Prof. Sian Sullivan

Suro Ganuses and I have worked together since 1994. Suro is Indigenous Damara/ǂNūkhoen. I have learned loads from her, and through our wider collaborations.

Here we are 🙂

Our co-authored article is called:

"How conservation may make cultural heritage invisible:
Intersecting on-site oral histories with land claims for settler #colonialism, #conservation and #tourism in north-west #Namibia"

Abstract shared below ⬇️

See nje.org.na/index.php/n...

🌍 New co-authored article in the Namibian Journal of Environment - special issue on #Conservation and #Land (more below!)

Cover by Clarance Geingob, who has completed multiple illustrations for research we're doing on one of the first anti-colonial Uprisings in north-west #Namibia (1897-1898)

Thank you! You're definitely referred to in the article 😍

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?

Both Ruben & Jeff also have chapters in our Big Book "Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast" - now with over 2,700 downloads 🙂

See Chapter 5 and Chapter 8...
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11...

Highlights & Abstract here ⬇️

Led by Ruben Schneider, with Jeff Muntifering of @SRTNamibia & me of
@BathSpaUni & @GobabebRSH as co-authors.

Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…

🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation!

'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

Congratulations 🎉 those cakes look divine 😍

Released as a single in 2024, the video – drawing on footage from our filmwork with Oliver Halsey, and edited by Patrick Dunn – can be watched here: vimeo.com/992682994 🐝

We've drawn on this research to recompose a praise song (|gais) about #bees through collaboration with musician Toby Marks aka @bancodegaia.

banco.co.uk/album/a-bee...

The article draws on archive research at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland in 2017.

Suro, pictured below, began to sing along as she listened to the recordings – demonstrating how archived recordings from the 1950s linger on in people’s memories and experiences.

The image above is of the late Nathan ǂÛina Taurob. In 1995, he showed us how he collected honey from a hive he'd harvested from for around 20 years, north-west of Sesfontein/!Nani-|aus, Namibia.

These practices have pretty much died out now, as people have lost access to land.

"The Power of Praising #Bees 🐝"

– new article in 'Doek! A Literary Magazine From Namibia' @doeklitmag, written with my longstanding Namibian research collaborator, Welhemina Suro Ganuses of @SRTNamibia 🦏

doeklitmag.com/the-power-o...

#openaccess version now available 🙂
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologist...

#openaccess version now available 🙂
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The article is available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication...

Towards the end of the Essay we make some suggestions for moving forwards with this situation ⬇️

17 of us pulled together to write this Essay, under the leadership of Stasja Koot. We've all experienced abuse & harassment – mostly for writing perspectives on #conservation that are unwelcome, even if evidenced in various ways.

#disobedientknowledge

Pretty excited that this co-authored Essay in @ConBiology is out:
"Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science #conservation research"

It should be #openaccess, but currently isn't for some reason. It can be read on ResearchGate though: link shared below.

Article can be read on ResearchGate at www.researchgate.net/publication...

Published in a Special Issue called "New Materialist Tangles In and For the #Anthropocene", all authors were invited to engage with work by political ecologists and theorists Jane Bennett and William E Connolly.
#politicalecology

☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻New article in the J. of #HumanRights & the #Environment, engaging with

☢️ heightened nuclear threats in context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

⛽ frictions between fossil-fuel & nuclear economies

🇳🇦 & contexts of #genocide, building on historical research in #Namibia

Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215

I'm also looking forward to discussing your work with you today!

We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social

‘A dark masterpiece’: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish at 50 One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our age of digital surveillance.

A great article on Michel Foucault masterwork on discipline and power from 1975.

Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!

Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚

Investigative report on the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project in Tanzania: “This is a new form of colonialism” "Very few Hadzabe understand the carbon project.”

🌳 In 2011, the Ugamaa Community Resource Team helped the Hadzabe to secure land rights for part of their territory.

🔥 With support from The Nature Conservancy.

💲 In 2012, Carbon Tanzania set up a REDD project on the Hadzabe's land.

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/investigat...

Greenwashing and Social Justice: Pro-Trophy Hunting Narratives Need Careful Examination • The Revelator Arguments abound on the benefits and dangers of trophy hunting. We need a careful, measured approach to analyzing how it’s justified and promoted.

⬇️A quite subtle piece on #trophyhunting & #socialjustice

"If community benefits are minimal, #trophyhunting is perceived as a #colonial pursuit, and genuine grassroots participation in decision-making is lacking, is the [social justice] argument valid?"

therevelator.org/greenwashing...