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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

Animism, arid and semi-arid, ≠Nū Khoen, bioculturalism, capitalism, conservation, Damara, ecosystem services, immanent ecologies, KhoeSān, Namibia, neoliberalism, Shamanism

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

'earth incorporated', bioculturalism, biodiversity, biodiversity derivatives, capitalism, sustainability

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

bioculturalism, biodiversity, capitalism, conservation, Conservation International, neoliberalism, sustainability

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

≠Nū Khoen, bioculturalism, biodiversity, capitalism, carbon markets, conservation, Damara, displacement, ecosystem services, enclosure, finance, KhoeSān, Namibia, neoliberalism, Purros, sentience, Shamanism, spectacle, UN Convention on Biodiversity

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