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Environmental, Economic & Labours Histories :CORE RESEARCH THEMES • Conservation policy and protected-area governance • Historical land-use systems and agrarian change • Community-based natural-resource management • Wildlife governance and access regimes • Indigenous ecological knowledge systems and African Alternative Knowledges • Political ecology of conservation • Climate vulnerability and environmental regulation ,
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I am an Environmental, Economic and Labour historian specializing in conservation governance, land-use change, and natural-resource politics in Africa. My work provides historically grounded analysis of how conservation regimes, protected-area policies, and state regulation have shaped rural livelihoods and ecological transformations. I have over twenty years of university teaching, postgraduate supervision, and interdisciplinary research experience, with strong field-based and archival expertise applicable to conservation research contexts. CURRENT BOOK PROJECT 'Contested Grounds: Natural Resources, Authority, and African Resistance in Malawi’s Lower Tchiri Valley, c.1850–1960' Examines: • Precolonial and colonial land governance systems • Conservation legislation and African resistance • Forest, wildlife, and water regulation • Long-term roots of contemporary environmental conflicts Offers policy-relevant insights into conservation governance and community–state negotiations.
