Rose Ukeci Uwodha

rebsl — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:12:08 +0000

Rose Ukeci is a doctoral student in sociology and anthropology at the University of Mons in Belgium. Her research focuses on the forms of control, appropriation, and contestation surrounding natural resources, as well as the knowledge and practices that govern their use in the DRC. With a background in geography, she has expertise in cartography and geographic information systems (GIS). Her current research focuses in particular on Ituri and Haut-Uele, where she analyzes extractive dynamics, the ontologies of gold, struggles and discourses in the mines, as well as interethnic conflicts and/or conflicts with Uganda.

Keywords: conflicts, gold mining, anthropocene, vernacular knowledge, resistance, discurse

Winfried Siemerling

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:53:32 +0000

Winfried Siemerlingis University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and
Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black Atlantic
Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015; www.blackatlantic.ca;
French translation forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (coedited), and The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing, and the Politics of Re/Cognition (Routledge 2005,
French translation 2010), He has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
(2014). The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), and African American Literature in Transition 1750-
2015 (Cambridge UP, 2021). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.

Anthropocene | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Rose Ukeci Uwodha

Winfried Siemerling