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Thembela Kepe is a Professor in the Department of Geography, cross-appointed in the Department of Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). With interdisciplinary training, she has focused her undergraduate teaching on agriculture and land use planning. Her research interests encompass areas such as land rights, rural resistance, politics, and development, particularly through the lens of political ecology. Kepe has conducted extensive field research in southern Africa, especially in her home country of South Africa, while also engaging in research in Liberia and Canada. To date, she has published 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and has co-edited four books covering topics such as Land Claims, Rural Revolts, and Domains of Freedom, Land Justice, and Conservation. Currently, she is completing a biography of her late uncle, a commander and commissar of the underground armed resistance during apartheid South Africa from the 1960s to the early 1990s. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of geography, Kepe was awarded a Fellowship of the Society of South African Geographers (FSSAG) in 2020.
Department of Sociology