Iva Peša is assistant professor of contemporary history at the University of Groningen, and the principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant AFREXTRACT: Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation. We 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.
For more information on AFREXTRACT, please visit their website: http://www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/
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Caption illustration: Danny Chiyesu, ‘Mufulira and the Copper Mine’, March 2024