W Van Engelen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Van Engelen |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Engelen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ENGELEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2426-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Porous fences and elephant agencies
Despite a recent surge of literature on infrastructure and space, infrastructure breakdown in many domains continues to be presented as the result of technical failure, neglect of maintenance, or human sabotage. Infrastructure breakdown is thus mostly cast as abnormal and as caused by deficient materials, lacking resources or disobedient humans, reproducing normative ideas that successful infrastructure should be stable in its environment and wor…
Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Global foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control policy is largely based on nineteenth-century British ideas about the disease. This partiality risks creating the impression that these ideas of the disease are universal. In this article, therefore, we provincialise the notion of FMD by describing how veterinarians came to know the disease in colonial and postcolonial Botswana. Specifically, we focus on the 1960s and 1970s to write a postcolonial, more…
The Park Multiple
Conservation-tourism partnerships are often promoted as win-win solutions to the twin problems of underfunded conservation and unsustainable development. Critics on the other hand have warned about the tendency toward win-lose outcomes, when nature is reduced to a tourism commodity. This article intervenes in this debate by contributing to a scholarship in Science and Technology Studies on ontological multiplicity. We present an ethnographic case…
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa
Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans and other-than-humans. These critiques are especially relevant in the context of Southern Africa, where extreme inequalities amongst humans persist whilst w…
The Assemblage
This article examines the concept of “assemblage” in anthropological research on multispecies relations. The contribution begins by situating “the multispecies assemblage” within the theoretical legacy of Deleuze and Guattari. Then, it delves into three case studies of multispecies research in southern Africa, first to highlight their use of the assemblage as an analytical framework, and second to discuss methodological implications. Overall, we …
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa
Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans and other-than-humans. These critiques are especially relevant in the context of Southern Africa, where extreme inequalities amongst humans persist whilst w…
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
The Assemblage
This article examines the concept of “assemblage” in anthropological research on multispecies relations. The contribution begins by situating “the multispecies assemblage” within the theoretical legacy of Deleuze and Guattari. Then, it delves into three case studies of multispecies research in southern Africa, first to highlight their use of the assemblage as an analytical framework, and second to discuss methodological implications. Overall, we …
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa
Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans and other-than-humans. These critiques are especially relevant in the context of Southern Africa, where extreme inequalities amongst humans persist whilst w…
Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Global foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control policy is largely based on nineteenth-century British ideas about the disease. This partiality risks creating the impression that these ideas of the disease are universal. In this article, therefore, we provincialise the notion of FMD by describing how veterinarians came to know the disease in colonial and postcolonial Botswana. Specifically, we focus on the 1960s and 1970s to write a postcolonial, more…
The Park Multiple
Conservation-tourism partnerships are often promoted as win-win solutions to the twin problems of underfunded conservation and unsustainable development. Critics on the other hand have warned about the tendency toward win-lose outcomes, when nature is reduced to a tourism commodity. This article intervenes in this debate by contributing to a scholarship in Science and Technology Studies on ontological multiplicity. We present an ethnographic case…
Porous fences and elephant agencies
Despite a recent surge of literature on infrastructure and space, infrastructure breakdown in many domains continues to be presented as the result of technical failure, neglect of maintenance, or human sabotage. Infrastructure breakdown is thus mostly cast as abnormal and as caused by deficient materials, lacking resources or disobedient humans, reproducing normative ideas that successful infrastructure should be stable in its environment and wor…
Geography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)