Companies equipped with modern technology, such as with the capability to purify water, can control and shape what is understood as the truth about water in rural villages in the global South. Through this, rural villages are made dependent on private companies related to water supply, Yewondwossen Tesfaye states in his doctoral dissertation “Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinking water and rainwater practices”.

Unequal access to drinking water in different geographical contexts is embedded in political, racialized, classed, and gendered hierarchies. Technologies and innovations aimed at solving drinking water problems only tend to gloss over the bigger issues.

A group of students, who presented a solution to how the indigenous community Wayuu in South America could secure access to safe water for hand washing and hygiene, have won the science competition organised by the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics.

Varumärkesaktivism blir allt vanligare när företag väljer att ta ställning i samhällsfrågor, men aktivismen är inte riskfri. I en ny studie har forskare analyserat hur det växtbaserade livsmedelsföretaget Oatly hanterade den kritikstorm som följde efter företagets uppmärksammade mjölkkampanj i Finland.