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Landscaping the Cape: “improvement”, the politics of visibility & the heritage e/affects of socio-ecological commoning, 1872 – 1948
This project builds on scholarship about landscape and memory in Cape Town by looking at how “nature” historically structured the material making of the cityscape, and the racially-heterogenous socio-natural commons that emerged in the city during the 20th century.
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Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish
There has been substantial attention paid in literary and postcolonial studies to issues of environment and ecology, and especially the environmental transformations which colonial and imperial histories have wrought upon the (post)colony.
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Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories
Wynn, Graeme, Jane Carruthers and Nancy J. Jacobs. (Eds.). 2022. Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories. Ohio Universit...
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Beasts of the Southern World: multi-species history and the Anthropocene
Charles Darwin jotted in his notebook in 1838, He who understands the baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
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The “Big Hole”, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920
The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future.
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Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park
Dlamini, Jacob S. T. 2020. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park. Ohio University Press. https://www.scribd.com/book/4...
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Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places)
Duncan Brown. 2013. Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places). Picador Africa, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-77010-302-3.
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National Park Science
Carruthers, Jane. 2017. National Park Science. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108123471
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Controlling Landscapes and Bodies
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch and Cape Town faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to look at the positioning and chronology of Egyptian rock art in the Eastern Sahara in order to establish whether the animal or human images shown reflect changes in the environment and how it was manipulated, and ways in which this can be proven.
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Dangerous Denial: An Exploration of Major Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the body’s hormonal system, adversely affecting reproduction, neurology and immunology in humans and animals.
