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Sounds of life
The title of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" equates life with sound, death with silence.
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Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in the Contemporary Global Novel
Two of the most important global crises of the current historical moment are migration and climate change, with the attendant biodiversity loss and other ecological problems.
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Water, drought and song in the Kingdom of eSwatini
This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini.
Publication
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa
Nustad, K. G., Brown, D., & Swanson, H. A. 2025. Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa. Environment an...
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Unstable Ground
Rosalind C. Morris. 2025. Unstable Ground. Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/unstable-ground/9780231216128/
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Phytospheric Justice
This book project follows the symbiotic atmospheric pathways that connect plant and human breath to develop forms of cultural theorizing accountable to an increasingly climate-deranged world.
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South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Storying the blue Anthropocene from the oceanic South: oscillating and turbulent perspectives on the planetary crisis
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects of the Anthropocene.
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The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2022. The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene. Sustainability, 14(6), 3674. https://doi.org/10.33...
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Speaking Animals in African Literature
This project deals with the representation of the narrating animal in present-day African texts written in English, French and Portuguese.
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Global trout: investigating environmental change through more-than human world systems
This project investigates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to new modes of conservation and environmental management that are responsive to the complex histories and politics of species introductions.
Publication
ETN:H20
Lundin, Susanne, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal and Lynn Åkesson. Eds. 2021. ETN:H20. In ETN. Etnologisk skriftserie. Vol. 10. Institutionen för ku...
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Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony. Critical African Studies 8(2):179–95. http://dx.doi....
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Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African?
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African? Pp. 21–38 in Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Foo...
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On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds
Dunér, David. 2017. On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds. Environmental Humanities, 9(2), 433–453. https://doi.org/10.121...
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Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments.
Brown, Duncan. 2019. Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukz...
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Southern imaginaries, or, thinking from the South
At a time when the focus of economic development is often the so-called Global South, yet when countries of the north continue to grow in geopolitical dominance, this interdisciplinary project offers a series of cultural, historical, and literary reflections on southness.
