African Environments: Knowledge, Power & History - Professor Adam Branch
African environments have long been a central concern of politics in the continent, from colonial projects of resource extraction, to independent states’ largescale developmental landscape transformations, to the carbon forestry associated with climate change mitigation today. This module will look critically at different ways of understanding African environments over time and how those different understandings have related to efforts to control, exploit, protect, modify, or live amidst different kinds of landscapes. We will engage a diverse set of texts from politics, anthropology, history, and environmental sciences, foregrounding the relation between knowledge and power and the ways that the politics around African environments speak to wider themes and debates of African politics.