Selected Publications

Wittmer, J., Prouse, C., & Arefin, M. R. (2025). Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0 (0): Online First. 

Arefin, M.R., Prouse, C., Wittmer, J. et al. (2025). Making waves: A justice-centered framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance. Water Research, 268 (B): 122747.

Wittmer, J. & Qureshi, M. (2023). Navigating the emotion-embodiment-language nexus in international research: Stories from a foreign researcher and local interpreter. Emotion, Space and Society, 49: 100990.

Wittmer, J. (2023). “I salute them for their hard work and contribution”: Inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India. Urban Geography, 44(9): 1909-1930.

Wittmer, J. (2022). Dirty work in the clean city: An embodied urban political ecology of women informal recyclers’ work in the ‘clean city’. Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 6(2): 1343-1365.

Wittmer, J. (2022). Smart city technologies post serious threats to women waste workers in India. The Conversation, May 19.

Wittmer, J. (2021). “We live and we do this work:” Women waste pickers’ experiences of wellbeing in Ahmedabad, India. World Development, Vol 140: 105253.

Wittmer, J. & Parizeau, K. (2018). Informal recyclers’ health inequities in Vancouver, BC. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 28(2): 321-343.

Wittmer, J. & Parizeau, K. (2016). Surviving neoliberal urbanism: Informal recyclers’ geographies of survival in Vancouver, BC. Applied Geography, 66: 92-99.