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Shathani Montsho

9 articles published

Breaking Through the Scientific Horizons of the „Global West“ — Opening Up to What Lies Ahead

Dr. Martin Timmermann 's talk advocates for a broadening of perspectives in the natural sciences and highlights the methodological gap created by the absence of qualitative research methodology in the natural sciences. While the Western understanding of science remains entrenched in the project of modernity and conceives of nature and culture as strictly separate spheres.…

Más allá del eurocentrismo: Damian Pachón sobre la recuperación del conocimiento, la historia y las formas de vida

El eurocentrismo constituye una construcción ideológica que posiciona a la civilización occidental como el modelo universal de progreso, relegando a las demás culturas a la periferia mediante dispositivos coloniales e historiográficos hegemónicos. Frente a esta hegemonía, se plantea la urgencia de desmantelar la narrativa historiográfica eurocéntrica —desde el helenocentrismo hasta la modernidad— para reconocer los…

Anti-fascism and anti-Nazism in Germany. Voices in Resistance

Anti-fascism and anti-Nazism in Germany: Voices of resistance (Giessen, 29 Nov 2025) Vladimir Betancur Arias (University of Antioquia, Colombia) & Bruno Mayer (trade unionist; Die Linke, Germany) After the Second World War, with the fall of the Third Reich, a process known as denazification [Entnazifizierung] began, designed to dissolve everything related to the dictatorship (policies,…

Kelebogile discussed conservation policy, indigenous rights, and community development in the Okavango Delta.

This presentation was part of ongoing research examining the intersection of conservation policy, indigenous rights, and community development in Botswana's Okavango Delta. The question was whether Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) genuinely empowers indigenous communities or inadvertently marginalises their knowledge systems and governance structures. Using a mixed method and exploratory concurrent design guided by de-colonial…

Sarah presented on Emerging Institutions for Governing the New Pastoral Commons in Kenya

On 30 September,we engaged on a virtual seminar about pastoralist communities in Kenya and how they are devising strategies for securing access to grazing resources in response to fragmentation and privatization of rangelands. Scholars have referred to this phenomenon as  “creating new pastoral commons”, or “reasserting the pastoral commons”. Traditional pastoral commons are governed by…

Poloko presented on Social Variation in Natural Resources Use in the Okavango Delta Wetland System, Botswana

As part of our virtual seminar series, on 18/08/25, Poloko shared insights from his study exploring how rural communities in the Okavango Delta rely on natural resources and how this use varies along the wetland’s hydrological gradient.Using data from 143 households in three distinct zones (upper, middle, and distal), the study revealed that resource use…