Call for Abstracts for the conference on ‘Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa’, Groningen, Netherlands, 17-18 September 2026. APPLY

Looking forward to this Political Ecology Network Conference. The deadline for presentation proposals is 23:59 CET, 5 December 2025. Click the link for more details, nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

Just finished conducting research on the Zambian Copperbelt!

Rituals, rites and rumours: how women claim power in Zimbabwe’s informal gold mines In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held spiritual power over mines.

Latest blog article with @wildpasts.bsky.social
On women, rituals and gold mining in Zimbabwe.
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Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa | Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation | Cambridge Core Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa - Volume 3

Happy to share our latest co-authored article.

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Earlier this year, I gave a talk at the History Department open day at Groningen University, Netherlands. I underscored the growing importance of photography in resource extraction scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa which speaks to the idea of pluralising research methodologies.