Once seen as a symbol of progress, industrial mining in southern Africa has led to economic collapse, social disruption, and environmental degradation. This volume explores mining’s deep impacts, not just on humans but also on plants, animals, air, and water. By decentering the human, it offers new research directions for understanding mining’s legacy amid the global Climate Crisis.

Current status: In progress

Jan-Bart Gewald reviews the Jules Skotnes-Brown, "Segregated Species" published in The British Journal for the History of Science

Jan-Bart Gewald reviews Gabrielle Hecht “Residual Governance” for the journal  Africa.

In this paper, Jan-Bart Gewald shows a possible relationship between diamond mining and the extinction of the Quagga (Equus Quagga Quagga). The world’s last living Quagga died in the stables under the library of Amsterdam Artis (Zoo) on the 12th of August 1883.