Publications and other papers (Sullivan, S.), in reverse chronological order
In press.
2022
Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2022 !Nara harvesters of the Northern Namib: a cultural history through three photographed encounters.
Journal of the Namibian Scientific Society 69: 115-139,Special Issue “Gobabeb@60”, edited by Scott Turner.
Sullivan, S. Maps and memory, rights and relationships: articulations of global modernity and local dwelling in delineating land for a communal-area conservancy in north-west Namibia | Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations: articulations de la modernité globale et des dynamiques locales dans la délimitation territoriale des aires de conservation communales au Nord-Ouest de la Namibie (trans. B. Bacle). Conserveries Mémorielles: Revue Transdisciplinaire 25 Special Issue ‘Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts | Histoires Perturbées, Passés Retrouvés’, edited by Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I. [earlier version published 2019 as Future Pasts Working Papers 7]
Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I. 2022 Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts”: a cross-disciplinary analysis and cross-case synthesis of oral histories and history in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts | « Histoires perturbees, passes retrouves » : une introduction. Une analyse interdisciplinaire et une synthese croisee d’histoires orales et de l’histoire dans des contextes postconflits et post-coloniaux (trans. B. Bacle), Conserveries Mémorielles: Revue Transdisciplinaire 25 Special Issue ‘Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts | Histoires Perturbées, Passés Retrouvés’, edited by Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I.
Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I. 2022 Cross-case synthesis: faire ensemble / doing together | Synthèse croisée: faire ensemble / doing together (trans. B. Bacle) Conserveries Mémorielles: Revue Transdisciplinaire 25 Special Issue ‘Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts | Histoires Perturbées, Passés Retrouvés’, edited by Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I.
Koot., S., Hebinck, P. and Sullivan, S. 2022 Conservation research and discursive violence: a response to two rejoinders. Society and Natural Resources.
2021
Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2021 Recomposing the archive? On sound and (hi)story in Damara / ǂNūkhoe pasts, from Basel to west Namibia. Oral History 49(2): 95-108, Special Issue on ‘Power and the archive’.
Sullivan, S., Ganuses, W.S., Olivier, E. and ǁHawaxab, F. 2021 Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, memories, possibilities. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 10 ISBN 978-1-911126-20-1.
Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2021 Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing, in Dieckmann, U. (ed.) Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Hewitson, L. and Sullivan, S. 2021 Producing elephant commodities for ‘conservation hunting’ in Namibian communal-area conservancies. Journal of Political Ecology 28: 1-24. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2279
2020
Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2020 Understanding Damara / ≠Nūkhoen and ǁUbun indigeneity and marginalisation in Namibia, pp. 283-324 in Odendaal, W. and Werner, W. (eds.) ‘Neither Here Nor There’: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-independence Namibia. Windhoek: Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre. ISBN 978-99945-61-58-2
!Uriǂkhob, S. 2020 Attitudes and perceptions of local communities towards the reintroduction of black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis) into their historical range in northwest Kunene Region, Namibia: a Masters Dissertation from 2004. With a Foreword by Sian Sullivan and Jeff Muntifering, ‘Historicising black rhino in west Namibia’. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 8 https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp8-urikhob-sullivan-muntife-2020 ISBN: 978-1-911126-11-9
Lendelvo, S., Mechtilde, P. & Sullivan, S. 2020 A Perfect Storm? COVID-19 and community-based conservation in Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment 4(B): 1-15.
Also summarised in a blog on the Conservation Namibia website.
Koot, S., Hebinck, P. & Sullivan, S. 2020 Science for success – a conflict of interest? Researcher position and reflexivity in socio-ecological research for CBNRM in Namibia. Society and Natural Resources https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1762953
2019
Sullivan, S. 2019 Towards a metaphysics of the soul and a participatory aesthetics of life: mobilising Foucault, affect and animism for caring practices of existence. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory & Politics 95(3): 5-21.
Dunlap, A. and Sullivan, S. 2019 A faultline in neoliberal environmental governance scholarship? Or, why accumulation-by-alienation matters Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2514848619874691
Sullivan, S. 2019 Reading ‘Earth Incorporated’ through Caliban and the Witch, pp. 119-134 in Barbagallo, C., Beuret, N. and Harvie, D. (eds.) Commoning with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis. London: Pluto Press.
