Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Faculty Fellow
Richard Saunders is associate professor in the Department of Politics in 91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Prior to joining to 91亚色 in 2002, he lived for two decades in Southern Africa, where he worked as a journalist and researcher with community-based and not-for-profit organizations. He maintains strong research links with academic and civil society researchers in East and Southern Africa and has drawn on these connections to support the work of current graduate students to facilitate research collaborations between 91亚色 and African partners. Richard鈥檚 research and supervision areas involve themes of state-society relations in the Global South in the contemporary period of neoliberal globalization. A recurring theme of his work involves the innovative forms of resistance and compliance mounted by social constituencies in the face of pressures associated with neoliberal restructuring, including alternative approaches to community health, and challenges to negative public health impacts of key industries, notably the extractives sector. Since the 2010s his research has used these lenses to explore the terrain of extractives sector reforms in East and Southern Africa.
He currently leads a four-year research partnership, 鈥淭he Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa鈥 (2020-2024), funded by SSHRC Partnership Development Grant , and recently launched a six-year Partnership Grant project, 鈥淎frican Extractivism and the Green Transition鈥 (2023-2029), for which he serves as the Project Director. His African extractives research includes investigations into the health impacts at community level of mining and mining taxation instruments, and his partnership team includes African population health researchers.
Research keywords:
Resource governance; critical minerals; just transition; extractives industry; taxation; mining; East and Southern Africa; community health; environment
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
Related Work |
N/A
|
Updates |
You may also be interested in...
Hot off the Press 鈥 Global Governance for Pandemic Prevention and the Wildlife Trade
Dahdaleh associate director Mary E. Wiktorowicz, Dahdaleh graduate student scholar Raphael Aguiar, and their research team recently published an academic journal in The Lancet Planetary Health titled, "Global Governance for Pandemic Prevention and the Wildlife ...Read more about this Post
Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing Present Results at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference
Dahdaleh research fellow James Stinson and research assistant Lee Mcloughlin recently presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico on a panel titled "Decolonizing Alliances for the Post-Carbon Transition." ...Read more about this Post
Recap 鈥 Agent-Based Modelling of the Impacts of Climate Change
On October 5, Dahdaleh postdoctoral research fellow Mohammadali Tofighi introduced computer modelling approaches and applications for modelling health impacts caused by climate change in Malawi. The modelling process can be abstract. Mohammadali discussed a few ...Read more about this Post