Announcements

Iva Pesa just published an article 'Court Proceedings as Sources for Environmental History: Analysing Struggles for Environmental Justice on the Zambian Copperbelt' in a special issue of the journal Entreprises et Histoire. The special issue, edited by Peter van Dam and Sabine Pitteloud, focuses on how businesses engage environmental activists.

The AFREXTRACT project published a new article on sources for writing histories of extraction in Africa. It is titled 'Pluralizing Archives for Histories of Extraction in Africa', and it is published in Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation.

Iva Pesa spoke to Benoit Henriet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) who runs the FORAGENCY ERC project. They discussed how to approach pollution as an historical topic, the added value of thinking about ecological disruptions from the bottom-up, the use of literary sources in environmental history, and the validity of Anthropocene as a concept.

Find the preliminary programme for the international conference Mapping Toxic Coloniality: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America here.