Sullivan, S., Ganuses, WS., Hannis, M., Impey, A., Low, C. and Rohde, R. 2019 Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia. 2nd edn. Bath: Future Pasts. ISBN 978-1-911126-14-0
Sullivan, S. 2019 Maps and memory, rights and relationships: articulations of global modernity and local dwelling in delineating land for a communal-area conservancy in north-west Namibia. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 7.
Neimark, B., Childs, J., Nightingale, A., Cavanagh, C., Sullivan, S., Benjaminsen, T.A., Batterbury, S., Koot, S. and Harcourt, W. 2019 Speaking Power to ‘Post Truth’: critical political ecology and the new authoritarianism. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109(2): 613-623. DOI:10.1080/24694452.2018.1547567
Neimark, B., Childs, J., Nightingale, A.J., Cavanagh, C.J., Sullivan, S., Benjaminsen, T.A., Batterbury, S., Koot, S. and Harcourt, W. 2019 Speaking power to “post-truth”: critical political ecology and the new authoritarianism, ch. 27 in McCarthy, J. Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era. London: Routledge.
2018
Sullivan, S. 2018 Making nature investable: from legibility to leverageability in fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’. Science and Technology Studies 31(3): 47-76.
Sullivan, S. 2018 Bonding nature(s)? Funds, financiers and values at the impact investing edge in environmental conservation, in Bracking, S., Fredriksen, A., Sullivan, S. and Woodhouse, P. (eds.) Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter. London: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies.
Carver, L. and Sullivan, S. 2018 Creating ‘good biodiversity yield per hectare’? Calculating conservation yields in the English Biodiversity Offsetting Pilot, pp. 122-144 in Bracking, S., Fredriksen, A., Sullivan, S. and Woodhouse, P. (eds.) Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter. London: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies.
Bracking, S. Fredriksen, A., Sullivan, S. and Woodhouse, P. 2018 ‘Introducing values that matter’ pp. 1-17, ‘Value(s) and valuation in development, conservation and environment’ pp. 18-41 and ‘Conclusion: the limits of economic valuation’ pp. 225- in Bracking, S., Fredriksen, A., Sullivan, S. and Woodhouse, P. (eds.) Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter. London: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies.
Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. 2018 Relationality, reciprocity, flourishing in an African landscape, pp. 279-296 in Hartman, L.M. (ed.) That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sullivan, S. 2018 Dissonant sustainabilities? Politicising and psychologising antagonisms in the conservation-development nexus. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 5.
Sullivan, S. 2018 Nature 3.0: will blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies save the planet? Entitle Blog.
Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. 2018 Mining the desert. The Land 22: 46–49.
Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. 2018 Extraction old and new: mining the desert in southwestern Africa. Future Pasts Blog.
Sullivan, S. 2018 On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world. Invited commentary on Tsing, A.L. 2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Dialogues in Human Geography 8(1): 69-72.
Sullivan, S. and Homewood, K. 2018 On non-equilibrium and nomadism: knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands, pp. 115–168 in Pimbert, M. (ed.) Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Knowledge: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge. London: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
2017
Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I. 2017 Disrupted histories, recovered pasts: a cross-disciplinary analysis and cross-case synthesis of oral histories and history in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts. Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts Working Paper 1 ISBN: 978-1-911126-06-5.
Sullivan, S. 2017 The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures. Invited commentary on Kay, K. and Kenney-Lazar, M. 2017 Value in capitalist nature: an emerging framework. Dialogues in Human Geography 7(3) 310–313.
Sullivan, S. and Hannis, M. 2017 ‘Mathematics maybe, but not money‘: on balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 30(7): 1459-1480, special issue on ‘Ecological accounts: making non-human worlds (in)visible during moments of socio-ecological transformation’, edited by Markus J. Milne, Shona L. Russell and Colin Dey.
Sullivan, S. 2017 Noting some effects of fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’. The Ecological Citizen 1(1): 65-73.
Carver, L. and Sullivan, S. 2017 How economic contexts shape calculations of yield in biodiversity offsetting. Conservation Biology 31(5): 1053–1065.
Sullivan, S. 2017 Natural capital, fairytales and ideology. Invited Review Essay, Development and Change 48(2): 397-423.
Sullivan, S. 2017 What’s ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of ‘the green economy’. Journal of Political Ecology 24: 217-242, Special section entitled ‘Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities’, edited by Cavanagh, C.J. and Benjaminsen, T.A.
