New publications

Globally, it has become clear that mineral extraction, once heralded as the epitome of progress, is central to the Climate Crisis in the Anthropocene. In the latest volume of the African Dynamics Series, the contributors write histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa in which the human is decentred. 

This book is a rare history of how colonialism in southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. It explores major colonial impacts, including wagon labour, disease epidemics and veterinary infrastructure, but also the development of industrial slaughterhouses.