Luregn Lenggenhager is a post-doc in the international research project "Space in Time" at the Centre for African Studies Basel. Last year he submitted his PhD with the title Ruling Nature, Controlling People: Nature Conservation, Development and War in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s. During his PhD he was an assistant at the History Department of the University of Zurich, where he continues to work as a lecturer. His fields of research include environmental history, historical geography and borderlands in Southern Africa.