2016
Sullivan, S. 2016 Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? Locating Green at Wildscreen. Journal of Environmental Communications 10(6): 749-762, Special issue entitled ‘Spectacular Environmentalisms/Environments’.
Sullivan, S. 2016 Nature is being renamed ‘natural capital’ – but is it really the planet that will profit? The Conversation 13 September 2016
Sullivan, S. 2016 Three of Namibia’s most famous lion family were poisoned – why? The Conversation 23 August 2016
Sullivan, S. 2016 What’s ontology got to do with it? Nature, knowledge and ‘the green economy’. Future Pasts Working Papers 3.
Sullivan, S. and Hannis, M. 2016 Relationality, reciprocity and flourishing in an African landscape: perspectives on agency amongst ||Khao-a Dama, !Narenin and ||Ubun elders in west Namibia. Future Pasts Working Papers 2.
Sullivan, S. Hannis, M., Impey, A., Low, C. and Rohde, R.F. 2016 Future pasts? Sustainabilities in west Namibia – a conceptual framework for research. Future Pasts Working Papers 1.
Sullivan, S. 2016 (Re)embodying which body? Philosophical, cross-cultural and personal reflections on corporeality, pp. 119-138 in Thomas-Pellicer, R., de Lucia, V. and Sullivan, S. (eds.) Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments. London: GlassHouse Books, Routledge Law, Justice and Ecology Series.
Thomas-Pellicer, R., de Lucia, V. and Sullivan, S. (eds.) 2016 Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Imagining Re-Embodiments. London: GlassHouse Books, Routledge Law, Justice and Ecology Series.
Sullivan, S. 2016 What’s ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology, pp. 155-169 in Kopnina, H. and Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. London: Routledge.
2015
Sullivan, S. and Hannis, M. 2015 Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England. Ecosystem Services 15: 162-173, special issue on ‘Biodiversity Offsets as MBIs? From discourses to practice’, edited by Froger, G., Hrabanski, M. and Boisvert, V.
Mueller, T. and Sullivan, S. 2015 Making other worlds possible? Riots, movement and counterglobalisation, pp. 239-255 in Davies, M. (ed.) Disturbing the Peace: Collective Action in Britain & France, 1381 to the Present. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sullivan, S. 2015 On ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ in the proposed Nature and Well-being Act (The Wildlife Trusts and RSPB). 16 January 2015 LCSV blog.
2014
Sullivan, S. and Low, C. 2014 Shades of the rainbow serpent? A KhoeSān animal between myth and landscape in southern Africa – ethnographic contextualisations of rock art representations. The Arts 3(2): 215-244, special issue on World Rock Art,
Sullivan, S. 2014 Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an animate nature. In Büscher, B., Dressler, W. and Fletcher, R. (eds.) Nature™ Inc: New Frontiers of Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age. University of Arizona Press.
Sullivan, S. and Hannis, M. 2014 Nets and frames, losses and gains: Value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England. LCSV Working Paper 5.
Sullivan, S. 2014 The natural capital myth; or will accounting save the world? Preliminary thoughts on nature, finance and values. LCSV Working Paper 3.
Fredriksen, A. Bracking, S., Greco, E., Igoe, J.J., Morgan, R. and Sullivan, S. 2014 A conceptual map for the study of value: An initial mapping of concepts for the project ‘Human, non-human and environmental value systems: an impossible frontier?’ LCSV Working Paper 2.
Bracking, S., Brockington, D., Bond, P., Büscher, B., Igoe, J.J., Sullivan, S., and Woodhouse, P. 2014 Initial research design: ‘Human, non-human and environmental value systems: an impossible frontier?’ LCSV Working Paper 1.
2013
Sullivan, S. 2013 After the green rush? Biodiversity offsets, uranium power and the ‘calculus of casualties’ in greening growth. Human Geography. 6(1): 80-101.
Martin. A., McGuire, S. and Sullivan, S. 2013 Global environmental justice and biodiversity conservation. The Geographical Journal 179(2): 122-131.
Sullivan, S. 2013 Banking nature? The spectacular financialisation of environmental conservation. Antipode 45(1): 198-217. [This is the final iteration of a conference paper entitled The environmentality of ‘Earth Incorporated’: on contemporary primitive accumulation and the financialisation of environmental conservation’, presented at the conference A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism, Lund University, Sweden, May 2010. In March 2011 it also constituted the basis for an open online seminar run by the Open Anthropology Cooperative, which can be viewed here.]
