Shirley Brooks
Education
2001 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Geography
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
Thesis Title: “Changing Nature: A Critical Historical Geography of the Umfolozi and Hluhluwe Game Reserves, Zululand, 1887-1947”
Sub-discipline: Historical/cultural geography
1990 MASTER OF ARTS, Geography
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
Thesis Title: “Playing the Game: The Struggle for Wildlife Protection in Zululand, 1910 1930”
1986 BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS), History
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Degree awarded Cum Laude
1985 BACHELOR OF ARTS, Geography and History
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL
Pietermaritzburg
Research interests
Colonial and postcolonial history and politics of nature conservation
Historical geography of land issues and agrarian change; land reform
Cultural geography, in particular nature-culture relations
Tourism geographies and the construction of wilderness landscape
Political ecology
Animal geographies
Emotional geographies, sense of place
Regional focus: South Africa, especially KwaZulu-Natal