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ID30996
NOMBRESullivan
APELLIDOSullivan
FIRMASULLIVAN
AFILIACIONESBath Spa University
ORCID0000-0002-0522-8843
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAS829
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1995
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H10
  • What's Ontology Got to Do with It? On the Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Environmental Anthropology

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Environmental…•2026

    Ontology as a form of enquiry asks questions regarding the nature of being, so as to make assertions regarding the nature of reality and how this can legitimately be known. Ontology denotes what entities may exist, into what categories they can be sorted, and by what practices and methods they can be known (i.e., epistemology). A cross-cultural perspective affirms that cultural and historical differences create the possibility for plural ontologi…

  • On doodling and other modes of engagement in meltdown

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Human Rights and the…•2025•Referencias: 1

    This essay considers modes of engagement in contemporary times of ‘meltdown’. Written in 2022, prior to the recent escalation of Israel-Palestine-Lebanon conflict in the Middle East, it engages with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and varied threats of nuclear mobilization in this context: from damage to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power station, to launches of nuclear attack. In doing so, the lethal competitive links between fossil fuel and nuclear eco…

  • Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast

    Open Access•Open Book Publishers, Sian Sullivan et al.•BOOK•Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast•2024

    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, per…

  • On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2024

    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 complexities might be distilled into the idea that how 'the world' is socially known also shapes how the world is known to be. I explore three key issues worked through in these papers, partly with reference to work of mine, namely: 1) conservation struggles …

  • Hunting Africa

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2023•Citada por: 2

    In the post-Cold War neoliberal moment of the mid-1990s, Safari Club International's (SCI) nascent but now defunct 'African Chapter' published a Strategic Plan for Africa. Its aim was to secure the "greatest hunting grounds in the world" for access by SCI's hunting membership, the core of which is based in the United States. In advocating private sector-led trophy hunting under the umbrella of the SCI "market place", the plan supported an archety…

  • CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2023

    I respond to a recently published article in Ecology and Society, namely “Can the center hold? Boundary actors and marginality in a community-based natural resource management network” (Snorek and Bolger 2022). I provide additional information for three dimensions of this article: (1) historical context regarding the different and varied roots of contemporary marginalization of peoples along the !Khuiseb River, (2) the positioning and framing of …

  • Protest, Conflict and Litigation

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Ethnographies of Conservation•2022

    Book synopsis: Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, sugges…

  • Conservation Science and Discursive Violence

    Open Access•Koot, P G M Hebinck et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2022•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 14

    We respond to two rejoinders to our review article “Science for Success,” which proposed fuller contextualization of epistemological approach, researcher position and interests in conservation research. This way readers—including reviewers and journal editors—can better understand and interpret findings. We suggest this contextualization is particularly important when conservation and development professionals undertake research about programs th…

  • Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan et al.•CHAPTER•Mapping the Unmappable?•2021

  • Conservation Science and Discursive Violence

    Open Access•Koot, P G M Hebinck et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2021•Referencias: 12

    We respond to two rejoinders (Dickman et al. 2021; Naidoo et al. 2021) to our review article Science for Success (Koot et al. 2020), which proposed fuller contextualization of epistemological approach, researcher position and interests in conservation research. This way readers—including reviewers and journal editors—can more accurately understand and interpret findings. We suggest this contextualization is particularly important when conservatio…

  • Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

    Open Access•Sian Sullivan, Steffen Böhm et al.•BOOK•Negotiating Climate Change in…•2021•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 19

    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 volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays-a combination of new and re…

  • Producing elephant commodities for 'conservation hunting' in Namibian communal-area conservancies

    Open Access•Lee John Hewitson, Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2021•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 35

    Namibia's internationally acclaimed CBNRM program depends to a large extent on revenues generated from the trophy hunting of wild animals. The model is an important example of an increasingly 'neoliberal' global policy framework as applied to biodiversity conservation, its market-based approach and attendant socio-ecological effects having received in-depth engagement and critique from a political ecology perspective.Yet there remains a lack of d…

  • A faultline in neoliberal environmental governance scholarship? Or, why accumulation-by-alienation matters

    Open Access•Alexander Dunlap, Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning E Nature…•2020

    This article identifies an emerging faultline in critical geography and political ecology scholarship by reviewing recent debates on three neoliberal environmental governance initiatives: Payments for Ecosystem Services, the United Nations programme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries and carbon-biodiversity offsetting. These three approaches, we argue, are characterized by varying degrees of c…

  • Science for Success—A Conflict of Interest? Researcher Position and Reflexivity in Socio-Ecological Research for CBNRM in Namibia

    Open Access•Koot, P G M Hebinck et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2020•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 27

    This paper emphasizes the importance of researcher position and reflexivity for professionals in the ecological and development sciences. We draw on critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze a selection of scientific papers written by Namibian Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) professionals and their relationships with public discourse regarding this conservation and development program. These papers mainly show “success” whi…

  • Towards a metaphysics of the soul and a participatory aesthetics of life

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•New Formations•2019•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 10

    Towards a meTaphysics of The soul and a parTicipaTory aesTheTics of life: mobilising foucaulT, affecT and animism for caring pracTices of exisTence

  • "Speaking Power to "Post-Truth

    Benjamin Neimark, J Child et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2019•Citada por: 36•Referencias: 55

    Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …

  • On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2018

    Invited commentary on A.L. Tsing's 'The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins' (2015), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691162751.

  • Making Nature Investable

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Science & Technology Studies•2018•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 25

    In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently exterior ‘matter of fact’ that can be leveraged financially. Interconnected policy and technical texts, comb…

  • The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2017•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures

  • On 'Natural Capital', 'Fairy Tales' and Ideology

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2017•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 50

    Review essay for Dieter Helm's 'Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet'. London: Yale University Press, 2015. 277 pp. £20 hardback, £12.99 paperback

  • What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2017•Citada por: 51•Referencias: 26

    Contemporary market-based (i.e. neoliberal) 'green economy' approaches to environmental degradation emphasise exchanges whereby quantified units of environmental harm are traded or 'offset' for compensating units of environmental health. Also encouraged is a view that economic growth can be 'greened' through 'decoupling' economic value from material ecological realities. Such approaches tend to frame biophysical natures in terms of aggregates, su…

  • What’s ontology got to do with it?

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Environmental…•2016

    Ontology as a form of enquiry asks questions regarding the nature of being so as to make assertions regarding the known nature of reality and how this can be legitimately known. A cross-cultural perspective affirms that cultural and historical differences create the possibility for plural ontologies. It suggests the parallel existence of different ways of understanding how reality is constructed, how the world and its entities can be known, and w…

  • Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? LocatingGreenat Wildscreen

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2016•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 22

    Natural history films use technological mediations to frame aspects of nature so as to communicate information, in part through engendering particular viewer affects. As an entertainment industry embedded in capitalist social relations and concerned with competition for finance and ratings, natural history film-making is also a search for "the money shot" - associated with extremes including rarity, sensational behavior, and otherwise un(fore)see…

  • Nature on the Move III

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Nature Inc•2014

  • After the Green Rush? Biodiversity Offsets, Uranium Power and the ‘Calculus of Casualties’ in Greening Growth

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Human Geography•2013•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 17

    Biodiversity offsets are part of a new suite of biodiversity conservation instruments designed to mitigate the impacts of economic developments on species, habitats and ecosystems. Led by an international collaboration of representatives from companies, financial institutions, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) of the market-oriented Forest Trends group, has created a glob…

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  • Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation

    Bram Büscher, Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Capitalism Nature Socialism•2012•Citada por: 245•Referencias: 87

    Duffy

  • Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Antipode•2012•Citada por: 210•Referencias: 24

    In this paper I emphasise the financialisation of environmental conservation as 1. the turning of financiers to conservation parameters as a new frontier for investment, and 2. the rewriting of conservation practice and nonhuman worlds in terms of banking and financial categories. I introduce financialisation as a broadly controlling impetus with relevance for environmental conservation. I then note ways in which a spectacular investment frontier…

  • Global environmental justice and biodiversity conservation

    Open Access•Adrian Martins, Adrian Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Journal•2013•Citada por: 59•Referencias: 53

