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Prof. Sian Sullivan

@siansullivan.bsky.social
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Prof. of Environment & Culture, BSU | Research Associate Gobabeb Namib Research Institute | #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalAnthropology #ConservationPolitics the-natural-capital-myth.net www.etosha-kunene-histories.net www.futurepasts.net

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🌍 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)
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🦏 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...
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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…
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"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...
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The Power Of Praising Bees
“Acoustic Pasts, Echoed Futures: Auralgraph from !Huidi-ǁgams, Omaruru, 1954.” — by Welhemina Suro Ganuses & Sian Sullivan • Curated by Basler Afrika Bibliographien Archives.
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#openaccess version now available 🙂 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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...
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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.
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻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
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Sanna KO:MI @sannakomi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215
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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Journal of Political Ecology
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A great article on Michel Foucault masterwork on discipline and power from 1975.
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‘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.
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🌳 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...
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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.”
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
⬇️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...
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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.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We've published another new article 'online first' in 'Global Environment'; Martin Kalb on 'Mules, Global Networks, and Settler Colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915': doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #africa #colonialism @globalenvironment.bsky.social
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Chris Sand @chrissand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#Namibia 'n conservancies fight to block mining threat to #Rhinos Two Namibian community conservancies and a tourism operator have turned to the courts to block development of a tin mine.. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/nami...
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Namibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos
When a copper mine started operating in Namibia’s //Huab Conservancy in 2021, blasting of rock and heavy machinery disturbed the area’s critically endangered southern black rhinos, and they moved out ...
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
☀️New film! made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) & Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects. Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia vimeo.com/1035751265
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ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture
Made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects, this film documents "ǂNūkhoe Xûn",…
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
An article I didn't want to write: 'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)' J. of Political Ecology ⬇️ journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
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On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexit...
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#SonicHeritage
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Remembering #ClaremontRoad, #Leyton ... the era of the Criminal Justice Act, targeting illegal raves, squatters and Travellers... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How the battle of Claremont Road changed the world: ‘The whole of alternative London turned up’
Thirty years ago, more than 500 activists united to save a street – and their actions marked a major turning-point in the environmental movement
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Pro Wildlife @prowildlife.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
📢 #Botswana journalist uncovers who really benefits from #TrophyHunting (spoiler alert: not the local communities) & how plagued the industry is by #corruption, mismanagement & conflicts of interest‼️ 👉 guardiansun.co.bw/news/middlem... @siansullivan.bsky.social @mongabay.bsky.social
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Middlemen not communities, benefit from trophy hunting
BG Correspondent - Why do politicians inflate the value of recreational hunting and community benefits when the economic evidence in favour of trophy hunting is thin, JOEL KONOPO asks.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). “I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."
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Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation’ after travelling length of Gaza
James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
🦁 #Hunting for #conservation: New J. Conservation Biology book review of - "Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics" by Julia Fa, Stephan Funk & Robert Nasi + - "Trophy Hunting" by @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social & @adamhartscience.bsky.social #FreeAccess ⬇️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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Hunting for conservation
<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Looking forward to discussing Ben Neimark's new book: "Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious #Conservation Labor in #Madagascar" #bioprospecting #biopiracy #biodiversityoffsetting #extractivism #ethnobotany 🌿 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
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International Launch of B.Neimark's New Book: Hottest of the Hotspots
International Launch of Benjamin Neimark's New Book: 'Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar'
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Call for papers for @digitalclimate.bsky.social panel at RGS-IBG conference 2024! #climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/12/2023
Areas of Apurinã territory in Brazil's southern Amazonas state were sold under an NFT project that promised to preserve forest & generate carbon credits 🌎 Indigenous communities were not properly consulted The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:
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Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Octopus reveal lost history of Antarctica 🧪🦑🌎 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Lost history of Antarctica revealed in octopus DNA
Genes show signatures of an ice sheet collapse and warn of a precarious future
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
🎈Happy to share the 4min trailer from our new Future Pasts and Etosha-Kunene Histories research film “Lands That History Forgot”. Full film on its way soon. #oralhistory #memorymapping #Namibia #conservation vimeo.com/890049250
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Lands That History Forgot – Trailer
Short Trailer for new film from oral history and heritage mapping research through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) and Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net)…
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...
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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited vol...
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Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Thanks to @siansullivan.bsky.social for alerting me to this on that other increasingly horrible platform.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Saleem's last article, written w/ @farhana.bsky.social "Climate accountability is a shared duty, an intricate web of actions, decisions and commitments ... it’s the bedrock of our fight against the climate crisis", along with curtailing "influence of the fossil fuel industry in climate policies."
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In 2023 we’ve seen climate destruction in real time, yet rich countries are poised to do little at...
As another big climate conference looms and global ‘loss and damage’ takes hold, we must keep pressure on the biggest emitters, write Farhana Sultana and the late Saleemul Huq
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Having created the world-leading dubious carbon credit standard for the offsetting market, featuring a seemingly endless stream of scandalous failed projects worldwide, Verra, is now setting its sights on creating a Nature Framework for how projects can generate Nature Credits What can go wrong?
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SD VISta Nature Framework Now Open for Public Consultation - Verra
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