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T.L. (Tholithemba) Ndaba, MA View the profile page of T.L. (Tholithemba) Ndaba, MA, associated with the University of Groningen.

Thank you for paying attention to this! PhD student Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba is studying the environmental history of the Grootvlei mine dump (alongside Diepkloof & Khutsong) www.rug.nl/staff/t.l.nd...

Call for papers: 'Beyond the Blue: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Water in Africa'. A conference organised by the Netherlands Association for African Studies (NVAS) in Delft on 11-12 September 2026!
Join us and send in your abstract: www.afrikastudies.nl #envhum #envhist #AfricanStudies

Call for Abstracts for the 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' Conference Please find the call for abstracts for the conference 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' attached. The conference, organised by the...

Extremely excited to announce the AFREXTRACT conference 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' 17-18 September 2026 in Groningen! If you study environmental thought, activism, and environmental lifeworlds anywhere in Africa, please send us your abstract! www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Can non-Canadians also donate? My card was rejected for no apparent reason (Netherlands card)

Would you have a version of the Bloomberg article that you could share?

Join us for a book talk of African Climate Futures with Carl Death on 2 December from 15.00-16.30 (CET)

The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature

In August 2026, I'll organise a panel with Julia Tischler and Mucha Musemwa on 'A Spirited Environmental History' for the VAD 2026 conference (African Studies, Germany) in beautiful Basel - please apply: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you!
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Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction

New Minor on Climate Change and Inequality kicks off at University of Groningen On September 3rd, the University of Groningen launched its new minor programme, ‘Climate Change and Inequality’, with an inaugural cohort of 11 students.

Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels...
The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!

Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by ...

Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin

Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent.

With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba

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Businesses, Activists, and the Quest for Legitimacy Not registered yet?

Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨
co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social

With @alexh33.bsky.social
@hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social

#BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability
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Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds

Will Zambian mine disaster spill over to destroy relations with China? A 50-million-litre acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia is now threatening to kill ties with Beijing, experts say.

www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!

Gabrielle Hecht. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. The toxicity of Johannesburg’s gold mines is hidden in plain sight. In Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Gabrielle Hecht f

I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!

Sorry to miss this!!