Yolanda Ariadne Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yolanda Ariadne Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yolanda Ariadne |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS Y A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4138-9158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mine the volume
Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. We recognise that as mining expands throug…
A political ecology of atmospheres
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation science and practice involves a transition towards more locally rooted, plural, socially just, and convivial forms of conservation, moving away from mainstream conservation approaches, such as protected areas, sustainable resource management plans, or market-based instruments that are strongly rooted in Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies. In this article, we introduce and review the contributions to t…
From Green to Black
Within political ecology research, a dominant focus on the hard physicality of the world limits engagement with how events taking place on land mediate and are mediated by other material spaces like the atmosphere. This paper engages with burgeoning research on the extraction-conservation nexus to highlight how the clearly demarcated land-based boundaries on which nexus thinking relies limit an awareness of how processes of conservation and extra…
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname
Research on the overlap between race and vulnerability to the physical and governance-related aspects of climate change is often globally scaled, based on extended temporalities, and colour-coded with non-white populations recognized as being at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change. This article shows how de-centring whiteness from its position as automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for gr…
Guyana in the Eye of the Storm in 2021
Guyana, a small oft-forgotten country in South America, has seen its prospects shift markedly in recent years. Previously lauded as a world leader in environ- mental conservation and avoided deforestation initiatives, Guyana recently made international headlines when significant oil discoveries were made in its territorial waters. Using a model of convergence, stasis and reverberation, this article posi- tions these developments historically and …
The extractive embrace
This paper demonstrates what the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative would have to do to satisfy the expectations of its diverse, local stakeholders. It connects the unmet expectations of REDD+ with a deepening reliance on extractive activity in the Guiana Shield. In it, I argue that extractive activity, which has always been the most significant driver of deforestation in the ecoregion, is further over…
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
How Redd+ governs
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation mechanism is a policy instrument intended to achieve environmental conservation and utilization simultaneously. Recently, researchers have adopted 'environmentality', a theoretical approach that recognizes the different strategies for the 'conduct of conduct' embodied in environmental governance, to parse the diverse governing logics supporting Reducing Emissions from Deforestation …
Colonial residue
Global Guyana
In Global Guyana, Oneka LaBennett charts Guyana’s political economy of erasure. She draws attention to the way that Guyana, in popular media representations and discourses, exhibits a certain taken
Forests of Refuge
Cover: Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield, edited by Yolanda Ariadne Collins.As the world hurtles deeper into the catastrophe of the climate cri
Colonial residue
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
A political ecology of atmospheres
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname
Research on the overlap between race and vulnerability to the physical and governance-related aspects of climate change is often globally scaled, based on extended temporalities, and colour-coded with non-white populations recognized as being at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change. This article shows how de-centring whiteness from its position as automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for gr…
How Redd+ governs
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation mechanism is a policy instrument intended to achieve environmental conservation and utilization simultaneously. Recently, researchers have adopted 'environmentality', a theoretical approach that recognizes the different strategies for the 'conduct of conduct' embodied in environmental governance, to parse the diverse governing logics supporting Reducing Emissions from Deforestation …
From Green to Black
Within political ecology research, a dominant focus on the hard physicality of the world limits engagement with how events taking place on land mediate and are mediated by other material spaces like the atmosphere. This paper engages with burgeoning research on the extraction-conservation nexus to highlight how the clearly demarcated land-based boundaries on which nexus thinking relies limit an awareness of how processes of conservation and extra…
Mine the volume
Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. We recognise that as mining expands throug…
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation science and practice involves a transition towards more locally rooted, plural, socially just, and convivial forms of conservation, moving away from mainstream conservation approaches, such as protected areas, sustainable resource management plans, or market-based instruments that are strongly rooted in Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies. In this article, we introduce and review the contributions to t…
The extractive embrace
This paper demonstrates what the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative would have to do to satisfy the expectations of its diverse, local stakeholders. It connects the unmet expectations of REDD+ with a deepening reliance on extractive activity in the Guiana Shield. In it, I argue that extractive activity, which has always been the most significant driver of deforestation in the ecoregion, is further over…
Colonial residue
How Redd+ governs
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation mechanism is a policy instrument intended to achieve environmental conservation and utilization simultaneously. Recently, researchers have adopted 'environmentality', a theoretical approach that recognizes the different strategies for the 'conduct of conduct' embodied in environmental governance, to parse the diverse governing logics supporting Reducing Emissions from Deforestation …
Plotting the coloniality of conservation
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservati…
Guyana in the Eye of the Storm in 2021
Guyana, a small oft-forgotten country in South America, has seen its prospects shift markedly in recent years. Previously lauded as a world leader in environ- mental conservation and avoided deforestation initiatives, Guyana recently made international headlines when significant oil discoveries were made in its territorial waters. Using a model of convergence, stasis and reverberation, this article posi- tions these developments historically and …
The extractive embrace
This paper demonstrates what the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative would have to do to satisfy the expectations of its diverse, local stakeholders. It connects the unmet expectations of REDD+ with a deepening reliance on extractive activity in the Guiana Shield. In it, I argue that extractive activity, which has always been the most significant driver of deforestation in the ecoregion, is further over…
Racing climate change in Guyana and Suriname
Research on the overlap between race and vulnerability to the physical and governance-related aspects of climate change is often globally scaled, based on extended temporalities, and colour-coded with non-white populations recognized as being at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change. This article shows how de-centring whiteness from its position as automatic, oppositional counterpart to blackness can make space for gr…
Global Guyana
In Global Guyana, Oneka LaBennett charts Guyana’s political economy of erasure. She draws attention to the way that Guyana, in popular media representations and discourses, exhibits a certain taken
Forests of Refuge
Cover: Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield, edited by Yolanda Ariadne Collins.As the world hurtles deeper into the catastrophe of the climate cri
A political ecology of atmospheres
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation
Decolonizing biodiversity conservation science and practice involves a transition towards more locally rooted, plural, socially just, and convivial forms of conservation, moving away from mainstream conservation approaches, such as protected areas, sustainable resource management plans, or market-based instruments that are strongly rooted in Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies. In this article, we introduce and review the contributions to t…
From Green to Black
Within political ecology research, a dominant focus on the hard physicality of the world limits engagement with how events taking place on land mediate and are mediated by other material spaces like the atmosphere. This paper engages with burgeoning research on the extraction-conservation nexus to highlight how the clearly demarcated land-based boundaries on which nexus thinking relies limit an awareness of how processes of conservation and extra…
Mine the volume
Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. We recognise that as mining expands throug…
Political science (10 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Climate change (4 works)