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Podcast: In Common
Episode: 122: Decolonizing Conservation with Mathew Mabele
Description: In this episode, Divya speaks with Mathew Mabele. Mathew is a Conservation Social Scientist, currently appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Dodoma in Tanzania. Mathew’s research uses the lenses of political ecology and decolonial thinking to shed light on the systemic structures and processes driving socio-ecological injustices. His work explicitly focuses on knowledge systems, power, and politics over framings of concepts such as biodiversity conservation, protected areas, human-wildlife coexistence, and sustainability.
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Divya discusses Mathew’s work on decolonizing conservation research in Tanzania. This conversation was based on Mathe...