Most cited paper & author for Antipode in 2013.
Translated and reprinted in German [as ‘Banking Nature? Die spektakuläre Finanzialisierung des Umweltschutzes’] in Biokapital: Beiträge zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie des Lebens [Biocapital: Contributions to Critique of the Political Economy of Life] edited by Josef Barla, Vicky Kluzik, Thomas Lemke, Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 515-545.
Sullivan, S. 2013 Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an animate nature. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Enquiry. Third part of a triptych of papers on the theme of ‘Nature on the Move’, with the first authored by political scientist Bram Büscher, the second authored by anthropologist Jim Igoe. Our introduction to the triptych is here.
Sullivan, S. 2013 Should nature have to prove its value? Green Economy Coalition blog post.
Sullivan, S. 2013 The natural capital myth. Public Political Ecology Lab blog on carbon offsets and REDD+, March 2013.
2012
Sullivan, S. 2012 Financialisation, Biodiversity Conservation and Equity: Some Currents and Concerns. Environment and Development Series 16, Penang Malaysia: Third World Network. ISBN 978-967-5412-69-1
Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. 2012 Offsetting Nature? Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System. Dorset: Green House. ISBN 978-0-9569545-7-2
Büscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Brockington, D. and Igoe, J. 2012 Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal conservation. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 23(2): 4-30.
Sullivan, S. 2012 On dance and difference: bodies, movement and experience in Khoesān trance-dancing – perceptions of a ‘raver’. In, Anthropology in a Changing World. McGraw-Hill, New York. Reprinted fromDanza e diversità: copri, movimento ed esperienza nella trance-dance dei Khoisan e nei rave occidentali. Africa e Mediterraneo Cultura e Societa 37: 15-22., also in 2006, pp. 234-241 in Haviland, W.A., Gordon R., and Vivanco, L. (eds.) Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, 4th Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Green: an activist film. In Blewitt, J. The media, animal conservation and environmental education. London: Routledge.
2011
Pawliczek, J. and Sullivan, S. 2011 Conservation and concealment in SpeciesBanking.com, USA: an analysis of neoliberal performance in the species offsetting industry. Environmental Conservation 38(4):435-444 Themed Issue on Payments for Ecosystem Services.
Sullivan, S., Spicer, A. and Böhm, S. 2011 Becoming global (un)civil society: struggles in the global Indymedia network, Globalizations 8(4) (with ). Earlier version available here as LSE Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA) Research Paper Series 42 (2009).
Sullivan, S. 2011 Conservation is sexy! What makes this so, and what does this make? An engagement with Celebrity and the Environment. Conservation and Society 9(4):334-345.
Frenzel, F., Böhm, S., Quinton, P., Spicer, A., Sullivan, S. and Young, Z. 2011 Alternative media in North and South – a comparison: the cases of IFIWatchnet and Indymedia in Africa. Environment and Planning A43: 1173-1189.
Sullivan, S. 2011 Supposing truth is a woman? A commentary. International Journal of Feminist Politics13(2): 231-237.
Sullivan, S. 2011 A technological recipe for making nature the friend of capital. The Land Summer: 44-46.
Sullivan, S. 2011 On bioculturalism, shamanism & unlearning the creed of growth. Geography and You March-April: 15-19. Reprinted from Bioculturalism, shamanism & economics, Resurgence 250 (2008), online.
Sullivan, S. 2011 Green: going beyond ‘the money shot’, online at Studying Green.
2010
Sullivan, S. 2010 ‘Ecosystem service commodities’ – a new imperial ecology? Implications for animist immanent ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari, New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 69:111-128, Special issue entitled Imperial Ecologies
Problematizing neoliberal biodiversity conservation: displaced and disobedient knowledge, Current Conservation 3(3): 4-7 (With Igoe, J. and Brockington, D.).
Ecosystem service commodities, Geography and You.
Alternative view of Serengeti road, Letter to Nature 467: 788-789 (with Homewood, K. and Brockington, D.).
2009
Sullivan, S. 2009 Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service-provider. Radical Anthropology 3:18-27.
An ecosystem at your service? The Land, Winter 2008/9: 21-23.
Problematizing Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation: Displaced and Disobedient Knowledges, London, IIED (with J. Igoe).
