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Joined June 2021
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University of Basel@UniBasel_en15 Nov 2024
.@snsf_ch awards Starting Grants to outstanding young researchers in Switzerland. This year, five of the successful researchers plan to carry out their projects at the University of Basel. @nanaborsa @JaninaGrabs @LeanzaMatthias @LuregnL @liyuping927 unibas.ch/en/News-Events/New…

SNSF awards six Starting Grants to researchers at the University of Basel

How can we age more healthily? And how can supply chains for coffee, cocoa and palm oil become more sustainable? Researchers at the University of Basel are addressing these and other questions with...

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📣 New Publication out! Nature conservation, borders and violence along the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia: doi.org/10.1080/08865655.202… @emmanuelmogend1

Nature conservation, borders and violence along the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia in the...

This paper investigates the intricate dynamics of the Chobe River borderland between Namibia and Botswana, a border marked by its dual identity as both a national boundary and a conservation fronti...

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Yay! Congratulations and thanks for giving the opportunity to contribute! 🫏🫏
Léa Lacan@lacan_lea9 Aug 2024
Our special issue "Multispecies Encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa" is out! co-edited together with Hauke Vehrs and Michael Bollig and with articles by @WildPasts_, @LuregnL, @romievonkie, @JessJLavelle, & others! tandfonline.com/toc/rasa20/4…

Anthropology Southern Africa

Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa. Volume 47, Issue 2 of Anthropology Southern Africa

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ESEH@esehtweets6 May 2024
📢***FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY*** eseh.org/eseh-gale-non-resid… ESEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowships in Digital Environmental History for early-career scholars #envhist #digitalhumanities #DigitalHistory
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It's official! I've been awarded an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship for my project "Past Natures for Future Conservation (PANATURE): Current Narratives and Historical Human-Wildlife-Land Relations in Southern Africa and the European Alps.” #PANATURE #ConservationHumanities #GSSC
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return to the source@tschukutschuku7 Feb 2024
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Check out the new open-access volume "Planetary Hinterlands - Extraction, Abandonment and Care" - with wonderful contributions by Pamila Gupta, @sindi_leigh, Sarah Nuttall, Esther Peeren, myself and many more...! link.springer.com/book/10.10…

Planetary Hinterlands

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We're excited to announce the Global History and Culture Centre's Autumn Programme, kicking off today with the book launch of Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson's "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (2023). Find the full calendar of events at warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo…
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📢📢📢 New blog out now! @KalvelageLinus draws on his extensive research on tourism in communal conservancies Zambezi Region to argue that photo and hunting tourism combined do not generate enough income to drive rural development. This is blog 1 of 2! conservationnamibia.com/blog…

Namibian conservancies need to go beyond tourism for rural development

Dr Kalvelage shares insights from his research in the Zambezi Region on how much money from tourism remains in the region and where it goes.

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‘The Fish That Sees Its Water Is Getting Shallow Cannot Be Stranded’ I have been planning this exhibition for several years & I’m glad that it is finally opening next week. 30th June, 18h00 @ The Project Room
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Finally, after many years of wonderful collaboration and research our edited volume on the Lower !Garib / Orange River is out - Thanks to all who contributed! You can download the pdf for free, printed verisons will follow soon. transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8…

The Lower !Garib – Orange River

Fresh perspectives on the history and societies of an under-researched Southern African border region.

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Léa Lacan@lacan_lea31 May 2023
Great panel at #ECAS2023 on the role of state borders and species boundaries in conservation organized by @LuregnL and @MogendeEmmanuel !
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Check out our #ECAS2023 panel “Reconfiguring the role of state borders and species boundaries in nature conservation” bringing together state borders and species boundaries and their contested impact on multi-species futures #CallForPapers @emmanuelmogend1 nomadit.co.uk/conference/eca…

Envi08: Reconfiguring the role of state borders and species boundaries in nature conservation

The panel brings together conceptualization of state borders and species boundaries by examining the historical links of environmentalism and African borders

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***We are hiring*** Ab 1. September 2022 oder nach Vereinbarung besetzen wir eine Stelle als Hilfsassistent*in (6 Stunden/Woche) für unsere Geschäftsstelle. zasb.unibas.ch/de/news/detai…

Job: Hilfsassistent*in in der ZASB-Geschäftsstelle

Ab dem 1. September 2022 oder nach Vereinbarung besetzt das Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel eine Stelle als Hilfsassistent*in (6 Stunden/Woche).

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Already number 9! Come join our Namibian Research Day on 1st October 2022 in Basel zasb.unibas.ch/en/news/news-… @ZASBasel @unam_na

Call: 9th Namibia Research Day

Basler Afrika Bibliographien and ZASB, together with the University of Namibia, invite students and scholars working on Namibia to participate in the 9th Namibia Research Day (1 October 2022)....

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Aaron Ross@aaronross626 Apr 2022
African Parks has always denied conducting military-style operations against jihadists in Benin. But its own confidential incident report describes how it scrambled to "organise an offensive operation to neutralise" a dozen suspected militants in 2020. reuters.com/world/africa/par…

Insight: Park rangers enter fray in West Africa's battle with militants

When a dozen suspected Islamist militants from a neighbouring country were spotted riding motorcycles through the W National Park in northern Benin armed with AK-47 assault rifles, park rangers...

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Nature #conservation & #warfare are entwined through socio-technical relationships & shared infrastructures. James Merron & @LuregnL historicize #GreenMilitarization along #SouthAfrican borders. Read here: doi.org/g248 #STS #EnvironmentalHumanities #NamibianHistory
Figure 3. Installation of a camera into the nose of the Mirage fighter jet taken in 1976. (Source: Airforce Museum, Cape Town). There are four men wearing aviation uniforms. A pilot climbs in or out of the plane, a man tinkering with camera and another on the wing of the plane, and another man who looks at the plane in a supervising gaze.

ALT Figure 3. Installation of a camera into the nose of the Mirage fighter jet taken in 1976. (Source: Airforce Museum, Cape Town). There are four men wearing aviation uniforms. A pilot climbs in or out of the plane, a man tinkering with camera and another on the wing of the plane, and another man who looks at the plane in a supervising gaze.

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Happy #4s2021 everyone! To celebrate, we’re releasing the new issue of the @4sWeb #openaccess journal, Engaging Science, Technology and Society. Read here now! estsjournal.org/
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8th Namibia Research Day 🗓️2 Oct 2021 🔗Programme out now: zasb.unibas.ch/en/centre/eve… Jointly organized by @ZASBasel, @unam_na and Basler Afrika Bibliographien @gwasiragoodman @Weylandt @LuregnL @NamibianHistory @UniBasel_en #namibia
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