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Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities
Asante, L. A., Bonsu, B. A., & Helbrecht, I. (2025). Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities. Nature Cities, 2(4), 268–270. h...
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The coloniality and necropolitics of nuclear sacrifice zones: The case of South Africa’s nuclear waste disposal site, Vaalputs
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste.
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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Reviewing poverty as a human-nature disaster to achieve sustainable livelihood outcomes
Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.
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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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Uneven Extinction: anxieties over life and death in times of crisis conservation
The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally.
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
Publication
“We are free when water is available”: gendered livelihood implications of sporadic water supply in Northern Ghana
Jeil, Emmanuel Bintaayi, Kabia Abass and John Kuumuori Ganle. 2020. “We are free when water is available”: gendered livelihood implications ...
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Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governance
Yates, Julian S., Leila M. Harris and Nicole J Wilson. 2017. Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governanc...
