Pierre will be co-hosted by the Anthropology Department and the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University and by Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He will also conduct field research in Botswana during his time in southern Africa.

This is how the project is described on the DFF website:

"This postdoctoral project 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, Botswana. Specifically, it examines how prospectors work to turn land into a resource for Coal-Bed-Methane (CBM) extraction and the resulting conflicts with local human communities and ecologies. This project aims to describe and compare the contrasting formulations of landscape of various actors living and working in the region who similarly, but differently, track aspects of Kalahari landscapes. In doing so, this project stands to show how extractive industries situate themselves in relation to post-colonial politics and indigenous livelihood practices, issues that are central to contemporary debates about the Anthropocene."

Congratulations, Pierre!