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University of KwaZulu-Natal Discipline of Geography: Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, ZA

2015-06-01 to present | Senior Lecturer (Geography)
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Adrian Nel

University of Sussex: Brighton, GB

2014-06-01 to 2015-05-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Institute for Development Studies)
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Adrian Nel

University of Otago: Dunedin, NZ

2011-01-10 to 2014-03-31 | PhD Candidate (Geography)
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Adrian Nel

Professional activities (3)

Society of South African Geographers: Dennesig, ZA

2021-06-30 to present | SSAG councillor
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Adrian Nel

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN): Wageningen, NL

2016-06-16 to present | Advisory collective member
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Adrian Nel

Institute for Development Studies (IDS), National University of Science and Technology: Bulawayo, Matabeleland, ZW

2014-06-01 to present | Research Associate
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Adrian Nel

Funding (6)

REPAiR (Resilient and Equitable Nature-based Pathways in South African Rangelands)

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Adrian Nel

Counter Mapping Xolobeni - Lands and Livelihoods

2023-01 to 2025-12 | Grant
NRF (Pretoria, ZA)
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CSRP2203311498

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Adrian Nel

Location Scientific Event: Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Beinnial conference 2023

2023-01 to 2023-06 | Grant
NRF (Pretoria, ZA)
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KIC22083054720

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Adrian Nel

Support for Y Rated Researcher

2020-01 to 2025-01 | Grant
NRF (Pretoria, ZA)
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127263

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Adrian Nel

Green and Social Entrepreneurship for biodiversity conservation and local development

2018-03-27 to 2019-03-27 | Grant
Volkswagen Foundation (Hanover, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 94483
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Amandla neMvelo (Power and Nature): Natural resource governance and power in Kwazulu-Natal.

2017-01 to 2018-12 | Award
Society of South African Geographers (Pretoria, ZA)
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Adrian Nel

Works (32)

Countering urban binaries within a third space: Durban, South Africa's experience as a counter-city

Cities
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Sutherland, Catherine; Nel, Etienne; Nel, Adrian; Hill, Trevor
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Introduction to the special issue - Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of 'resurgent collectivisation' in global land and resource governance

Political Geography
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Cavanagh, Connor; Nel, Adrian
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The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa

Political Geography
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Mthimkhulu, Oscar; Nel, Adrian
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The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy

African Journal of Range and Forage Science
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian; Hoag, Colin
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Alter-nation? Factions, Coalitions and Environmental Governance in the Context of Contested Post-apartheid Local State Democratisation

Urban Forum
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Thakur, Shaheen Sewparsadh; Nel, Adrian
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Taking a back seat: the politicization of municipal environmental governance in South Africa

South African Geographical Journal
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Thakur, Shaheen Sewparsadh; Nel, Adrian
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Between the market and the developmental state - the place and limits of pro-poor ENGO led "waste-preneurship" in South Africa

Local Environment
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Thakur, Shaheen Sewparsadh; Nel, Adrian
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The partially transformed frontier: Aspirations, limitations, and tensions of transfrontier conservation in the Maloti-Drakensberg

Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa: Contemporary Issues and Approaches
2022 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85136078889

Contributors: Mthimkhulu, O.; Nel, A.
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Echoes From the Rocks: Contextualising Land Reform and Resettled Farmer Experiences in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Journal of Asian and African Studies
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian; Mabhena, Clifford
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Pietermaritzburg: Desegregation and the Metropolitan Imperative

GeoJournal Library
2021 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85108222453

Part of ISSN: 22150072 09245499
Contributors: Nel, A.; Epprecht, M.; Haswell, R.
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Biodiversity Economy and conservation territorialization: a pyrrhic strategy in Kwazulu-Natal

Journal of Political Ecology
2021-12-20 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85124725339

Part of ISSN: 10730451
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Conciliatory whiteness: white farmers' accommodations and responses to land reform in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian
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A Social Exchange Analysis of Adaptive Governance in Water Allocation Processes, the Kafue Flats, Zambia

International Journal of the Commons
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Chomba, Machaya Jeff; Hill, Trevor; Nkhata, Bimo; Nel, Adrian
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Fatalism and Dissidence in Dukuduku, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Ongoing Contestations Over Land, Resources and Identities

Journal of Southern African Studies
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Aardenburg, Elizabeth; Nel, Adrian
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An environmental justice perspective on the state of carbon forestry in Uganda

Conservation and Development in Uganda
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85108744443

Contributors: Nel, A.; Lyons, K.; Fisher, J.; Mwayafu, D.
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Assembling value in carbon forestry Practices of assemblage, overflows and counter-performativities in Ugandan carbon forestry

Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage: Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian
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Assembling value in carbon forestry: Practices of assemblage, overflows and counter-performativities in Ugandan carbon forestry

Agri-Environmental Governance as an Assemblage: Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85048689483

Contributors: Nel, A.
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Assessing municipal-level governance responses to climate change in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2018 | Journal article
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Conceptualizing ‘the Urban’ Through the Lens of Durban, South Africa

Urban Forum
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85058297727

Contributors: Sutherland, C.; Scott, D.; Nel, E.; Nel, A.
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Neoliberalism as Ugandan Forestry Discoruse

Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation
2018-11-15 | Book chapter
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Adrian Nel

An environmental justice perspective on the state of carbon forestry in Uganda

Conservation and Development in Uganda
2018-09 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9781315200538
Contributors: Adrian Nel; Kristen Lyons; Janet Fisher; David Mwayafu
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Assembling value in carbon forestry: Practices of assemblage, overflows and counter-performativities in Ugandan carbon forestry

2018-03-28 | Book chapter
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85048689483

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A Slipping Hold? Farm Dweller Precarity in South Africa’s Changing Agrarian Economy and Climate

Land
2018-03-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Donna Hornby; Adrian Nel; Samuel Chademana; Nompilo Khanyile
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A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON SOCIAL EQUITY IN UGANDAN CARBON FORESTRY

Carbon Fix: Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian
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Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda

Journal of Political Ecology
2017-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1073-0451
Contributors: Kristen Lyons; Peter Westoby; Adrian Nel
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Contested carbon: Carbon forestry as a speculatively virtual, falteringly material and disputed territorial assemblage

Geoforum
2017-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Adrian Nel
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A critical reflection on social equity in Ugandan carbon forestry

The Carbon Fix: Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance
2016 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85027261773

Contributors: Nel, A.
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'ZONES OF AWKWARD ENGAGEMENT' IN UGANDAN CARBON FORESTRY

Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Nel, Adrian
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The choreography of sacrifice: Market environmentalism, biopolitics and environmental damage

Geoforum
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84940395006

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The neoliberalisation of forestry governance, market environmentalism and re-territorialisation in Uganda

Third World Quarterly
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84949967209

Contributors: Nel, A.
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Beyond "win-win" narratives: The varieties of Eastern and Southern African carbon forestry and scope for critique

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85027932826

Contributors: Nel, A.; Hill, D.
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Constructing walls of carbon-The complexities of community, carbon sequestration and protected areas in Uganda

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84880511239

Contributors: Nel, A.; Hill, D.
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Peer review (20 reviews for 8 publications/grants)

Review activity for African journal of range & forage science. (1)
Review activity for Annals of the American Association of Geographers. (2)
Review activity for Environment and planning. (2)
Review activity for Environment and planning. (4)
Review activity for Local environment. (2)
Review activity for Society and natural resources. (6)
Review activity for Transactions (2)
Review activity for Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. (1)