Prof. Sian Sullivan
@siansullivan.bsky.social
Prof. of Environment & Culture, BSU | Research Associate Gobabeb Namib Research Institute | #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalAnthropology #ConservationPolitics http://the-natural-capital-myth.net http://www.etosha-kunene-histories.net www.futurepasts.net
🌍 New co-authored article in the Namibian Journal of Environment - special issue on #Conservation and #Land (more below!) Cover by Clarance Geingob, who has completed multiple illustrations for research we're doing on one of the first anti-colonial Uprisings in north-west #Namibia (1897-1898)
🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation! 'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia' www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia
Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…
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"The Power of Praising #Bees 🐝" – new article in 'Doek! A Literary Magazine From Namibia' @doeklitmag, written with my longstanding Namibian research collaborator, Welhemina Suro Ganuses of @SRTNamibia 🦏 doeklitmag.com/the-power-o...
The Power Of Praising Bees
“Acoustic Pasts, Echoed Futures: Auralgraph from !Huidi-ǁgams, Omaruru, 1954.” — by Welhemina Suro Ganuses & Sian Sullivan • Curated by Basler Afrika Bibliographien Archives.
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#openaccess version now available 🙂 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist...
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Prof. Sian Sullivan@siansullivan.bsky.social · last yr.Pretty excited that this co-authored Essay in @ConBiology is out: "Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science #conservation research" It should be #openaccess, but currently isn't for some reason. It can be read on ResearchGate though: link shared below.
Pretty excited that this co-authored Essay in @ConBiology is out: "Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science #conservation research" It should be #openaccess, but currently isn't for some reason. It can be read on ResearchGate though: link shared below.
☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻New article in the J. of #HumanRights & the #Environment, engaging with ☢️ heightened nuclear threats in context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ⛽ frictions between fossil-fuel & nuclear economies 🇳🇦 & contexts of #genocide, building on historical research in #Namibia
Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215
We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Journal of Political Ecology
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A great article on Michel Foucault masterwork on discipline and power from 1975.
‘A dark masterpiece’: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish at 50
One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our age of digital surveillance.
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Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!
Luregn@luregn.bsky.social · 2y agoCome join us! I'm looking for a PhD researcher in African environmental history, political ecology, or environmental humanities for my new project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change at the Centre for African Studies Basel! #envhist #envhum #hisotry shorturl.at/rtQbT
Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚
Conservation Namibia@conservnamibia.bsky.social · 2y agoCreating a database of Namibia's 4,200 indigenous plants is a mammoth task! Herta and Sofia started this process by focusing on the 700 plants that occur only in Namibia (endemic) and the 715 near-endemic species. There is a role for citizen science too! conservationnamibia.com/articles/uni...
🌳 In 2011, the Ugamaa Community Resource Team helped the Hadzabe to secure land rights for part of their territory. 🔥 With support from The Nature Conservancy. 💲 In 2012, Carbon Tanzania set up a REDD project on the Hadzabe's land. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/investigat...
Investigative report on the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project in Tanzania: “This is a new form of colonialism”
"Very few Hadzabe understand the carbon project.”
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⬇️A quite subtle piece on #trophyhunting & #socialjustice "If community benefits are minimal, #trophyhunting is perceived as a #colonial pursuit, and genuine grassroots participation in decision-making is lacking, is the [social justice] argument valid?" therevelator.org/greenwashing...
Greenwashing and Social Justice: Pro-Trophy Hunting Narratives Need Careful Examination • The Revelator
Arguments abound on the benefits and dangers of trophy hunting. We need a careful, measured approach to analyzing how it’s justified and promoted.
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We've published another new article 'online first' in 'Global Environment'; Martin Kalb on 'Mules, Global Networks, and Settler Colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915': doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #africa #colonialism @globalenvironment.bsky.social
#Namibia 'n conservancies fight to block mining threat to #Rhinos Two Namibian community conservancies and a tourism operator have turned to the courts to block development of a tin mine.. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/nami...
Namibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos
When a copper mine started operating in Namibia’s //Huab Conservancy in 2021, blasting of rock and heavy machinery disturbed the area’s critically endangered southern black rhinos, and they moved out ...
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☀️New film! made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) & Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects. Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia vimeo.com/1035751265
ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture
Made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects, this film documents "ǂNūkhoe Xûn",…
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An article I didn't want to write: 'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)' J. of Political Ecology ⬇️ journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexit...
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Cities and Memory@citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat do the most famous sights in the world sound like? 🏛️🎧 Submit your recordings of any UNESCO World Heritage site or item of intangible heritage before the end of 2024 to be part of our next major global sound project, covering tourism, preservation & sonic culture! citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Remembering #ClaremontRoad, #Leyton ... the era of the Criminal Justice Act, targeting illegal raves, squatters and Travellers... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’
Thirty years ago, more than 500 activists united to save a street – and their actions marked a major turning-point in the environmental movement
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📢 #Botswana journalist uncovers who really benefits from #TrophyHunting (spoiler alert: not the local communities) & how plagued the industry is by #corruption, mismanagement & conflicts of interest‼️ 👉 guardiansun.co.bw/news/middlem... @siansullivan.bsky.social @mongabay.bsky.social
Middlemen not communities, benefit from trophy hunting
BG Correspondent - Why do politicians inflate the value of recreational hunting and community benefits when the economic evidence in favour of trophy hunting is thin, JOEL KONOPO asks.
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“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). “I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."
Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation’ after travelling length of Gaza
James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter
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🦁 #Hunting for #conservation: New J. Conservation Biology book review of - "Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics" by Julia Fa, Stephan Funk & Robert Nasi + - "Trophy Hunting" by @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social & @adamhartscience.bsky.social #FreeAccess ⬇️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Hunting for conservation
<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
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Looking forward to discussing Ben Neimark's new book: "Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious #Conservation Labor in #Madagascar" #bioprospecting #biopiracy #biodiversityoffsetting #extractivism #ethnobotany 🌿 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
International Launch of B.Neimark's New Book: Hottest of the Hotspots
International Launch of Benjamin Neimark's New Book: 'Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar'
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Call for papers for @digitalclimate.bsky.social panel at RGS-IBG conference 2024! #climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
Digital Climate Futures@digitalclimate.bsky.social · 2y agoCall for Papers for @RGS_IBG annual conference 2024 De- or re-colonising climate adaptation? Indigenous and local knowledge in the climate adaptation machine Deadline: Feb 26 @giobettini.bsky.social @gioli.bsky.social @siansullivan.bsky.social www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk/index.php/rg.
Areas of Apurinã territory in Brazil's southern Amazonas state were sold under an NFT project that promised to preserve forest & generate carbon credits 🌎 Indigenous communities were not properly consulted The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:
Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
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🎈Happy to share the 4min trailer from our new Future Pasts and Etosha-Kunene Histories research film “Lands That History Forgot”. Full film on its way soon. #oralhistory #memorymapping #Namibia #conservation vimeo.com/890049250
Lands That History Forgot – Trailer
Short Trailer for new film from oral history and heritage mapping research through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net)…
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Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...
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Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...
openbookpublishers.com