Very excited that the International Handbook of Police Ethnography (Routledge) is now available! Thanks Dr Sarah Charman for coming on board and special thanks to the many scholars who stepped up to produce what are really fabulous chapters. Thanks shorturl.at/aklvE

I received my copy in the mail today 💃🏾. Thank you for putting together such a fantastic Handbook Jenny Fleming and Dr Sarah Charman. It was great working with Jarrett Blaustein and Clifford Shearing on our chapter.

Good to see Annette Hübschle exploring the future of conservation in Africa with top African scholars at the Living Landscape Impact workshop organised by PLAAS Oak Foundation SDC_WUR.

Excited to share our paper, with Freedom Onuoha, "Whose security is it? Elitism and the global approach to #marsec in #Africa" by thirdworldq. We demonstrate that the selective framing of maritime threats in Africa is an elite project... #GoA #GoG Enjoy! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

GRG researcher Dr Annette Hübschle, Dr Emile Smidt and Associate Prof Daan van Uhm will speak at a lunchtime seminar at UCT Law School tomorrow. 📆 21 February 2023 ⏰ 14h00-16h00 📍Moot Court, 5th Floor, Kramer Law Building Register for free: lnkd.in/eKkbQ9Py

Excited to be joining Emile Smidt and Daan van Uhm for a seminar on #wildlife crimes and green criminology tomorrow. In-person and on-line participation available.

ReconAfrica plans to drill 12 more wells in Kavango forest. Environmentalists are objecting to the proposed drilling at communal and commercial farms. Frack Free Namibia has objected. The deadline to submit input or raise opposition is 27 February namibian.com.na/index.php?id=1…

The headline to this story is deceiving. Please note that rhinos have gone extinct twice in Botswana's recent history. And quite notably NOT during the current regime. So hold your horses on critiquing rhino conservation in present-day Botswana. Best to take a longterm view

In 2004, Elrena van der Spuy at the University of Cape Town's Centre of Criminology introduced me to the literature on police organisational culture, and changed my life. Join us on 14 March to honour her many contributions to research and teaching in SA: forms.gle/Rm6hM852SkmUsU…

The Neocolonial Oil Racket: A Canadian company has begun drilling near Africa’s protected Okavango River Delta, promising jobs for locals and endless fossil fuel for investors. So far, there’s been no oil — but there have been big profits for the founders rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Same what’s app group telling Africans to co-exist with predators. Meanwhile back at the ranch a different set of standards are applied

From 1990–2019, research on Africa received only 3.8% of climate-related research funding globally. Of this 3.8% funding for climate research on Africa, 78% went to EU and North American institutions, while African institutions received only 14.5%.

Some direct results of this imbalance in funding are a dismally low number of publications led by locally-based authors and a lack of attention to African priorities. Read the full article here, doi.org/10.1080/175655…

Join Professor Bina Agarwal and @PLAASUWC for an academic seminar on obstacles to women's land rights. Drawing from her research in India, she sheds light on the extent of the gap and proposes potential solutions. 📅13 June 2023 ⌚13:00 CAT Register: loom.ly/ZNRg1Fc

This is absolutely devastating news for journalists and researchers alike. We should all be very very concerned and help amaBhungane appeal the court order. It is in our public interest. Unbelievable that media freedoms are no longer protected in South Africa in 2023.

The environment as a tool of control. Environmental restoration as a form of resistance to imperialism. Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel presents on the civil war in Ethiopia and how the environment has always been political in the #Tigray region. POLLENCon2023

Our researcher Annette Hübschle attended her first POLLENCon2023 in Durban. An incredible collection of scholars talking about political ecology matters.

Study led by University of Free States’ Surina Esterhuyse reveals that #ReconAfrica’s drilling threatens contamination of the Okavango River Basin, putting water in Namibia and Botswana at risk theconversation.com/oil-drilling-t… via The Conversation Africa