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Luregn

@luregn.bsky.social
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Environmental Historian working on nature conservation, land, borders, animals, and landscapes in Southern Africa and beyond. 🌱🇳🇦✊🏼🌍🚞🗺️🫏

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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last chance to send in your proposals for this great conference on who gets to stay on a changing planet! We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New OA paper! 🫏🐑🌿 My paper follows donkeys, sheep, Salvinia & wildlife across Southern African borders, asking how borders and multispecies mobilities shape, challenge and reconfigure one another. In a great special issue ed. by Sabine Hanke & Anne Sophie Overkamp. doi.org/10.1002/bewi... #envhist
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa<link href='#bewi70033-afnote-0073'>**</link>
This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned no...
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
📢 CfP: Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: Who gets to stay on a changing Planet? Cape Town, 27–29 Jan 2027 On dereliction & curation, private conservation, luxury tourism, agrarian change, ruined landscapes, elite escapes, ... zasb.unibas.ch/de/cedel/cfp... #EnvHist #PoliticalEcology #AfricanStudies
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Call for Contributions: Inhabiting the Uninhabitable | Zentrum für Afrikastudien | Universität Basel
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Oh, interesting! Thanks for sharing
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🐴 Short public-facing piece on donkey histories in Namibia Written with Giorgio, Romie & Martha theconversation.com/donkeys-are-... www.namibian.com.na/the-colonial...
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Donkeys are a common sight in northern Namibia – what colonial history has to do with it
The story of donkeys in Namibia is one of colonial control but also resistance.
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📗 Special Issue on Conservation & Land — Namibian Journal of Environment Co-edited with Romie Nghitevelekwa & Frowin Becker Collaborative contributions on land and conservation in Namibia. nje.org.na/index.php/nj...
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📘 Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland Co-edited with Giorgio Miescher, Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo & Raffaele Perniola Grew out of the Learning for (Ex-)change student exchange project — many chapters authored by joint student groups. baslerafrika.ch/de-ch/produc...
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Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland
This edited volume shows surprising similarities in labour history and its legacy in two different contexts: South African occupied Namibia and Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century. Both...
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Several years of collaboration have decided to publish at the same time 🙂 Three collective outputs from Swiss–Namibian exchange, co-editing, and writing partnerships appeared this week — see below 👇
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Don't miss the SGAS&VAD conference in Basel - Call for Paper still open until 11 January 2026! Check out our Panel Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes between Environmental Collapse and Elite Control: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap... #envhist #envhum #conservation
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Call for Papers – SGAS-VAD-2026 conference | Basel, 26-28 August 2026
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
In den Alpen und Namibia: Naturschutz verspricht Zukunft – ist aber oft ein Rückgriff auf romantisierte Vergangenheiten. Wer entscheidet, wohin „zurück“ gegangen wird, bestimmt auch, wer und was in der Natur künftig keinen Platz mehr hat. #envhist #envhum
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Zurück zur Natur? Wie Natur­schutz mit Vergan­gen­heit Politik macht
Naturschutz verspricht Zukunft – ist aber oft ein Rückgriff auf romantisierte Vergangenheiten. Wer entscheidet, wohin „zurück“ gegangen wird, bestimmt auch, wer und was in der Natur künftig keinen Pla...
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New podcast out! Bernard C. Moore, my co-author and postdoc in the new project, talks about our book "Space is the Ultimate Luxury", land & conservation, scholarship & activism, and our upcoming research on derelict landscapes and curated escapes. #envhist #envhum afripod.aodl.org/fullPodcast/...
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Namibia Research Day is back! Please join!
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Great project & job opportunity in Usakos, Namibia
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum
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Space is the Ultimate Luxury
"Space is the Ultimate Luxury" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Come join us! I'm looking for a PhD researcher in African environmental history, political ecology, or environmental humanities for my new project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change at the Centre for African Studies Basel! #envhist #envhum #hisotry shorturl.at/rtQbT
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Universität Basel: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities
The PhD will be based at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and be part of the SNSF Starting Grant Project: “Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change”....
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We've already received some excellent abstracts and look forward to a few more in the coming days. Please send in your ideas before February 28!
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Come join us! I'm looking for a PhD researcher in African environmental history, political ecology, or environmental humanities for my new project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change at the Centre for African Studies Basel! #envhist #envhum #hisotry shorturl.at/rtQbT
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Universität Basel: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities
The PhD will be based at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and be part of the SNSF Starting Grant Project: “Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change”....
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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for a special issue of the Namibian Journal of Environment, entitled ‘Conservation and Land in Namibia’. This open access issue examines the interplay between biodiversity conservation, the wildlife economy and land in Namibia. #envhist #envhum #Namibia #conservation
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