and Society 54(4), 716-740.
Perdomo, J; Furlong, K. (2022). Producing mining territories: The centrality of small-scale gold mining, Colombia from colonization to the present. Geoforum.
Furlong, K. (2022). Geographies of infrastructure III: Infrastructure with Chinese characteristics. Progress in Human Geography, 46(3), 915-925.
Furlong K (2021) Geographies of Infrastructure II: Concrete, Cloud and Layered (in)Visibilities. Progress in Human Geography 45(1): 190-198. 10.1177/0309132520923098.
Furlong K (2020) Geographies of Infrastructure 1: Economies. Progress in Human Geography 44(3): 572-582.
Furlong, K. (2022). Splintering Urbanism @ 20: Reengaging Contradiction, Confinement, and Consumption. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(1), 153-159. doi:10.1080/10630732.2021.2004066
Furlong KM (2021) Full-Cost Recovery = Debt Recovery: How Infrastructure Financing Models Lead to Overcapacity, Debt, and Disconnection. WIREs Water 8(2): e1503. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1503.
Furlong K (2020) Trickle-Down Debt: Infrastructure, Development and Financialization, Medellín 1960‐2013. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45(2): 406-419.
Kooy M, Furlong K and Lamb V (2019) Nature Based Solutions for Urban Water Management in Asian Cities: Integrating Vulnerability into Sustainable Design. International Development Planning Review 42(3): 1-10. 10.3828/idpr.2019.17.
Furlong K, Roca-Servat D, Acevedo-Guerrero T, et al. (2019) Everyday Practices, Everyday Water: From Foucault to Rivera-Cusicanqui (with a Few Stops in between). Water 11(10): 2046. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102046.
Furlong K, Acevedo Guerrero T, Arias J, et al. (2018) Rethinking Water Corporatisation: A 'Negotiation Space' for Public and Private Interests, Colombia (1910-2000). Water Alternatives 11(1): 187-208.
Furlong K and Kooy M (2017) Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41(6): 888-903.
Furlong K, Carré M-N and Acevedo Guerrero T (2017) Urban Service Provision: Insights from Pragmatism and Ethics. Environment and Planning A 49(12): 2800-2812. 10.1177/0308518x17734547.
Bonilla C and Furlong K (2017) La Régionalisation des Services en Eau : Une Solution Pour Les Petites Villes Au Sud ? Étude de Cas Colombienne. Flux: Cahiers scientifiques internationaux Réseaux et territoires 107(1): 36-52.
Acevedo Guerrero T, Furlong K and Arias J (2016) Complicating Neoliberalization and Decentralization: The Non-Linear Experience of Colombian Water Supply, 1909–2012. International Journal of Water Resources Development 32(2): 172-188. 10.1080/07900627.2015.1026434.
Autres articles (sélection)
Furlong K (2015) Water and the Entrepreneurial City: The Territorial Expansion of Public Utility Companies from Colombia and The Netherlands. Geoforum 58: 195-207.
Furlong K (2014) STS Beyond the “Modern Infrastructure Ideal”: Extending Theory by Engaging with Infrastructure Challenges in the South. Technology in Society 38(August): 139-147.
Furlong K (2013) The Dialectics of Equity: Consumer Citizenship and the Extension of Water Supply in Medellín, Colombia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(5): 1176-1192.
Furlong K (2011) Small Technologies, Big Change: Rethinking Infrastructure through STS and Geography Progress in Human Geography 35(4): 460-482.
Furlong K (2006) Hidden Theories, Troubled Waters: International Relations, the 'Territorial Trap', and the Southern African Development Community's Transboundary Waters. Political Geography 25: 438-458.
Chapitres d'ouvrages
Furlong K (2023) Infrastructure. In: Lees L, Demeritt D (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. 208-212. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Furlong K, Verdy M and Uribe A (2021) Resources in a World of Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Dividing, Circumscribing, Confining. In: Himley M, Havice E and Valdivia G (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 141-151.
Arias Castaño JA and Furlong K (2020) Full Cost Recovery Meets Crisis: Guaranteeing Access to Water under Covid-19 in Colombia. In: McDonald DA, Spronk S and Chavez D (eds) Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings. Kingston, ON: Municipal Services Project, pp. 329-346.
Numéros spéciaux
Zwarteveen M, Schwartz K, Acevedo-Guerrero T, Furlong K (2019) Doing Water Provision, Distribution and Conservation: A Practice-Based Approach to Water Governance. Water. 11 (10).
Kooy M, Furlong K (2019) Bottled Water: Explanations of a Global Trend. WIREs-Water. e1385
Furlong K (2016) The Public Shareholder: The Commercialization and Internationalization of Publicly Owned Utility Corporations. Utilities Policy. 40
Recensions de livres
Furlong, K. (2022). Spacing Sovereign Debt. Dialogues in Human Geography. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20438206221075689
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