On 8 July, an opinion piece was published in the journal Nature under the title ‘The Business of Biodiversity‘. In … More
Tag: sustainability
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 … 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
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
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
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
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)