Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the Wild

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Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His books include Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia (2020) and with David Andersen Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs (2017). Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His books include Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia (2020) and with David Andersen Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs (2017). Alfons Mosimane a geographer is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia. For the past 20 years Dr Mosimane has researched institutional development and governance systems in community based natural resources management (CBNRM) in Namibia. Alfons Mosimane a geographer is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia. For the past 20 years Dr Mosimane has researched institutional development and governance systems in community based natural resources management (CBNRM) in Namibia. Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Namibia. She is the author of Securing Land Rights: Communal Land Reform in Namibia (2020). Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Namibia. She is the author of Securing Land Rights: Communal Land Reform in Namibia (2020). Selma Lendelvo is a Senior Researcher and Director of Grants Management and Resources Mobilisation at the University of Namibia. Her research focuses on environmental management and sustainable natural resources management. Selma Lendelvo is a Senior Researcher and Director of Grants Management and Resources Mobilisation at the University of Namibia. Her research focuses on environmental management and sustainable natural resources management. LÉA LACAN is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental anthropology at the University of Cologne Germany and a member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She currently works on the 'Rewilding the Anthropocene' project in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern/Central Africa. Linus Kalvelage is a research associate at the Institute of Geography University of Cologne. A member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 228) 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation' his research interests include tourism GPNs nature conservation and regional development in Southern Africa. Clemens Greiner is the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). His current research focuses on rural change political ecology translocality and (energy) infrastructures in Kenya. His regional specialization is on Eastern and Southern Africa. Javier Revilla Diez holds a Chair in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and is associated to the Global South Study Center at the University of Cologne. He participates in the collaborative research center 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation'. Carolin Hulke is a research associate at the University of Cologne Institute of Geography and associate to the multi-disciplinary research project Future Rural Africa (CRC-TRR228/1). She is conducting her PhD research on southern African agricultural regional value chains livelihood strategies and rural development. Sthembile Ndwandwe is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Cape Town. Her research is currently associated with the Bio-economy Research Chair unit at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science the unit responds to environmental and social implications of pursuing the economic opportunities associated with biodiversity biological products and biological processes and innovations such as modern biotechnology. Jessica-Jane Lavelle is a researcher with the National Research Foundation Bio-economy Research Chair at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on social dimensions of the bio-economy. Eric M. Kioko is a lecturer at Kenyatta University in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development where his research and teaching focuses on the dynamics of human-environment relations. His publications include Cooperation in the midst of conflict (with M. Gravesen 2019) and Appeasing the land (with W. Okumu 2018). HAUKE-PETER VEHRS is a Post-doctoral researcher in the project 'Future Rural Africa: Future-Making and Social Ecological Transformation' at the University of Cologne. Rachel Wynberg is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science University of Cape Town where she holds a national Research Chair focused on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. She has been involved in research and policy-making since the inception of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 advising governments civil society organisations and international agencies. Her publications include five co-edited books and monographs. Lee Hewitson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Dundee. His research interests include the political ecology of (neoliberal) nature conservation and natural resource governance approaches particularly in Africa. He has written popular publications on issues including trophy hunting and the commodification of indigenous natural products in Namibia. Ezequiel Fabiano is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Namibia where his key interests lies on ecosystem dynamics. He is a co-author of Cheetahs: Biology and Conservation; Conservation from Genes to Landscapes (with Sutherland C. Fuller A. Boast L. 2018). Kenneth Matengu is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia and Research Professor at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre Social Sciences Division at the University. He serves as a Commissioner on the International Geographical Union and as an Executive to the IGU Commission on African Studies and The International AIDS Society. He was recently appointed by the President of the Republic of Namibia as a Member of the High Level Panel on the Namibian Economy. Joseph Mbaiwa is the Director of the Okavango Research Institute (ORI) University of Botswana and Professor of Tourism Studies. He is on the editorial board of the South African Geographical Journal Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Journal of Ecotourism. Johannes Dittmann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bonn (Department of Geography) and associated member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC-TRR 228) Future Rural Africa - Future-Making and Socio-Ecological Transformation.His research focuses on social-ecological transformations in context of large-scale conservation and agricultural schemes in Kenya Tanzania and Namibia. Lioba Lenhart is Associate Professor at the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS) Gulu University Uganda. Her current research interests are conflicts over land and natural resources with a focus on conservation conflicts environmental justice migration and forced displacement transitional justice and mental health in post-conflict situations. Ibrahim Maina Waziri is Professor of social and economic history at the University of Maiduguri. He is also involved with the Consortium of Research Centres for Northern States of Nigeria (CRCNN) Mambayya House Bayero University Kano Nigeria the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies University of Bonn Germany and is the Director of the Manuscript Conservation Laboratory of the Centre for Trans Saharan Studies University of Maiduguri. Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University. She has co-edited Political Ecology: Science Myth and Power (2000) Contributions to Law Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-embodiments (2016) Valuing Development Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter (2018) and Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (2021). Martin Shapi is a Senior Researcher in the Social Sciences Division (SSD) of the Multidisciplinary Research Center (MRC) at the University of Namibia (UNAM). He has been extensively involved in Research with UNAM since 2002 primarily focusing on conservation of Natural Resources (NRs). DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN is Professor of Development Geography University of Bonn. He served as the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) Future Rural Africa 2018-2021. His research focuses on the political ecology of land use change and rural development in East Africa and the Middle East. Eric Kioko). Selma Kosmas is a lecturer at the University of Namibia's department for Wildlife Management and Tourism Studies. She is currently doing her PhD; with her research focused on using non-invasive DNA for ecological inferences particularly of large carnivores using Angola as the study area. Michael M. Kinyanjui is an Administrator with the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government engaged in policy development. He is the Author of Factors Influencing Urban Agriculture Performance in Mathare sub-county Nairobi City County Kenya (2018).