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@jabulanishabazw.bsky.social
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Researcher of resource extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa|PhD Stellenbosch| Postdoctoral Fellow|Vrije Universiteit Brussel| Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO)

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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My new article on women, mercury and toxicity in gold mining in Zimbabwe
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Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢 New Article! How do women experience toxicity in artisanal gold mining? @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social examines women's encounters with mercury in Zimbabwe's Mazowe goldfields, showing how toxicity extends beyond pollution to gendered labour and survival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Women miners in Mazowe at work.
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Call for Abstracts for the conference on ‘Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa’, Groningen, Netherlands, 17-18 September 2026. APPLY
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Looking forward to this Political Ecology Network Conference. The deadline for presentation proposals is 23:59 CET, 5 December 2025. Click the link for more details, nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
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P012: Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South
The panel will consist of four speakers, each presenting for 15 minutes and a moderated discussion after all the presentations.
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Just finished conducting research on the Zambian Copperbelt!
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Latest blog article with @wildpasts.bsky.social On women, rituals and gold mining in Zimbabwe. theconversation.com/rituals-rite...
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Rituals, rites and rumours: how women claim power in Zimbabwe’s informal gold mines
In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held spiritual power over mines.
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy to share our latest co-authored article. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa | Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation | Cambridge Core
Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa - Volume 3
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jabulanishabazw.bsky.social @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Earlier this year, I gave a talk at the History Department open day at Groningen University, Netherlands. I underscored the growing importance of photography in resource extraction scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa which speaks to the idea of pluralising research methodologies.
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