Green Green is a 2009 film depicting deforestation of Indonesian tropical forest to make way for industrial palm oil plantations, … More
Category: publications
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
A new ‘Imperial Ecology’?
‘Ecosystem service commodities’ – a new imperial ecology? Implications for animist immanent ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari In New Formations: … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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)
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 … More
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
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
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)
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