![]() Green details why the loss of ecological knowledge, for example indigenous knowledge of plants as medicine, has such dramatic consequences in the Anthropocene. The book grapples with colonial legacies and theorises the deep histories of environmental injustices alongside their ongoing effects in the present. Green argued that the breaking of bonds between life and land causes an almost irrecoverable loss, which marks lived experiences of the Anthropocene on the African continent. We spoke about her recent book Rock I Water I Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). On 17 November 2022, the AFREXTRACT team had a thought-provoking Q&A session with Professor Lesley Green, director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town. The African Anthropocene, in particular, is even more intense because it builds on a colonial loss of land. ![]() ![]() The Anthropocene marks the acceleration of environmental change and damage across the globe. ![]()
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