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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12d

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

Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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?

www.openbookpublishers.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12d

Highlights & Abstract here ⬇️

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 12d

🦏 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...

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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations 🎉 those cakes look divine 😍

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jul 2

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 🐝

A BEE SONG video

"A Bee Song" is a new single by recording artist Banco de Gaia (https://banco.co.uk/) and Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) – a research project…

vimeo.com

Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jul 2

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...

A Bee Song | Banco de Gaia

Based on a traditional Damara (Namibian) song that praises the honey bee, A Bee Song brings Banco de Gaia together with the Future Pasts project to create an uplifting and vibrant track full of life and humanity. With an infectious groove and a buzzing bassline, the track is guaranteed to get heads nodding and feet

banco.co.uk

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jul 2

"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...

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.

doeklitmag.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 11

#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...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Apr 9

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 · Mar 10

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Mar 10

☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻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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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

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Sanna KO:MI @sannakomi.bsky.social · Mar 5

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 · Feb 6

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

Journal of Political Ecology

journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

‘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.

theconversation.com

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Luregn @luregn.bsky.social · Jan 20

Come join us! I'm looking for a PhD researcher in African environmental history, political ecology, or environmental humanities for my new project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change at the Centre for African Studies Basel! #envhist #envhum #hisotry shorturl.at/rtQbT

Universität Basel: PhD Researcher in African Environmental History, Political Ecology or Environmental Humanities

The PhD will be based at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and be part of the SNSF Starting Grant Project: “Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change”....

shorturl.at

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Jan 10

Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚

Conservation Namibia @conservnamibia.bsky.social · Jan 9

Creating a database of Namibia's 4,200 indigenous plants is a mammoth task! Herta and Sofia started this process by focusing on the 700 plants that occur only in Namibia (endemic) and the 715 near-endemic species. There is a role for citizen science too!
conservationnamibia.com/articles/uni...

Uniquely Namibian: Namibia's Endemic and Near-Endemic Plants

Namibia is home to over 1,400 plants that occur only or mainly in the country. Botanists are collecting information about these plants through a special project.

conservationnamibia.com

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Conservation Namibia @conservnamibia.bsky.social · Jan 9

Creating a database of Namibia's 4,200 indigenous plants is a mammoth task! Herta and Sofia started this process by focusing on the 700 plants that occur only in Namibia (endemic) and the 715 near-endemic species. There is a role for citizen science too!
conservationnamibia.com/articles/uni...

Uniquely Namibian: Namibia's Endemic and Near-Endemic Plants

Namibia is home to over 1,400 plants that occur only or mainly in the country. Botanists are collecting information about these plants through a special project.

conservationnamibia.com

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · Dec 22

🌳 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...

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.”

reddmonitor.substack.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Dec 18

⬇️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...

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.

therevelator.org

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Dec 11

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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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · Dec 4

☀️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

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",…

vimeo.com

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