Call for Abstracts: TFCA’s Symposium
The Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations, a joint initiative of the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, in partnership with the SARChI Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, hosted at the University of Pretoria cordially invite abstract submissions for a symposium on the transformation and governance of Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs).
Proposals are invited from scholars, policy makers, and practitioners across disciplines whose work engages with the topic.
Topics of Interest:
The submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:
- Theorising TFCA spaces and mobilities
- Governance
- Environmental and ecological advances
- Wildlife corridors and their impacts on society and nature
- Economics and investments
- Politics and Diplomacy
- Regional perspectives
- Local dynamics
- Resource rights
- Funding and the future of TFCAs
- TFCAs and Transboundary diseases
- Climate change and TFCAs
- Geopolitics
Submission Guidelines
- Abstract length: 300–500 words
- Submission deadline: 23 May 2025
- Abstracts should be submitted to: Dr Emmanuel Mogende – emogende@ub.ac.bw
For full details and guidelines, please visit: https://bit.ly/3SBM0gA
