Jennifer Hays

Jennifer Hays is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – The Arctic University of Norway. She has been working with San populations in southern Africa for over 20 years, examining the impact of formal education on their lifeways and on traditional knowledge systems and their transmission, and connecting these issues to global concerns, including climate change and biodiversity loss. 

Velina Ninkova

Velina Ninkova is a social and visual anthropologist. She has worked with San communities in southern Africa since 2008. Her research interests include formal and traditional education, indigenous peoples – state relations, and cosmology.

Edmond Dounias

Edmond Dounias is an ethnobiologist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and is a Senior Research Associate to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Using his fieldwork experience in the rainforests of Congo Basin, Sumatra and Borneo, he explores the resilience of the food systems of present-day hunter-gatherers to global change. He also coordinates an international research group dedicated to the co-construction of research combining academic and indigenous expertise. He is currently based in Hanoi as a representative of IRD in Vietnam.

Attila Paksi

Attila Paksi, PhD in Social Sciences, is a Global Development Studies scholar. His research interests include locally initiated community development approaches, the interplay of formal education and Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous research methodologies and hunter-gatherer studies. He has been working with the southern African hunter-gatherers, predominantly in Namibia. He is the European representative of the International Society of Ethnobiology, and an honorary member of the ICCA Consortium, the Global Association for the territories of life.