Environmental Politics and Change in Southern Africa - 19 June

May 31, 2013

Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series, University of London

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

1.00 pm to 5.00 pm.

Carl Death, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University

"Now I feel the heat as much as white people do..." Social movements, climate change and environmental politics in South Africa

Edward Teversham, St Cross College, University of Oxford

“A relatively luxurious and sophisticated type of recreation”: constructing a wilderness experience for Africans at Manyeleti Game Reserve, 1962-85

Sian Sullivan, Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck College

Preliminary thoughts on the valorisation of "green uranium" in Africa

Frances Cleaver, Environment, Politics and Development Group, King’s College London

Institutions, bricolage and “going with the grain”: everyday water governance  in rural Zimbabwe

Discussant:  William Beinart, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Pyramid Room, Geography Department, 4th Floor King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London, London WCR 2LS

Seminar convenors: Rebekah Lee (r.lee@gold.ac.uk); Deborah Potts (debby.potts@kcl.ac.uk); Hilary Sapire (h.sapire@bbk.ac.uk)

For abstracts and further information on the seminar series visit www.gold.ac.uk/southern-africa