Senior Lecturer- Environmental & Resource Politics
Location: Block 236 Office 218My formal education:
2017-2020: PhD in Environmental &ÌýGeographical Science (University of Cape Town)
2015-2016: MPhil in Environment, Society & SustainabilityÌý(University of Cape Town)
2009-2013: BA Environmental Science Ìý(4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû)
Emmanuel Mogende is a conservation social scientist whose research interests revolve aroundÌýthe political ecology and political economy of natural resources with a particular focus on biodiversity conservation and the politics of ecotourismÌýin Botswana. He completed hisÌýPhD studies in Environmental and Geographical Science at University of Cape Town in 2020. His PhDÌýresearchÌýchallenges the normative assumptions that informs the debates on the green state which have excluded African states from the analyses of the green state. The research draws attention to the processes that produce the green state in the African context using Botswana’s wildlife conservation policy and practices as an example.ÌýMy current research interests which takes into cognizance a collaborative approach, centres around issues related to environmental resource conflicts, nature-society and state-society relations in wildlife conservation in their political, economic, social and historical contexts.ÌýI am also interested in the North-South relations embedded in international environmental diplomacy and how policies emanating from this relations impact the Global South in wildlife conservation.Ìý
His research interest are within the sub fields of political geography and political ecology
Environmental politics
Resource conflicts
State-society relations in wildlife conservationÌý
Society-nature relations
Transfontier conservation areasÌý
Power relations in resource use
Community-Based Natural Resource Management
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Environmental Governance and politics
Environmental Resource Conflicts
Environmental JusticeÌý
Just transition and greener economies
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Mogende, E. 2025. Conservation Politics in Botswana's 'Green State'. Current History, 124(862): 175-180.Ìý
Hübschle, A., Kerina, K., Mogende, E., & Suping, K. 2024. Voices from the frontlines in the Okavango River Basin: towards a cooperative model of environmental activism in the Global South. International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 13(1).
Leggenhager, L & Mogende, E. 2024. Nature conservation, borders & violence along the Chobe River between Botswana & Namibia in the 21st century. Journal of Borderlands Studies.Ìý
LaRocco, A & Mogende, E. 2022. Fall from grace or back down to earth? Conservation and political conflict in Africa's "miracle" state. Environment and Planning E: nature and Space, 7(1).
Mogende, E & Ramutsindela, M. 2020. Political leadership and non-state actors in the greening of Botswana. Review of African Political Economy, 47 (165).ÌýÌý
Mogende, E & Ramutsindela, M. (2022). The violence of greening the state in Africa. In Ramutsindela, M., Matose, F. & Mushonga, T (eds), The violence of conservation in Africa: state militarisation and alternatives, pp.37-52. Edward Elgar Publishing.Ìý