Frenzel, F. and Sullivan, S. 2009 Globalisation from below? ICTs and democratic development in the project ‘Indymedia Africa’, pp. 165-182 in Mudhai, F. (ed.) African Media and the Digital Public Sphere, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Review of DDS Community Media Trust, P.V. Satheesh and Michel Pimbert (2008)‘Affirming life and diversity. Rural images and voices on food sovereignty in south India’, IIED, London. PLA notes, IIED, London (with Z. Young).
2008
Sullivan, S. ‘Viva nihilism!’ On militancy and machismo in (anti-)globalisation protest, in Devetak, R. and Hughes, C. (eds.) Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization’s Shadow, Warwick Studies in Globalisation, Routledge, London. This is an edited version of a working paper published in 2005 here.
Salter, K. and Sullivan, S. 2008 ‘Shell to Sea’ in Ireland: building social movement potency, Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA) Working Paper Series 5.
Sullivan, S. 2008 Conceptualising glocal earth: from rhizome to E=mc2 in becoming post-human, pp. 149-166 in Kornprobst, M., Pouliot, V., Shah, N. and Zaiotti, R. (eds.) Metaphors of Globalisation: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
2007
Blogs, in Robertson, R. and Scholte, J.A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of globalization, Routledge, London.
‘Indymedia’, in Anderson, G. and Herr, K. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, London: Sage Publications (co-written as part of five member alt.media.res collective).
Review of Goodridge, J. 1999 ‘Rhythm and timing of movement in performance: drama, dance and ceremony’, Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd, London. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute13(3): 748-9.
2006
The elephant in the room? Problematizing ‘new’ (neoliberal) biodiversity conservation, Forum for Development Studies 33(1):105-135.
2005
An other world is possible? On representation, rationalism and romanticism in Social Forums, Special Issue ephemera: theory and practice in organization 5(2): 370-392.
Sensing the Forum: a collage, Special Issue ephemera: theory and practice in organization, 5(2) (with Böhm, S.).
The organisation and politics of Social Forums, Special Issue ephemera: theory and practice in organization, 5(2), pp. 98-442. (guest edited with Böhm, S., and Reyes, O.).
‘We are heartbroken and furious!’ Rethinking violence and the (anti-)globalisation movements’, pp. 175-194 in Maiguashca, B. and Eschle, C. (eds.) Critical Theories, World Politics and ‘the Anti-globalisation Movement’, London, Routledge. Based on a working paper published in 2004 here.
Detail and dogma, data and discourse: food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia, pp. 63-99 in Homewood, K. (ed.) Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. James Currey and University of Wisconsin Press, Oxford.
Riflessioni sulla ‘nuova’ (neoliberista) protezione ambientale (con casi pratici dalla Namibia), (Reflections on ‘new’ (neoliberal) conservation (with case material from Namibia, southern Africa), Africa e Orienti 2: 102-115.
2004
Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management,pp. 118-166 in Bowyer-Bower, T. and Potts, D. (eds.) Eastern and Southern Africa, new regional text commission by the Institute of British Geographers’ Developing Areas Research Group, London, Addison Wesley Longman. (with Homewood, K.).
Namibia, in Skutsch, Karl (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities, London, Routledge.
Damara, in Skutsch, Karl (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities, London, Routledge.
Barcelona 22-25 January 2004: First International Conference on ‘Social Movements and Activist Research’. CSGR Newsletter 11: 12-15
2003
On non-equilibrium and nomadism: knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands (and beyond …). Updated version of CSGR Working Paper 122/03. (with Homewood, K.).
Protest, conflict and litigation: dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia, pp. 69-86 in Berglund, E. and Anderson, D. (eds.) Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege. Oxford, Berghahn Press.
Qualitative research, pp. 57-74 in Scheyvens, R. and Storey, D. (eds.) Fieldwork and Development Studies: a Rough Guide. London, Sage Publications. (with Brockington, D.). Reworked as a working paper published in 2004 entitled ‘Qualitative methods in globalisation studies: or, saying something about the world without counting or inventing it’.
Frontline(s). ephemera: critical dialogues on organization 3(1): 68-89.
Review of Anderson, D. and Broch-Due, V. (eds.) 1999 ‘The Poor are not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa’, James Currey, East African Educational Publishing and Ohio University Press, Oxford, Nairobi and Athens. The Journal of Modern African Studies.41(4).
