Towards an African Eden? Shifting bio-cultural frontiers and the (re)coupling of social-ecological relations in the conservation areas of southern and eastern Africa (A04)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

Project A04 continues its work on practices of large-scale conservation in southern and eastern Africa. It will pursue research in both prior field sites (Namibia’s Zambezi Region and Kenya’s Baringo County) and widen its efforts in the KAZA transboundary conservation area including conservation areas in south-western Zambia. A combination of a comparative approach, a strongly interdisciplinary agenda and an in-depth ethnographic focus dealing with future-making strategies within conservation settings and under conditions of diversifying rural livelihoods and growing inequalities within rural societies, will contribute to a fuller understanding of future rural Africa.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Michael Bollig