Rewilding the Anthropocene

Human-Animal Assemblages in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

Rewilding the Anthropocene is a research project in environmental anthropology contributing to the budding field of environmental humanities and to debates on the shifting entanglements between people, flora, and fauna in the world’s largest conservation landscape, the southern African Kavango-Zambezi Transboundary Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA).

The project is a unique attempt to grasp changing socio-ecological relations among humans and other species through six field studies within KAZA TFCA. These studies follow a comparative approach to examine how human livelihoods, institutions, social imaginaries, and attitudes change under – and give rise to – new socio-ecological conditions. They also include an in-depth focus on six particular multi-species assemblages. Each assemblage is comprised of a loose multi-scalar network consisting of different species populations, environmental infrastructures and technologies, and human actors and organizations.

Beyond its empirical focus on southern Africa the project actively engages in debates and research on rewilding and conservation across the globe. Workshops, conferences and publications aim to contribute to an understanding of rewilding as a key strategy of environmental governance in the Anthropocene.

Environmental Anthropology & Conservation

Kavango-Zambezi Transboundary Conservation Area

Workshops, Conferences & Publications

Debates & Research across the Globe

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News about our Project

Beastly Tension

Tierische Anspannung, in German, can be translated to both the title of this blog entry and the ‘operation of a draught animal’, as it is commonly used in South Asia, for example ...
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The Rewilding project is part of the next exhibition in Museum Wiesbaden!

The REWILDING Project is present in the exhibition entitled “Der Hase ist des Jägers Tod. Kultur und Natur des südlichen Afrikas“ which will be on display in the Museum Wiesbaden from the ...
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The Cologne University Magazine writes about the Rewilding project!

Check out the article of the Cologne University Magazine on our Rewilding project written by Jan Voelkel: https://portal.uni-koeln.de/universitaet/aktuell/koelner-universitaetsmagazin/unimag-einzelansicht/elefanten-kennen-keine-grenzen#news9465 Picture of the Cologne University Website.
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Interdisciplinary rewilding round table

Rewilding in Latin America, Africa and Europe Julia Brekl from the Rewilding project takes part in the interdisciplinary round table “Rewilding ¿la vuelta a lo salvaje? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias de Sur y Norte”.  ...
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Our project is at ECAS2023!

rewilding at ECAS2023…. The European Conference on African Studies will take place from May 31 to June 3, 2023 in Cologne!  The project “Rewilding the Anthropocene” will be represented. Check out where ...
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Spring Workshop CRC228-ERC “Rewilding” 24-26 May 2023

Spring workshop, getting ready for the ECAS2023 From the 24th to the 26th of May 2023, early career researchers from the Collaborative Research Center 228 “Future Rural Africa” and the ERC project ...
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Report: Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods – 16th and 17th of February 2023

Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods – 16th and 17th of February 2023, Okavango Research Institute, Maun (Botswana) On the 16th and 17th of February, the two-day workshop on qualitative research methods took ...
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Multispecies Encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa – Workshop 27th-28th February 2023

Multispecies Encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa Two-day workshop Organized by the University of Cologne and the University of Namibia When: 27th and 28th of February 2023 Where: University of Namibia ...
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Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods – 16th and 17th of February 2023

Qualitative Research Methods: What are they, how to use them & what could they mean for your own research? Two-day workshop Organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of ...
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Rewilding looks at shifting entanglements between people, flora, and fauna in the the southern African Kavango-Zambezi Transboundary Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). Beyond KAZA, it engages with debates and research on rewilding across the globe.

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