At this week’s Thursday Forum, Dr Janie Swanepoel will be presenting on In the Land of the Jackals: Multispecies Narratives in Namibia’s Settler Lands. The session will start at 15:00.

Janie Swanepoel is affiliated with the University of Cologne and works as a responsible business consultant with an NGO called Partner Africa that aims to improve the lives of producers and workers across Africa through global supply chain due diligence. She is currently in the final stages of publishing a book with James Currey on her research in Southern Namibia, provisionally titled: In the Land of the Jackals: Multispecies Narratives in Namibia’s Settler Lands. The book explores postcolonial multispecies relations over time, arguing that looking at settler colonialism in southern Namibia from a human perspective alone is not enough to understand the development of the region. Janie holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, completed as a co-tutelle between the University of Cologne and the University of the Free State. Her ongoing research interests lie in exploring past and present entanglements of animals, people, plants, and soils in relation to political and environmental change.

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Forum Archive:

2025

3010: Janie Swanepoel
0910: Prof. Knut G. Nustad
0610: Prof. Michael Bollig
0210: Katrina Lehmann-Grube
2509: Stephanie Borchardt
1809: Laura J. Mitchell
2807: Dineo Skosana
2807 Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
0506: Caroline Wallington
2905: Joëlle Chesselet
2205: Prof Davide Chinigò
1505: Prof Irus Braverman
0805: Laurin Baumgardt
2404: Chris Conz
1704: Prof Matthew Gandy
1004: Matthew Wingfield
2003: Marlene Merchert
1303: Prof William Beinart and Lizé Myburgh
0603: Prof Olaf Zenker
2702: Prof Nigel Penn