‘Anger is a gift!’ Or is it? Engaging with violence in the (anti-)globalisation movement(s). CSGR Newsletter10: 11-14.
Radical Theory Workshop @ the 2nd European Social Forum: Some Notes. CSGR Discussion Paper.
2002
On non-equilibrium in arid and semi-arid grazing systems. Journal of Biogeography 29(12): 1595-1618. (with Rohde, R.).
How sustainable is the communalising discourse of ‘new’ conservation? The masking of difference, inequality and aspiration in the fledgling ‘conservancies’ of Namibia, pp. 158-187 In Chatty, D. and Colchester, M. (eds.) Conservation and Mobile Indigenous people: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development. Oxford, Berghahn Press.
‘How can the rain fall in this chaos?’ Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape, pp. 255-265, 315-317 in LeBeau, D. and Gordon, R.J. (eds.) Challenges for Anthropology in the ‘African Renaissance’: A Southern African Contribution, University of Namibia Press, Publication Number 1.
Inventory and review of ethnobotanical research in Namibia: first steps towards a central ‘register’ of published indigenous plant knowledge. NBRI Contributions 3. National Botanical Research Institute, Windhoek. (With Craven, P.).
2001
Difference, identity and access to official discourses: Hai||om, ‘Bushmen’, and a recent Namibian ethnography. Anthropos 96: 179-192.
Review of Mistry, J. 2000 ‘World savannas: ecology and human use’. Prentice Hall, London. Progress in Physical Geography, 25(2): 299-300.
Review of Kinahan, Jill. 2000 ‘Cattle for beads: the archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib coast’. Dept. of Archaeology & Ancient History and Namibia Archaeological Trust, University of Uppsala and Windhoek. Cimbebasia 17: 258-260.
Invited letter. In Martin, G. (ed.) ‘Managing Resources’, People and Plants Handbook.6: 6-7, WWF/UNESCO/Kew Gardens.
2000
Gender, ethnographic myths and community-based conservation in a former Namibian ‘homeland’, pp. 142-164 in Hodgson, D. (ed.) Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist. Oxford, James Currey.
Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? Local ‘facts’, global discourse – ‘desertification’ in north-west Namibia, pp. 15-44 in Stott, P. and Sullivan, S. (eds.) Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power. London, Edward Arnold.
Introduction, pp. 1-11 in Stott, P. and Sullivan, S. (eds.) (2000) Political ecology: Science, Myth and Power. London, Edward Arnold. (with Stott, P.). Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power. London, Edward Arnold. (edited with Stott, P).
Gambling with risk. Review of Mortimore, M. 1998 ‘Roots in the African Dust: sustaining the drylands’ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6(4): 751-752.
1999
The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography (Special Issue on Degradation of Open Woodlands) 8: 257-277.
Folk and formal, local and national: Damara cultural knowledge and community-based conservation in southern Kunene, Namibia. Cimbebasia 15: 1-28.
Rural planning in Namibia: state-led initiatives and some rural realities. Appendix 3 inDalal-Clayton, B. DfID-funded IIED overview of rural planning, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
1997
Human impacts on woody vegetation, and multivariate analysis: a case study based on data from Khowarib settlement, Kunene Region. Dinteria 25: 87-120. (with Konstant, T.L.).
1996
Sullivan, S. 1996 Towards a non-equilibrium ecology: perspectives from an arid land. Journal of Biogeography 23: 1-5.
Sullivan, S. 1996 The ‘Communalization’ of Former Commercial Farmland: perspectives from Damaraland and implications for land reform. Windhoek: Social Sciences Division of the Multidisciplinary Research Centre, University of Namibia, Research Report 25.
ISBN 0947433589.
People and plants on communal land in Namibia: the relevance of indigenous range and forest management practices, and land tenure systems, to in situ plant genetic resources conservation in the arid and semi-arid regions of Namibia. Consultancy report, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute and the National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia.
1995
The impact of the utilization of palm products on the population structure of the Vegetable Ivory Palm (Hyphaene petersiana, Arecaceae) in north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49(4): 357-370. (with Konstant, T.L. and Cunningham, A.B.).
The effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the palm savanna of north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49(4): 345-356. (with Konstant, T.L. and Cunningham, A.B.).
1994
Savanna details with a paradigm shift. Review of An African savanna. Scholes, R.J. and Walker, B.H. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Journal of Biogeography, 4(12): 448.
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