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Iva Peša

Dr. Iva Peša

Landhaus Fellow

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Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a
80802 Munich


Iva Peša is an assistant professor in contemporary history at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she teaches African and environmental history and coordinates the master’s program Un/sustainable Societies. Her research has focused on the social and environmental history of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her previous research project explored the environmental history of the Copperbelt, a highly industrialized copper mining area. This project examined narratives about pollution and environmental transformation through archives and oral history. She is currently developing a new research project that looks at environmental change on the South African Witwatersrand, the Zambian Copperbelt, and the Nigerian Niger Delta comparatively, using literary and musical sources in addition to oral history and ethnographic methods.

RCC Research Project: Copperbelt Environmentalism: Mining and Environmental Values on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000


Selected Publications:

  • “Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000.” Environment and History 28, no. 2 (2020): 259–284. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734019X15755402985703.
  • with Larmer, Miles, Enid Guene, Benoît Henriet, and Rachel Taylor, eds. Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities. Suffolk: James Currey, 2021.
  • “Crops and Copper: Agriculture and Urbanism on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000.” Journal of Southern African Studies 46, no. 3 (2020): 527–545.
  • Roads through Mwinilunga: A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia. Leiden: Brill, 2019.