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Biography
Danstan Mukono, hold a PhD in Sociology and he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His teaching and research interests includes social welfare and social insecurities among marginal groups such as sanitation workers and waste pickers, climate change and marginalization, climate change governance, qualitative methodologies, gender relations and health, sociological theories. He has been involved in a number national and international projects related to the plights of women and adolescent girls from underrepresented social groups. As early carrier researcher, he has published on themes related to social insecurities, urbanisation and waste pickers, and climate change governance in the Southern Tanzania. Currently, he researches and writing on the history, politics, and power dynamics surrounding conservation models in Tanzania. Building on interdisciplinary approaches from sociology, anthropology, political ecology and intersectionality he seeks to engage in a more transformative praxis with focus to climate change vulnerability with a focus on how it intersects with social differences in Tanzania and global South in general. These researches; theoretically, empirically and practically underscores how knowledge/thoughts as power shapes social actors’ materiality and mentality. Of recent, he is passionate about design thinking as key methodological and practical tool for inclusive social innovation.
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Social Welfare, climate change, qualitative research, political ecology
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Mabele, M. B & Mukono, D. (forthcoming). The coloniality of forestry: decolonial possibilities and African environmental ethics. In Routledge New Hand Book of Political Ecology (eds). Ariadne Collins, Jess Hope & Elia Apostolopoulou
Mukono, D. (2025). Revealing REDD+ through intersectionality from below: an exploration of everyday subjectivities in rural southern Tanzania. Local Environment.653-668. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2436019
Mukono, D. (2024) Beyond the REDD+ neoliberal environmentality and its discontents in Southern Tanzania. Journal of Political Ecology, 31(1):200-216.
Mukono, D. (2022). Revisiting Reconceptualization of Power Relation s and REDD+ Scholarship in the Global South. Tanzania Journal of Sociology, 8(1), 1-32.
Mukono, D. (2022). Rethinking Power and Forestry Governance in Colonial and Post-Colonial Tanzania: Towards a Poststructural Political Ecology. The African Review, 1(aop), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1163/1821889x-bja10034
Mukono, D., & Sambaiga, R. (2022). Negotiating power from the margins: encountering everyday experiences and contestations to REDD+ in Southern Tanzania. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4), 2132-2152. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211052877
Baez-Camargo, Claudia and Costa, Jacopo and Koechlin, Lucy and Mukono, Danstan and Lugolobi, Robert. (2021) Informal networks as investment in East Africa. Basel. https://edoc.unibas.ch/84989/
Baez Camargo, Claudia, Jacopo Costa, Lucy Koechlin, and Danstan Mukono. (2021). “Case studies from Tanzania: GI-ACE research on informal networks and corruption.” Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (GIACE). https://ace.globalintegrityorg/resurces/tanzania-case-study/
Mukono, D. (2021). Envisioning REDD+ and Environmentality Discourses in Lindi Community-based Carbon Enterprises in Rural Southern Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Sociology, 7(1), 20-47. https://tajoso.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjs/article/view/56.