KUASS（Kyoto University African Studies Seminar）

南部アフリカの環境史 1. 南アフリカの金採掘の環境史：環境人種差別に焦点をあてて Gold mining industry partly triggered the industrialization of South Africa and changed the international monetary system from silver stan…

Cooperative foraging and breeding have been key to human adaptation in diverse environments as well as demographic success of our species. My research examines women’s cooperative …

In the 1980s, mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) was considered an ideal anti-desertification tree due to its high capacity to stabilize sand dunes, survive inhospitable environments, a…

This lecture aims to rekindle the recognition of wildlife as a vital resource, integral to ecological balance and human well-being, with a particular focus on Africa and the sustai…

This seminar will examine the role of the “politics of gender” in transitional justice through an interrogation of past and present processes in Africa. The concept of transitional…

第124回 KUASSは「中部アフリカにおける野生動物と地域知」と題し、中部アフリカの野生動物、狩猟採集民、ブッシュミート問題を研究している海外の研究者4名と、地球研Fashloksメンバーによるシンポジウム形式で開かれます。1日目が総合地球環境学研究所（要登録）、2日目が京大アフリカセンターでの開催となります。 共催：京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センター、…

Urban residents in Ethiopia have been struggling with the various state of food insecurity for decades. Government employees in general, and low-income urban residents in particula…

The Nyungwe forest, South West of Rwanda, was erected into a national park, protected in 2005 under the law n° 22/2005 on November 21, 2005. Up until then the 1209 square km was re…

This paper explores the intertwined biographies of a Tanzanian toxicologist and pesticide expert, Dr Vera Ngowi (*1955), and the Tanzanian Pesticide Research Institute, TPRI, a for…

Analyses of the labor market in Africa reveal a number of paradoxes. First, despite sustained GDP growth rates (around 5% and above, and over more than a decade, in many countries)…