Karoo Disclosure Speaker on Fracking: Anthropology Prof Lesley Green from UCT
Channel: Deborah Weber
Date: 2015-09-22

Prof Lesley Green was one of the speakers presenting on fracking in the recent opening at the Karoo Disclosure Exhibition on fracking held at the South African Museum, opening on 29 August 2015 and running until 2016.

She presented alongside, Saliem Fakir, Art Prof Virginia MacKenny, Palaeontological Prof Roger Smith and Art Theorist Andrew Lamprecht.

Bio: Lesley Green convenes the Environmental Humanities South research and teaching initiative at the University of Cape Town, where she is an Associate Professor of Anthropology.   Her work explores the intersection of science studies, environment, law and philosophy, with particular attention to the challenges of decoloniality for climate policy. Along with colleagues in Environmental Humanities South at UCT,  key questions include how to reimagine the work of environmentalism in South Africa so that ecological concerns are not pitted against development. Areas of study include the militarisation of conservation; research methods for the Anthropocene, and southern African ecological knowledges.
Working across disciplines, Prof Green’s current research and graduate supervisions span fisheries policy, fracking, baboon-human relations, lobster ecology, rhino conservation and plant medicine.  A former Mandela Fellow at Harvard University’s WEB du Bois Institute, she is the editor of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge (Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2013) and co-author of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World (Arizona University Press, 2013).
Further information on the Environmental Humanities South project: www.envhumsouth.uct.ac.za