via Bath Spa University Environmental Humanities Research Centre Public Lecture; Mining the Skeleton Coast: Nature, Capital and History; by Dr…
Professor Sian Sullivan and the Future Pasts AHRC Project invited to blog about their research on the AHRC Heritage Priority Area Platform
How many fingers am I holding up?
In a famous scene in George Orwell’s 1984, Inner Party member O’Brien tests protagonist Winston Smith’s allegiance to Party truth…
Intersections Seminar on ‘Making nature investable’, University of Toronto
Originally posted on Intersections:
Friday, March 9, 2018 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Sian Sullivan Sidney Smith Hall – SS5017A…
Nature 3.0 – Will blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies save the planet?
Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
by Sian Sullivan Can new cryptocurrencies finance projects with positive environmental impacts, whilst unlocking ‘the $120…
Nature is being renamed ‘natural capital’ – but is it really the planet that will profit?
China’s Jiangxi mountains: now just an asset? Shutterstock Sian Sullivan, Bath Spa University The four-yearly World Conservation Congress of the…
Three of Namibia’s most famous lion family were poisoned – why?
The ‘Musketeers’ pictured here were stars of a recent National Geographic documentary. Sian Sullivan, Author provided Sian Sullivan, Bath Spa…
On the spirit(s) of oil
In the last few days, I have met Manari Ushigua of the Sápara people (‘Zapara’) of Pastaza Province in the…
Reflections on Clyde Reflections: a film installation by film-maker Stephen Hurrel and social ecologist Ruth Brennan
One evening in May 2015 I started to read Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes (2003(1995)) by Peter Lamborn…
On ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ in the proposed Nature and Well-being Act (The Wildlife Trusts and RSPB)
This post responds to an invitation to add my views to a comments thread regarding the recently published ‘Green Paper’…
At the Edinburgh Forums on Natural Capital and Natural Commons: From disavowal to plutonomy, via ‘natural capital’
In Edinburgh over the next two days the inaugural World Forum on Natural Capital claims that ‘a revolution is taking…
revisiting ‘Isolation Came’ dance piece 1993
Isolation Came Choreographed by Katy Wilson to ‘Stomache Music’ by Colin Murrell (apologies for poor sound quality – sound was…
Plenary Panel with Pavan Sukhdev at the Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity
Back in Norway again! This time as part of a ‘high-level’ Plenary Panel on ‘Trade-offs in National Policies’ at the…
The aurora affect
It’s official. We live in a magical universe. I have always known this, somewhere. In my heart, in my belly,…
Chess or Go?
It’s November and I am in Oslo for the Norwegian Association for Development Research conference Development for a Finite Planet:…
After the green rush? Biodiversity offsets, uranium power and the ‘calculus of casualties’ in greening growth
Download full paper Abstract Biodiversity offsets are part of a new suite of biodiversity conservation instruments designed to mitigate the…
Green: Going Beyond ‘the Money Shot’
Green Green is a 2009 film depicting deforestation of Indonesian tropical forest to make way for industrial palm oil plantations,…
The making of a one-handed economist
Read my Dad’s book, The Making of a One-handed Economist! It’s available here. I am of course biased. Nevertheless I…
A techno-recipe for making nature the friend of capital
2011 marks the 200 year anniversary of the Luddite rebellion in the UK. The Luddite’s were workers whose livelihoods, cottage industries…
To celebrate Earth Day 2011
To mark Earth Day on 22nd April I was invited to reprint a short article on the theme of ‘Bioculturalism…
The business of bio(cultural) diversity?
On 8 July, an opinion piece was published in the journal Nature under the title ‘The Business of Biodiversity‘. In…
The environmentality of ‘Earth Incorporated’
The environmentality of ‘Earth Incorporated’: on contemporary primitive accumulation and the financialisation of environmental conservation Paper presented at the conference…
Current Conservation 3(3) special issue: Neoliberal biodiversity conservation & displacement
Special journal issue bringing together cases and critique regarding the impacts of neoliberal biodiversity conservation on local peoples and alternative…
A new ‘Imperial Ecology’?
‘Ecosystem service commodities’ – a new imperial ecology? Implications for animist immanent ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari In New Formations:…
On constructing nature as ‘service-provider’
Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service-provider in Radical Anthropology 3 (2009), pp. 18-27. ‘People differ…
On non-equilibrium and nomadism
On non-equilibrium and nomadism: knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands (and beyond …) forthcoming in Pimbert, M. (ed.) Reclaiming…
Displaced and disobedient knowledge
Problematizing neoliberal biodiversity conservation: displaced and disobedient knowledges Co-authored with Jim Igoe, this is a report of a workshop with…
An ecosystem at your service?
An ecosystem at your service? in The Land, Winter 2008/9: 21-23. Online here. Download full article here (.pdf)
For the G20 Alternative Summit, London 2009
Notes on the poverty of constructing nature as service-provider Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this…
On bioculturalism, shamanism and unlearning the creed of growth
This piece started life as a talk at the a symposium on ‘Sustaining Biological and Cultural Diversity’ at the American…
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