Amanda Mokoena

Amanda Mokoena is anthropologist-in-training interested in unsolvable existential questions of the tensions between society and science, and the impact of this divide on the natural environment and more-than-human life forms. Currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, she is an African Feminist and was trained at the African Gender Institute housed at the University of Cape Town, where taught the politics of knowledge production in the newly renamed African Feminist Studies department.  She is a keen mountaineer from South Africa with roots in the Kingdom in the Sky- a place of snowy winters and endless mountain peaks- Lesotho. Her research is on the water-energy-food nexus in urban South Africa, with a focus on water insecurity.