Tafadzwa Mushonga

Dr Mushonga leads the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship's Environmental Humanities Project, which critically engages with the multidisciplinary issues of climate change and climate justice in Africa. The project researches extractivism and the environment. It is the Centre’s Environmental Humanities signature project, which seeks to address environmental impacts associated with exploitation of resources in Africa. Due to her involvement in this project, and broad interest in Environmental Humanities, Dr Mushonga has been recently nominated to the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institute/Mellon Global Humanities Institute on “Climate Justice and Problems of Scale.”

Dr Mushonga is widely published. Her research falls within the broad field of political ecology, with specific interest in environment and society.

Her PhD work, completed under the auspices of the Environmental Humanities South Programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, contributes to the body of work critiquing the militarisation of conservation.

Before her PhD, Dr Mushonga worked in the Zimbabwe environment sector for over eight years as a public officer responsible for social forestry related issues.