Harry Wels
Associate Professor African Organisational Anthropology
- Name
- Dr. H. Wels
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3771
- h.wels@asc.leidenuniv.nl
For an overview of Harry Wels' research and publications, visit his profile on the ASCL website.
Harry Wels is the Publications Manager of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He was trained as an organizational anthropologist.
His research is primarily focused on South and Southern Africa and is about organizational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation and touches and relates to broader issues in animal studies.
Since May 2014 Harry is Professor (extraordinary) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Associate Professor African Organisational Anthropology
- Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Wetenschappelijke staf
- Kamsteeg F. & Wels H. (2022), ‘Double barrelled’ ironies in history: a coincidental discovery of Cecil John Rhodes at the Zuid-Afrikahuis in Amsterdam. In: Stobbe J., Deen R. & Waal M. van der (Eds.), Magic visions: portraying and inventing South Africa with lantern slides. Zuid-Afrikahuis (SZAHN) series no. 2. Amsterdam: Zuid-Afrika Huis Cultuur en Kenniscentrum. 223-238.
- Wels H. & Kamsteeg F. (2022), Wild pedagogies for doing multispecies organizational ethnography: using the tracking craft of the Southern African San. In: Tallberg L. & Hamilton L. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of animal organization studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 159-178.
- Shefer T., Sabelis I. & Wels H. (2022), Challenging patriarchal, colonial patronage in anthropocentric engagements with 'nature conservation' : narratives of white male game rangers in Southern Africa. In: Mellström U. & Pease B. (Eds.), Posthumanism and the man question: beyond anthropocentric masculinities. London: Routledge.
- Alwahaibi I., Dauletova V. & Wels H. (2022), Camels in the Bedouin community of Oman: beyond the human-animal binary, Anthrozoos 36(1): 1-14.
- Boonzaaier C. & Wels H. (2022), The call of ‘thinking wild’ in times of climate disaster : indigenous wisdom from Southern Africa. In: Okech R., Kieti D. & Duim V.R. van der (Eds.), Tourism, climate change and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. ASCL occasional publications no. 46. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). 139-151.
- Gewald J.B., Kamsteeg F. & Wels H. (2019), 'New ordinary' of 'winners' : South Africa as part of BRICS, Clingendael Spectator 73(1): .
- Wels H., 2019: the year of decentring the human in African Studies?. ASCL Africanist Blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Gewald J.B., Kamsteeg F. & Wels H., Crucial elections in South Africa. ASCL Africanist Blog. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). [blog entry].
- Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M.J. & Wels H. (Eds.) (2019), Nature conservation in Southern Africa: morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?. African dynamics. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (Eds.) (2018), Nature conservation in Southern Africa: morality and marginality - towards sentient conservation?. African dynamics no. 16. Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
- Wels H. (2018), Rewilding white lions : conservation through the eyes of carnivores?. In: Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (Eds.), Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?. African dynamics no. 16. Leiden [etc.]: Brill. 67-98.
- Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (2018), Introduction : people, animals, morality, and marginality: reconfiguring wildlife conservation in Southern Africa. In: Gewald J.B., Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (Eds.), Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?. African dynamics no. 16. Leiden [etc.]: Brill. 1-21.
- Kamsteeg F. & Wels H. (2018), The 'end of organization' and morality : a short reflexive essay in honour of Professor Peter Groenewegen. In: Moser C. (Ed.), The end of organization : in honour of Prof. Peter Groenewegen. Amsterdam: Department of Organization Sciences. 98-103.
- Boonzaaier C. & Wels H. (2018), Reconciling neo-liberalism and community based tourism in South Africa : the African Ivory route, EuropeNow (1 March 2018): .
- Dijk R.A. van, Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (2017), The critical fence : a Dietzian reflection on divergent fieldwork. In: Beek W.E.A. van, Damen J.C.M. & Foeken D.W.J. (Eds.), The face of Africa :.essays in honour of Ton Dietz. ASCL occasional publications no. 28. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). 133-247.
- Sabelis I., Vliet T. van & Wels H. (2016), Hidden lives, invisible vocation?: giving voice to game rangers’ wives in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In: Phillips M. & Rumens N. (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on ecofeminism. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies. London: Routlegde. 132-149.
- Boonzaaier C. & Wels H. (2016), Juxtaposing a cultural reading of landscape with institutional boundaries: the case of the Masebe Nature Reserve, South Africa, Landscape research 41(8): 922-933.
- Spierenburg M.J. & Wels H. (2016), Fencing predators: hunters and prey on South African game farms. In: , On the meaning and nature of contested 21st century political ecologies: book of abstracts. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research Centre (WUR). 190-191.
- Wels H. (2015), Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos. Afrika-Studiecentrum series no. 34. Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
- Evers S., Spierenburg M. & Wels H. (2005), Competing jurisdictions: settling land claims in Africa. Afrika-Studiecentrum series no. 6. Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
- Wels H. (2003), Private wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe: joint ventures and reciprocity. Afrika-Studiecentrum series no. 2. Leiden: Brill.
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- Universitair Hoofddocent