The panel - Present and Imminent - a south/south sure/sur dialogue hosted by CEMSudAfrica - https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=cemsudafrica - is on in 14 hours. Join us and be part of this.

Each of the panelists will discuss their work, and then address the links between urban and rural, and how climate change – including global warming drought and extreme weather events – interrupts flows of foods, cash and bodies between rural and urban areas.  Each of the participants works on some aspect of this:

Cristina Oehmichen Bazán Institute of Anthropological Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Cristina Oehmichen holds a PhD in Anthropology from UNAM. Cristina is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research, and a professor of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology and the Degree in Anthropology at the same institution. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, level II, and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She has received three national awards (1986, 1998 and 2001) by the National Institute of Anthropology and History. In 2005, the Canadian Government, through the International Council for Canadian Studies, awarded her the Award for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Cristina has published chapters in books, books, and articles in specialized journals.  Since 2016, she is editor of the journal Antropología Americana of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. She is currently working on "Mobilities, inequalities and inter-ethnic relations" and on themes of "Anthropology of Tourism." 

Paola Velasco Santos Institute of Anthropological Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Paola Velasco Santos is a social anthropologist with PhD in anthropology from UNAM, and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers, Level I. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology, political ecology, anthropological theory, and methodology. Paola is the author of the book “Ríos de contradicción. Contaminación, ecología política y sujetos rurales en Nativitas, Tlaxcala (2017-IIA).” In 2018, she was awarded the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Prize for Best Anthropology Research Book by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Since 2009, she works on projects related to river pollution, water overexploitation, local denim manufacturing, historical conditions of precarity and health problems in Central Mexico. She is also working on a project concerned with a hydro-political cycle and the impact on the socio-natural relations and reconfigurations, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Jo Vearey African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Jo Vearey has a background in public health and her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections between migration and health. She is an Associate Professor and Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at Wits University in Johannesburg where she coordinates the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp). Jo also directs the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence in Migration and Mobility – hosted by the ACMS – and is vice-chair of the Global Migration, Health, and Development Research Initiative (MHADRI). With a commitment to social justice, Jo’s research explores ways to generate and communicate knowledge to improve responses to migration, health and wellbeing in the southern African region.  Fundamental to her research practice is participation in policy processes at international and local levels. This includes exploring approaches to address epistemic injustice in the development of appropriate policy responses.

Khangelani Moyo Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Khangelani Moyo is an Associate Researcher at the Global Change Institute (GCI), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has academic training in migration studies, urban studies, sociology and social anthropology. He completed his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2017, focusing on migrant mobilities in urban spaces and how their spatial identities are negotiated in the City of Johannesburg. His research interests include migration management, refugee governance, migrant transnationalism, spatial identity in the city, and social vulnerabilities in the urban periphery. He is also an associate at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute in Freiburg, where he collaborates on a research project on the political stakes of refugee governance in Africa.