Kristina Monroe Bishop

Ph.D. Student, Geography & Regional Development

M.A. Geography, 2004 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.A. International Studies, 1997 Ohio University, Athens, OH

Phone: (520) 621-2904
FAX: (520) 621-2889
E-mail: kmbishop@email.arizona.edu

424 Harvill Building, Box #2
Tucson, AZ 85721-0076
USA

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Research

My research examines how colonial regulations around medicine in South Africa defined indigenous medicine. Regulations strictly limited the use of modern medicine or the use of the supernatural (viewed as witchcraft) by any indigenous medical practitioner. The result was healers limited to the use of local, natural herbs as their only treatment. I am examining how today's policies around medicine for the treatment of HIV/AIDS reflect or reconfigure these colonial notions of medicine, by once again promoting the use of the natural for healing.

I have also studied the history of plantation forestry in South Africa. I have examined how afforestation in Mpumalanga Province historically was conducted in part, through force removals of native Africans from their land. This, in turn, created a new, cheap, labor force of displaced people. The impacts of this can be seen in the current geography of parts of Mpumalanga Province today.