This research explores tracking and gathering practices as modes of knowing, relating to, and theorising more-than-human relations and landscapes in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. It is an anthropological investigation of the contrasting formulations of landscape among indigenous communities, wildlife conservationists, and natural gas prospectors in the landscapes of the Kalahari Desert.
Researcher
Pierre du Plessis is an International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Independent Research Fund, Denmark (DFF), co-hosted by the Environmental Humanities South program at the University of Cape Town and the Anthropology Department and the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is an environmental anthropologist with PhDs from Aarhus University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.