Book Launch: Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills

Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest

Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo highlands, Kenya, and asks us to rethink the forest beyond questions of access and control of natural resources, as a habitat where forest politics and human lives are inextricably intertwined – https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847013811/forest-politics-in-kenyas-tugen-hills/

About the Author

Léa Lacan is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany and a member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She did her PhD in anthropology within the Collaborative Research Center 228 “Future Rural Africa” at the University of Cologne on forest conservation and human-forest relations in Kenya. She is now working on the ‘Rewilding the Anthropocene’ project in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern/Central Africa. Her current research focuses on the politics of local wildlife conservation in southwestern Zambia at the intersection of political ecology and more-than-human anthropology.

Discussant

• Dr. Hauke-Peter Vehrs (University of Cologne)

Moderator

• Dr. Eric Mutisya Kioko (Senior Research Fellow, British Institute in Eastern Africa)

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