The elephant in the room?

The elephant in the room? Problematizing ‘new’ (neoliberal) biodiversity conservation Published in Forum for Development Studies 33(1) (2006), pp. 105-135. … More

Conceptualising glocal organisation

Conceptualising glocal organisation: from rhizomes to E=mc2 in becoming post-human pp. 149-166 in Kornprobst, M., Pouliot, V., Shah, N. and … More

An ‘Other’ World is Possible?

An Other World is Possible? On Representation, Rationalism and Romanticism in Social Forums pp. 370-392, in ephemera: theory and politics … More

Food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia

Detail and dogma, data and discourse: food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia pp. 63-99 in Homewood, … More

Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management, eastern and southern Africa

Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management pp. 118-166 in Bowyer-Bower, T. and Potts, D. (eds.) (2004) Eastern and Southern … More

Dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia

Protest, conflict and litigation: dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia pp. 69-86 in Berglund, E. … More

On non-equilibrium in arid and semi-arid grazing systems

On non-equilibrium in arid and semi-arid grazing systems published in Journal of Biogeography 29(12) (2002): 1595-1618. (with Rick Rohde). Download … More

How sustainable is the communalising discourse of ‘new’ conservation?

How sustainable is the communalising discourse of ‘new’ conservation? The masking of difference, inequality and aspiration in the fledgling ‘conservancies’ … More

‘How can the rain fall in this chaos?’

‘How can the rain fall in this chaos?’ Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape pp. 255-265, … More

On dance and difference

On dance and difference: bodies, movement and experience in Khoesān trance-dancing – perceptions of ‘a raver’ pp. 234-241 in Haviland, … More

Gender, ethnographic myths and community-based conservation

Gender, ethnographic myths and community-based conservation in a former Namibian ‘homeland’ pp. 142-164 in Hodgson, D. (ed.) (2000 ) Rethinking … More

Local ‘facts’, global discourse – ‘desertification’ in north-west Namibia

Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? Local ‘facts’, global discourse – ‘desertification’ in north-west Namibia … More

Folk and formal, local and national

Folk and formal, local and national: Damara cultural knowledge and community-based conservation in southern Kunene, Namibia Paper published in Cimbebasia … More

The impacts of people and livestock…

The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood- and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia Global Ecology and … More

Towards a non-equilibrium ecology

Towards a non-equilibrium ecology: perspectives from an arid land Journal of Biogeography 23 (1996 ): 1-5. Download article (.pdf)