Prof. Sian Sullivan
@siansullivan.bsky.social
Prof. of Environment & Culture, BSU | Research Associate Gobabeb Namib Research Institute | #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalAnthropology #ConservationPolitics
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🦏 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 & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'
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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…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🦏 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 & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
"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...
– 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.
doeklitmag.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"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...
– 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...
April 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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.
"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.
April 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
"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
☢️ 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
March 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻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
☢️ 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
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Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215
March 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215
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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
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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
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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.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A great article on Michel Foucault masterwork on discipline and power from 1975.
Reposted by Prof. Sian Sullivan
Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!
Come 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
Universität Basel: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities
The PhD will be based at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and be part of the SNSF Starting Grant Project: “Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change”....
shorturl.at
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!
Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚
Creating 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...
conservationnamibia.com/articles/uni...
Uniquely Namibian: Namibia's Endemic and Near-Endemic Plants
Namibia is home to over 1,400 plants that occur only or mainly in the country. Botanists are collecting information about these plants through a special project.
conservationnamibia.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚
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🌳 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...
🔥 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.”
reddmonitor.substack.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:28 AM
🌳 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...
🔥 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...
⬇️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...
"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.
therevelator.org
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
⬇️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...
"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...
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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
December 11, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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
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#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...
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 ...
news.mongabay.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM
#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...
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...
☀️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
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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December 4, 2024 at 11:22 AM
☀️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
Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia
vimeo.com/1035751265
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...
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu
December 1, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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/...
What 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/
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/
Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
citiesandmemory.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Remembering #ClaremontRoad, #Leyton ... the era of the Criminal Justice Act, targeting illegal raves, squatters and Travellers...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Remembering #ClaremontRoad, #Leyton ... the era of the Criminal Justice Act, targeting illegal raves, squatters and Travellers...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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
👉 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.
guardiansun.co.bw
June 21, 2024 at 8:42 AM
📢 #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
👉 guardiansun.co.bw/news/middlem... @siansullivan.bsky.social @mongabay.bsky.social
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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."
“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
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
“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."
“I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."
🦁 #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...
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.
doi.org
March 22, 2024 at 8:54 AM
🦁 #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...
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...
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...
"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'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 13, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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...
"Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious #Conservation Labor in #Madagascar"
#bioprospecting #biopiracy #biodiversityoffsetting #extractivism #ethnobotany 🌿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
Call for papers for @digitalclimate.bsky.social panel at RGS-IBG conference 2024!
#climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
#climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
Call 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.
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.
February 13, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Call for papers for @digitalclimate.bsky.social panel at RGS-IBG conference 2024!
#climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
#climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
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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:
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.
news.mongabay.com
December 26, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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:
Indigenous communities were not properly consulted
The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:
Reposted by Prof. Sian Sullivan
