Faculty Profile

Sayd Randle is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Singapore Management University and a Fellow at SMU's Urban Institute. Trained as an environmental anthropologist, her research uses the tools of ethnography and the lens of political ecology to explore processes of urban environmental change. Broadly focused on climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, she studies how attempts to rework critical infrastructural systems transform material flows and urban lives, rearranging labour and power across the extended metropolitan landscape in the process. Her past work was grounded in the arid U.S. West and she is currently developing new projects in Singapore and Nepal. Her first book, Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles, was recently published by University of California Press.

Qualifications

• PhD in Environmental Studies and Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University, USA, 2018
• MPhil in Environment, Society & Development, University of Cambridge, UK, 2010
• BA in English, Williams College, USA, 2008

Research Interests

• Climate Adaptation
• Environmental Justice
• Infrastructure Transitions
• Water Politics
• Resource Temporalities
• Multispecies Ethnography