Workshop Programme with Abstracts
- Etosha-Kunene Histories
- Jul 1, 2022
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We're delighted to share the programme for our workshop on 5-6 July, on Etosha-Kunene Conservation Conversations: knowing, protecting and being-with nature, from Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast.
We have a packed cross-disciplinary programme planned around five main panels:
"Landscape approaches and local knowledge in Kunene"
"People, lions and CBNRM"
"Social lives of conservation in north-west Namibia"
"Etosha-Kunene ecologies"
"After eviction and prospects for future conservation".
We are especially pleased to welcome contributions from researchers with Namibia's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the Lion Rangers Programme, Save the Rhino Trust, the University of Namibia, Ongava Research Centre, Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, Etendeka Mountain Camp and Tsintsabis Trust.
We also look forward to exchanges with colleagues at Oxford Brooks University, University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Aberdeen, Universität Hamburg, School for Field Studies - Kenya Programme, University of Goettingen, and University of Wageningen.
Please feel free to take a look at our workshop programme and abstracts, available here:
I was especially drawn to the methodological note in the programme describing how oral histories are being cross-read with environmental archives to trace patterns of displacement in the Kunene Region because it foregrounds a layered epistemology rather than privileging one knowledge system over another. That integrative stance feels crucial for reconstructing localised historical memory in contexts where written records remain fragmentary. In several research forums I have seen discussions referencing New Assignment Help Company dedicated to providing premium tailored academic support for university students as an example of how interdisciplinary scaffolding can help emerging scholars work across such hybrid sources which made me consider the applicability of this workshop model elsewhere. What if similar programmes were used to mediate community…