l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Visiting Assistant Professor

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

tfrench@middlebury.edu

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753 USA

phone: 802-443-5755

Mozambique

In my dissertation that is entitled, "'Like Leaves Fallen by Wind':
Resilience, Remembrance, and Restoration in central Mozambique,"
I explore conflicts surrounding the reconstruction of landscapes and
livelihoods in the wake of decades of civil war and environmental
disasters and is part of my general interest in the relationship between
social and ecological resilience in the face of violent conflict and
environmental instability. I also reconstruct how humans in central
Mozambique have responded to various disruptions, such as violence,
drought, and relocation, to understand why at some moments these systems
have been resilient and other times vulnerable to collapse. Finally, I
examine the field of power relations at various scales, in which social
actors construct memories and discourses about the landscape during
post-conflict reconstruction. Ongoing research is on the cultural politics of social memory.

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politics ; history ; ecology ; social memory ; landscape ; culture