James Granelli

James is an MPhil candidate in Environmental Humanities at the University of Cape Town. His work seeks to respond generatively to a world of uncertain climate and ecological futures, looking to think with the more-than-human world, relational material flows, anti-capitalist resistances, and arts-based methods to think ecologies differently for habitability in the Capitalocene. His current research with the Critical Zones Africa South and East (CzASE) Studies, focusing on the various multispecies assemblages of endangered biodiversity in the critical zone. His work thinks through these relations in discourses around development, conservation, climate change adaptation, and contamination. This includes seeking out the possibility for a different evidentiary of environmental degradation beyond the horizontally orientated maps, graphics, and charts.

James’s broader research interests include multispecies ethnography, urban political ecology, and environmental anthropology.

He previously completed both a BSocSci (Hons) in Anthropology and BSocSci in Environmental and Geographical Science & Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. Find news about James’s work here.