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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3031-8074

Christine Noe Pallangyo

Associate Professor

College of Social Sciences

Socio-sciences

Biography

She is an Associate Professor of Human Geography and the current Principal of College of Social Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam . Her work has been on conservation and development politics and seeks to explain how local and international development politics influence rural livelihoods, land tenure and security dynamics in Tanzania. She co-edited two recent books with Dan Brockington on ‘Prosperity in Rural Africa (2021) available here: DOI 10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001 and with Stefano Ponte on ‘Contested Sustainability’ (2022) which is available here: DOI 10.1515/9781800105621. Other important publications include journal articles on Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? (2020); Public and private authority interactions in conservation and development (2020); Berlin Curse in Tanzania’s Selous World Heritage Site (2019) and Graduated Sovereignty in Tanzania’s mineral sector (2019). To learn more about her scholarly works use the following links; 

 

Active Research Accounts:

ORCID iD:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3031-8074 

Scopus Author ID: 41862314200 

 

Research Interest

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. Noe, C, Brockington, D, John, R, Bwagalilo, F and Kamnde, K (2019): Interrogating wildlife conservation partnerships in Rufiji and Kilwa districts: the context, process and sustainability outcomes. NEPSUS working paper, Available here: https://www.nepsus.info/
  2. Ponte, S, Noe, C, Kweka, O, Mshale, B, Sulle, E, Brockington, D, Kalumanga, E, Ahamed, R,  Budeanu, A, Mwamfupe, A, Henriksen, L, Olwig, M, Silvano, P, Namkesa, F, John, R, Katikiro, R, Mabele, M (2017): New Partnerships for Sustainability (NEPSUS): Concepts, research design and methodologies. NEPSUS Working Paper 2017/1
  3. Noe, C, Budeanu, A, Sulle, E, Olwig, M, Brockington, D, John, R (2017):  Partnerships for wildlife protection and their sustainability outcomes: A literature review. NEPSUS Working Paper 2017/2
  4. Noe, C, Sulle, E and Brockington, D (2017): Tanzania’s partnership landscape: Convergence and divergence in the wildlife sector. NEPSUS Working Paper 2017/3
  5. Noe, C (2011): Celebrity and the environment: fame, wealth and power in conservation. Book review: South African Geographical Journal, 93 (2) 213–214 

Contacts

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Projects

A five-year DANIDA funded project (2020-2025) on ‘The paradoxes of climate-smart coffee (PACSMAC) in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School and Jimma University in Ethiopia. More information: https://pacsmac.com/ 

A four-year (2024-2027) Science for Africa Foundation-funded project on Critical Zones Africa South and East (CzASE) in collaboration with the University of Cape Town. More information: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/envhumsouth/czase

Publications

EDITED BOOKS 

  1. Ponte, S, Noe, C & Brockington, D (Eds) (2022): Contested Sustainability - The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. Link: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847013224/contested-sustainability/
  2. Brockington, D. and Noe, C. (eds), 2021. Prosperity in Rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania.  Oxford University Press. Link: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198865872.001.0001/oso-9780198865872

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

  1. Minja, R.A., Ponte, S., Mwamfupe, A., Noe, C. and Brockington, D., 2022. The Legitimacy of Sustainability Initiatives in Tanzania. The European Journal of Development Research, 35(3), pp.453-482.
  2. Howland, O, Brockington, D and Noe C (2020): Women’s Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihoods Strategies in Context of Agricultural Transformations in Tanzania. Journal of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. DOI: 10.177/2277976020925318
  3. Noe, C (2020): Regionalizing Tourism through Transfrontier Conservation: Implications for Local Development in Southern Africa. Journal of The African Review 47 (1): 1-23
  4. Ponte, S, Noe, C and Mwamfupe, A (2020): Private and public authority interactions and the functional quality of sustainability governance: Lessons from conservation and development initiatives in Tanzania. Accepted in the Journal of Regulation and Governance
  5. Noe, C (2019): Graduated Sovereignty and Tanzania's mineral sector. UTAFITI Journal of African Perspectives, 14(2) 257-280
  6. Noe, C (2019): The Berlin curse in Tanzania:(re) making of the selous world heritage property. South African Geographical Journal 101(3), pp.379-398.
  7. Bluwstein, J, Lund, J, Askew, J, Noe, C, Odgaard, R, Maganga, F and  Engström, L (2018): Between Dependence and Deprivation: The Interlocking Nature of Land Alienation in Tanzania. Journal of Agrarian Change, pp. 1-25; doi: 10.1111/joac.12271
  8. Brockington, D, Howland, O, Loiske, M, Mnzava, M and Noe, C (2018): Economic Growth, Rural Assets and Prosperity. Exploring the implications of a twenty-year record of asset growth in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies 56(2) 217-243
  9. Noe, C and Kangalawe, R (2015): Wildlife Protection, Community Participation in Conservation, and (Dis) Empowerment in Southern Tanzania. Conservation and Society 13 (3), 244-250
  10. Olwig, M, Noe, C,Kangalawe, R and E Luoga (2015): Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania. Third World Quarterly 36 (12), 2316-2336
  11. Noe, C (2013): Contesting village land: uranium and sport hunting in Mbarang’andu Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania. Journal of Utafiti, 10(1) 39-60
  12. Ramutsindela, M and Noe, C (2012): Scalar thickening: Wildlife Management Areas and conservation scales in south-eastern Tanzania. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33(2)137-151
  13. Kangalawe, R.Y.M and Noe, C (2012): Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation in Namtumbo District, Tanzania. Journal of Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 162(1)90– 100
  14. Noe, C (2010): Spatiality and 'borderlessness' in transfrontier conservation areas. South African Geographical Journal, 92(2)144 -159 

BOOK CHAPTERS 

  1. Noe, C and Mwamfupe, A (2022): Circumscribing local development: the role of community-based conservation in Tanzania. In McCusker, B, Ahmed, W, Ramutsindela, M and Solís, P (Eds), pp 285. London, Routledge
  2. Brockington, D., Olivia Howland, Vesa-Mati Loiske, Mnzava, M and Noe, C (2019). ‘Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania.’ In Tanzanian Development: A comparative perspective. Edited by D. Potts, Boydell and Brewer, Witney.
  3. Noe, C (2015): Navigating the Change: Public responses to land rights reallocation. In Mkandala, R (Ed): Understanding Political Change: Moving beyond the reading of political leaves in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota
  4. Noe, C. (2015). The Selous-NiassaTransfrontier Conservation Area and Tourism: Evolution, Benefits and Challenges. In Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa (pp. 181-201). Netherlands, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9529-6_10
  5. Ramutsindela, M and Noe, C (2015): Scalar politics and conservation in Tanzania. In Bryant, R: The International Handbook of Political Ecology: 501-511. London, Edward Elgar Publishing
  6. Noe, C (2014): Washoroba and the proliferation of borders in Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor. Book chapter in Ramutsindela, M (Ed): Cartographies of Nature: How Nature Conservation Animates Borders (pp. 113-139). Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing