New book to be published: “Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills”, by Léa Lacan

The book “Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest” written by Léa Lacan will be published in July 2024. It explores historical and contemporary human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest in the Baringo Highlands, Kenya, and analyses forest politics beyond issues of access and control of natural resources, anchored in intimate relations with the land and the trees.

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New article on wildlife corridors in the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area

The new article “Elephant corridors in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area (KAZA TFCA): environmental infrastructures for a greener anthropocene in Namibia’s Mudumu landscape” by Emilie Köhler ...
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Upcoming workshop in Botswana: Human-Carnivore Co-adaptation. Exploring changing behaviours, perceptions and (research) practices

Click here to view program Hosts Global South Studies Center (GSSC), the University of Cologne Rewilding the Anthropocene – A European Research Council Advanced Grant ...
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Elephant Modernities: Thinking along blurry lines between humans, elephants and technologies – An interdisciplinary workshop

Click here to view program HostsGlobal South Studies Center (GSSC), the University of CologneRewilding the Anthropocene – A European Research Council Advanced Grant Project OrganizersProf. ...
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Upcoming Workshop: Fieldwork & Fiction I: Rewilding Narratives

Venue: Auerbach Library, MESH Date: January 17, 2025 Our workshop on Rewilding Narratives is a collaboration between the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) ...
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Just published: Article on multispecies assemblages

Picture by Léa Lacan, southwestern Zambia, March 2023. The article “The Assemblage: A Framework for Anthropological Research in Multispecies Studies” by Léa Lacan, Paula Alexiou, ...
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Upcoming workshop on ‘wildlife-livestock interfaces in northern Botswana’

Photo by Jeroen van Rooyen workshop programme The wildlife-livestock interface (WLI) is an ecological concept that describes the spatial dimension of encounters between wild and ...
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