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Elijah Doro

@KeniardDoro

Environmental historian, ex-tobacco farmer and ex-smoker.

 München, Deutschland
Joined April 2018
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Historiography is the Pablo Escobar of historical writing, enchanting, yet notorious and intimidating!
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NiCHE@NiCHE_Canada13 Feb 2025
Lunchtime Colloquium with @KeniardDoro - @CarsonCenter “Toxic Narratives of the African Wasteocene: Gold Mining and Arsenic in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe).” youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5UBbaA… #envhist #mininghistory
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro

Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro

Humboldt Fellow Elijah Doro will present on “Toxic Narratives of th...

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Our bumper, 30th-anniversary issue comprises 5 commissioned articles, 2 snapshots and 4 research articles, exploring (among many other topics) banana disease, flooding in medieval and early modern flooding Hull and multi-species toxic histories! #envhist liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
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Tomorrow, our Lunchtime #Colloquium series will come to a close with a presentation by Humboldt Fellow @KeniardDoro on “Toxic Narratives of the African #Wasteocene: Gold Mining and Arsenic in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial #Zimbabwe).”
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The sweltering Bavarian summer has scorched me and as a historian I ponder the Weltpolitik and Bernhard von Bülow with incredulity. What place in the sun did the Germans really want?
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Me each time I read a text that has endnotes instead of footnotes...
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Rejection Letter Plot: 1. Profuse thankfulness for effort in applying 2. Apologetic acknlogment that ur application wasn’t the only 1 they received. 3. Bashful candidness that they compared u to others and found u wanting. 4. Unsolicited comfort coz you are sad. 5 Apply again.
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Reflected on the land question(s) in Zimbabwe in this open access piece fresh from the press 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 Notes from the Icehouse: Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe: Global Environment: Vol 17, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
Notes from the Icehouse: Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity...

Notes from the Icehouse: Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity...

This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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We publish research on South Africa's past and the history of southern Africa, covering all time periods, historical approaches, and the many branches of history. Ready to submit that article you have been working on? Here are the instructions for authors. tandfonline.com/action/autho…
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Postdoc opportunity at UFS. This is a good department.
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I am happy to have contributed a piece on postcoloniality and narratives of chemical violence in Africa to this special issue on postcolonial environmental humanities.
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The SPECIAL FOCUS of FES 13, edited by @LucioDeCapitani and Shaul Bassi, is now online! This new issue traces routes that connect postcolonialism and the environmental humanities from various disciplinary perspectives. For further details, please see fesjournal.eu/
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Four of my PhD students finished in minimum time, working on important topics in difficult places. Follow them, they are doing exciting things! @mr_uledy @TeveWekwaMuguti @Ashy71447 @jabulanishabazw
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ICEHO@ICEnvHist9 Dec 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available! This volume was edited by @OGormanEmily, @wssanmartin, Mark Carey, and @WildPasts_. Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community! routledge.com/The-Routledge-… #envhist
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and...

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Check out my latest article in @Environ_History in which i grapple with the intractable conundrum of deciphering slow chemical violence within colonial landscapes and colonial sources. ingentaconnect.com/content/w…
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'Plunder for Profit: The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic', a new blog by @KeniardDoro author of PLUNDER FOR PROFIT 📚 ow.ly/LJjC50O0chn #africanhistory #africanstudies
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Plunder for Profit:  The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic cambridgeblog.org/2023/04/pl… via @CUPAcademic
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Plunder for Profit: The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic - Fifteen...

In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera's investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated the...

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It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of my book on the environmental history of tobacco farming in Zimbabwe by @CambridgeUP. cambridge.org/core/books/plu… doi.org/10.1017/978100909307…

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Cambridge Core - Environmental History - Plunder for Profit

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Retrieved this newly published gem on spatial temporalities of toxicities from my mail box!
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Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 16.1, forthcoming 2023; it's a special issue on 'New Geographies in Animal History'; guest edited by Regina Horta Duarte, Sandra Swart and John Soluri. @GlobalEnviron12 @WildPasts_ #envhum #envhist #animalhistory
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2 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships available at @UniOsloHF @UniOslo_IKOS. Only requirement is that the proposals relate one or more research environments at the department. DEADLINE: Feb. 28 2023. jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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