Publications

Lesley Green’s book Rock Water Life (2020) was awarded the Humanities Book Prize of the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2023.

• Reclaiming African Environmentalism: Ecological Struggles for Well-Being and Habitability, edited by Green, Matose, Matusse and Solomon (2025 HSRC Press)
• To Defend the Earth Is To Defend the Human: Amilcar Cabral on Soil, Society and Freedom, the first english translation of Amilcar Cabral’s agronomy works. Translated and edited by Anselmo Matusse, Carlos Lopes, and Lesley Green. (2026 HSRC Press)

Boütinüt, Laurence & Baticle, Christophe & Dkamela, Guy. 2019. La forêt comme commun en Afrique Centrale: une lutte desubsistance dans la globalisation in Les Communs, Aujourd’Hui ! Ed. Bruno Delmas & Etienne le Roy, pp.135-157.

Daya, S. 2019. Words and worlds: textual representation and new materialism. Cultural Geographies, 26(3), 361-377.

Daya, Shari. “Meat in black and white.” Food, Culture & Society 26 (2022): 666 - 684.

Green, L., Ojemaye, C., Petrik, L., Barnes, J., Solomon, N., Beukes, A., Farr, V. and Zackon, M., 2025. Contaminant denialism in water governance. Water Resources Research, 61(7), p

Green, Lesley. 2024. Material flows as Earth politics: Concepts, methods, and approaches for transdisciplinary diagnostics and repair at Muizenberg East, Cape Town. Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space. 7(3), 1279-1298.

Green, Lesley. 2022. Paradigm shifts for a planetary emergency: Towards an anthropocenography for urban coastal research at False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 118. Special issue: Radical Reason. November 2022.

Green, Lesley. Unmaking Soil Mastery: Postscript. Environmental Humanities 1 May 2020; 12 (1): 285–287.

Gukurume, Tombindo, Jimu T, 2024, Mining-Induced Displacement and Resource Conflicts in Chiadzwa” , Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe, Routledge,

Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa & Brockhaus, Maria & Sehring, Jenniver & Di Gregorio, Monica & Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel & Babon,

Andrea & Bekele, Melaku & Benn, Vanessa & Gebara, Maria Fernanda & Kambire, Hermann & Kengoum Djiegni, Félicien &

Maharani, Cynthia & Menton, Mary & Moeliono, Moira & Ochieng, Meldone & Paudel, Naya & Thuy, Pham & Dkamela, Guy & Sitoe,

Almeida. (2018). What drives policy change for REDD+? A qualitative comparative analysis of the interplay between institutional and policy arena factors. Climate Policy 19

Jimu, T, Rennkamp, B, , 2024, Science to Practice-Networked governance of sustainability transitions in an African University.International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 25(9), 2024 pp. 19-39

Jimu T, Magidi, M, Gukurume S, 2024, “Governance, Power Dynamics and Conflicts in Norton’s Small-Scale Fisheries”, Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe, Routledge,

Jimu T, Williams S, Spocter M, 2024. Analysing informal governance arrangements in small-scale fisheries: A case study of Norton, Zimbabwe, International Journal of the Commons. In press.

Lyon, Kristina, Tania Perez Bustos, Juno Parrenas, Lesley Green, Noah Tamarkin, Banu Subramanian. 2017. Engaging Decoloniality in Science and Technology Studies. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 3(1)2017

Matusse, A. 2022. Sites of contestation: encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Anthropology Southern Africa, 45:1, 46-48

Matusse, A. 2019. Laws, Parks, Reserves, and Local Peoples: A Brief Historical Analysis of Conservation Legislation in Mozambique.Conservation and Society 17 (1), 15-20.

Matusse, A. 2023. Augmented Reality and public participation in Maputo city: An exploratory study. Digital Humanities Quarterly 7(4).

Matusse, A. 2023. Plantationocene: extractive capture of nature and people in Lugela district, Zambézia Province. Journal of Peasant Studies 1(1):1-17

Matusse, A. Forthcoming. Laws, Land, Labour, Loss, and Life: An outline of precarity in the Lugela district, Zambézia province, central Mozambique. Core (In press).

O’Gorman, Emily; Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Joni Adamson, Christof Mauch, Sverker Sorlin, Marco Amiero, Donna Houston,

José Padua, Kate Rigby, Owain Jones, Judy Motion, Chia-ju Chang, Shuyuan Lu, Christopher Jones, Kati Lindström, Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Hedley Twidle, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Stephen Muecke, Dolly Jørgensen, Anne McNight, Shinji Iwamasa, Bethany Wiggin. 2019. Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices. Environmental Humanities 11(2)427-46.

Ojemaye, Cecilia; Magne Sydnes; Daniela Pampanin; Leslie Petrik; Lesley Green. 2022. The burden of emerging contaminants upon an Atlantic marine protected reserve. Heliyon 2022 8(12) December 2022, e12625

Ojemaye, C., 2023. Unearthing the human dimension of climate change: The reflections of an analytical environmental chemist.New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, 2023(91), pp.73-75.

Ojemaye CY, Abegunde A, Green L, Petrik L. 2024. The efficacy of wastewater treatment plant on removal of perfluoroalkyl substances and their impacts on the coastal environment of False Bay, South Africa. Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Petrik Leslie; Lesley Green, Adeola P Abegunde, Melissa Zackon, Cecilia Y Sanusi, Jo Barnes, 2017. Desalination and SeawaterQuality in Green Point, Cape Town: A study on the Effects of Marine Sewage Outfalls. South African Journal of Science. Vol 113(11/12) Article #a0244.

Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm, 2021. From Differentiated Responsibilities to Climate Apartheid: Discourses of Inequality Around Climate Change Adaptation in Africa. SSRN.

Sanya, Tom, Donna Shefer, Mari Smith, Faith Gara, Lina Lukusa, Chisomo Kelvin Phiri, Nikiwe Solomon, Kirsty Carden, John Okedi, Ulrike Rivett, Amber Louise Abrams, Adam Brews. Towards Liveable Neighbourhoods by Redesigning Using Water Sensitive Design. Water Research Commission. July 2023.

Tembe, A. and Matusse, A. 2020. Commuting Trips, Income and Gender in the Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Current Urban Studies: 8 (1), 563-575.

Tsampiras, Carla. 2021. “‘Hot Chicks on Board’ – Gender, Meat, and Violence in Food Marketing In, and From, South Africa”. Gender Questions 9 (1):24 pages.

Twidle, Hedley and Aragorn Eloff. 2023. Sounding Environments, Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, eds. Emily O’Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart. London: Routledge.

Cozett, Shaun. 2022. Green violence along the value chain of illicit trade in in Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds)The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp 155-167

Dkamela, GP and Samuel Nguiffo. 2022. The new turn in the militarization of conservation in Cameroon, Central Africa, in Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp.90-112.

Green, Lesley. Terranology. In Critical Zones. Ed. Jennifer Eadie and Stephen Muecke. Routledge. In Press.

Green, Lesley and Vanessa Farr. 2023. The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone. In: Reparative Ecologies, edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. Bristol University Press.

Green, Lesley. 2022. Cesaire in Cape Town. Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, edited by Nils Bubandt and Thomas Schwarz Werner. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086253

Green, Lesley. 2020. Ocean Regime Shift, in Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, ed. Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Green, Lesley. 2016. Calculemos Jasus lalandii: Accounting for the ecological regime shift of the South African West Coast Rock Lobster, in Reset Modernity! Ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Katzschner, Tania and Bridget Pitt. 2022. Princess Vlei – a story of entangled vitality. In Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp. 202-221.

Katzschner, Tania & Robins, Steven. 2020. Troubled Waters and Place Attachment: A spring in Cape Town and loss of place. In: Place Meaning and Attachment ed. Dak Kopec and AnnaMarie Bliss. Routledge, pp.158-170.

Kozanayi W, R. Nyirend , T. Maravanyika-Mutimukuru, F. Matose, M. Ngwenya, and L. Sibanda, 2023. “Sustaining adaptive collaborative management processes: challenges and opportunities from Mafungautsi State Forest, Gokwe, Zimbabwe”, in Colfer, CJP and Prabhu, R. (eds) Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management: From Forest Communities to Global Actors. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 164-194.

MacKenny, Virginia and Lesley Green. 2021. Extracting the Cost: Re-membering the Discarded in African Landscapes. In: Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change, pp.15-25. edited by T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee. London: Routledge.

Makhubu, Nomusa. 2021. Capturing Nature: Eco-Justice in African Art. Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change, pp.15-25. edited by T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee. London: Routledge.

Matose, F. Dabo, D., Konono, T. and Tsawu, S. 2022. “The state and contested natural resources in Africa”, in Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp22-36.

Matusse, A. 2022. Protecting (with) Mount Mabo: Is another form of nature conservation possible? In Ramutsindela, M., Matose,

F. and Mushonga, T. (eds). The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarization and Alternatives. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 187-201.

Matose, F. Oyono, R.P. and Murombedzi, J.C. 2019. Customary authority and commons governance, Chapter 25 in Hudson, B,

Rosenblom, J and Cole, D H. (eds) Routledge Handbook of the Study of Commons. London, Routledge pp. 334-344.

Mushonga, T and Matose F. 2020. “Dimensions and corollaries of violence in Zimbabwe’s protected forests” Geoforum 117, December 2020, pp.216-224.

Mushonga, T. 2022. Violent forests, local people and the role of the state in Zimbabwe, in Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and

Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp.73-89

Ndaba, Mpho and Rachael Nyirongo. 2023. The black sonic gestures toward just planetary futures in Africa. New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 2023 (91).

Ndaba, Mpho. 2024. Book Review: These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home and death in South Africa. New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 23(91)

Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T 2022. “The Violence of Conservation in Africa”, Chapter 1 in Ramutsindela, M, Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar

Ramutsindela, M., Mushonga, T. and Matose F. 2022. “Non-violent conservation: the need and possibilities”, in Ramutsindela, M,

Matose, F and Mushonga, T. (eds) The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation and Alternatives. Edward Elgar, pp.222-240.

Sigauke, Esther. 2021. Connecting urban agriculture with design thinking: a case study from Zimbabwe, The Journal of Environmental Education, 52(1)53-68.

Sithole, S and Matose, F. 2021. “Where did our nature go?” Situating voices of local communities around conservation violence/ militarization”, in Meguro, T. (ed) ‘African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Image of ‘Deficiency’ and Tyranny of ‘Fortress’. Langaa.

Solomon, N. 2025. Material flows in Landscapes of Injustice. In Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of COVID-19. Ed. Tatiana Konrad. Michigan State University Press.