African Observatory
Preserving the Earth
Our mission
The African Observatory for Environmental Humanities at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria seeks to harness and mobilise indigenous forms of nature conservation as a way of engaging with what has come to be described as the anthropocene age. The study at the Centre focuses on research themes that will include but not be limited to, colonial modernity, food systems and the environment; extractivism, disease ecologies and climate change, and climate justice and environmental movements.
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University of Pretoria
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Global Humanities Projects
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Global Humanities Partners
Research Projects
The Poetics and Politics of Extraction and the Environment
The signature project at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, this project informs the…
Engaging the Environmental Publics – Seminar Series
Today’s environmental challenges exceed the ability of individual and fragmented research strategies….
Climate Justice and Problems of Scale
The aim of the project is to build “scale literacy” (Horton 2019), to generate a…
Observatory Affiliates
Community members, researchers and scholars.
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