This research focuses on the militarisation of conservation and the rise of violence in protected conservation areas. The researchers analyses the nature of military practices, emerging forms of violence and the consequences of such violence on people living in and around protected areas.
Researcher
Tafadzwa Mushonga holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science from Bindura University, Zimbabwe, and an MSc in Forest and Nature Conservation from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She worked for the Forestry Commission of Zimbabwe for over five years and started her PhD in Sociology under the auspices of the Environmental Humanities South programme in February 2015. She is an Andrew Mellon doctoral fellow. Tafadzwa is more broadly interested in environmental and societal issues, with particular interest in people-state relationships.