Prof Esther Turnhout🦄🌎🌼💚

@estherturnhout.bsky.social

Chair of Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente. Explores ways to transform science & create better knowledge. Posts about #Nature #Conservation #STS #Politics of Knowledge #IPBES #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #Justice

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions

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First article from my PhD is out! ‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Cover of the article with title of the article ‘Provincializing foot-and-mouth disease: the construction of the african buffalo as disease reservoir in Botswana, 1961-1976’ shown above a monochrome picture of a herd of buffaloes
The White Horse Press@whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We’ve posted 2 new #openaccess articles in @globalenvironment.bsky.social: W. van Engelen et al., ‘African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana’; & a review of R.K. Barman’s ‘River, Society and Culture’ (@livunipress.bsky.social). Both here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/0/0. #envhist

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

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"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry

When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

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This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Stay tuned for future posts about this collection. Also, check out co-author Esther’s talk at the Forest Multiple symposium and other episodes on Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...

The Forest Multiple: Esther Turnhout — Smart Forests Atlas

In this radio episode recorded at The Forest Multiple symposium in October 2022, we hear a panel talk by Prof Esther Turnhout, Chair of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Twente. Pa...

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While acknowledging that pluriversal potential can be provisional and precarious, the authors emphasise that drones could become part of projects and designs that resonate with Indigenous territorial rights and multispecies care.

‘Ik hoor nog weleens om me heen: wat ben je links geworden. Dat is een verkeerde aanname. Ik zei dit soort dingen al in de jaren zeventig. Toen was daar niets radicaal aan. Het is de samenleving die zo rechts is geworden, zo verschrikkelijk rechts.’ Jan Terlouw, 1931-2025