Kea  Gorden Personal Details Organization: Past Visiting Scholar Address: Centre for Civil Society City: Durban Postal Code: 4019 Country: South Africa Phone Number: 31 076 532 5280 E-mail Address: kealynng@yahoo.com Job Description Visiting Scholar Research Interest Hybrid forms of democracy; Water and sanitation backlogs and rural activism; Community participation in local governance and direct democracy, Myths of development and politics of development discourse, Third-Tiered Participatory Research Methodology Other information Kea Gorden is a graduate student in politics at University of California, Santa Cruz. After completing her candidacy requirements in June of 2005, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and has been using the 2005-2006 academic year to work on a research project on water and sanitation service delivery and community voice with the Human Science Research Council in Durban. She is now working on her own research involving the affects of direct democracy on water and sanitation service delivery amidst postcolonial political legacies, using case studies of communities in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces.  Back