I work as a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States). In research and teaching, I explore ways in which people exploit each other while exploiting nature, environments, and, indeed, the entire biosphere. I have written history and ethnography on topics as diverse as settler colonialism, racism, slavery, land reform, climate change, oil, and renewable energy – in Southern Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. My current work takes me to southern Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar, an energy-rich blow zone. Provisionally entitled Utopia of Wind: Politics after Fossil Fuels, the project will reassess property, aesthetics, biodiversity, work, and other Left values in light of the transition towards clean energy. Throughout, I have sought to dismantle associations taken for granted: those between land and freedom, between whiteness and nature, and between oil and progress. You may read current and older texts through the links to below.
Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy - published 2021
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Utopia of Wind
Energy without Conscience |
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
My second book came out in 2010 with Palgrave Macmillan. You can learn more about the work and buy it here.
The Johannesburg Mail and Guardian reviewed the book here.
From Enslavement to Environmentalism
University of Washington Press published my first book in 2006 in its Nature, Culture, Place Series. You can learn more about the work and buy it here.
The Zimbabwe Independent reviewed the book here.