    This paper explores the potential for an environmental justice framing to shed new light on conservation controversies. We argue that, in order to make such progress, environmental justice analysis will need to provide a 'difference-friendly' conception of justice and that this will necessarily involve moving beyond dominant liberal conceptions of distributional fairness. We are largely welcoming of global deployments of distributive justice prin…

  • What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2017•Citada por: 51•Referencias: 26

    Contemporary market-based (i.e. neoliberal) 'green economy' approaches to environmental degradation emphasise exchanges whereby quantified units of environmental harm are traded or 'offset' for compensating units of environmental health. Also encouraged is a view that economic growth can be 'greened' through 'decoupling' economic value from material ecological realities. Such approaches tend to frame biophysical natures in terms of aggregates, su…

  • Ecosystem Service Commodities' - A New Imperial Ecology? Implications for Animist Immanent Ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•New Formations•2010•Citada por: 46•Referencias: 2

    Who gives a chicken's fart about the Garden of Eden and rural tranquillity and improbable things like that?No one thinks about that stuff any more.No one believes in it.All we care about is the next pay packet, the next meal, the next gratification, the next party, the next football match, the next sensation. 1TRANSFORMATION In 1944, as the Nazi Reich was drawing its final breaths, the economic historian Karl Polanyi wrote in The Great Transforma…

  • Elephant in the Room? Problematising ‘New’ (Neoliberal) Biodiversity Conservation

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Forum for Development Studies•2006•Citada por: 44•Referencias: 11

    As argued recently in Forum for Development Studies, a ‘back to the barriers’ approach to biodiversity conservation is again prevalent, after some two decades of emphasis on ‘community-based’ initiatives. This involves the establishment and expansion of national parks from which people are variously excluded. In this article, however, I suggest that community-based approaches such as Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) remain imp…

  • "Speaking Power to "Post-Truth

    Benjamin Neimark, J Child et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2019•Citada por: 36•Referencias: 55

    Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …

  • Making Nature Investable

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Science & Technology Studies•2018•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 25

    In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently exterior ‘matter of fact’ that can be leveraged financially. Interconnected policy and technical texts, comb…

  • After the Green Rush? Biodiversity Offsets, Uranium Power and the ‘Calculus of Casualties’ in Greening Growth

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Human Geography•2013•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 17

    Biodiversity offsets are part of a new suite of biodiversity conservation instruments designed to mitigate the impacts of economic developments on species, habitats and ecosystems. Led by an international collaboration of representatives from companies, financial institutions, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) of the market-oriented Forest Trends group, has created a glob…

  • Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

    Open Access•Sian Sullivan, Steffen Böhm et al.•BOOK•Negotiating Climate Change in…•2021•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 19

    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 volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays-a combination of new and re…

  • Producing elephant commodities for 'conservation hunting' in Namibian communal-area conservancies

    Open Access•Lee John Hewitson, Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2021•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 35

    Namibia's internationally acclaimed CBNRM program depends to a large extent on revenues generated from the trophy hunting of wild animals. The model is an important example of an increasingly 'neoliberal' global policy framework as applied to biodiversity conservation, its market-based approach and attendant socio-ecological effects having received in-depth engagement and critique from a political ecology perspective.Yet there remains a lack of d…

  • Becoming Global (Un)Civil Society

    Sullivan, André Spicer et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2011•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 21

    In this article we ask how ‘civil society’ actors and organizations can become constructed and treated as ‘uncivil society’. We contest the notion that ‘uncivil’ necessarily equates with the dark qualities of violence and organized criminality. Instead, we take a Gramscian perspective in suggesting that what becomes ‘uncivil’ is any practice and organization that substantially contests the structuring enclosures of hegemonic order, of which civil…

  • Conservation is sexy! What makes this so, and what does this make? An engagement with Celebrity and the environment

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Conservation and Society•2011•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 20

    This essay offers an engagement with Daniel Brockington's (2009) recent book Celebrity and the environment. I highlight the book's contribution to debate regarding processes of human displacement arising through biodiversity conservation under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. I first situate the book in relation to contemporary perspectives on displacement, justice, and human rights, using examples to illustrate complex and dynamic patterns o…

  • Towards a metaphysics of the soul and a participatory aesthetics of life

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•New Formations•2019•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 10

    Towards a meTaphysics of The soul and a parTicipaTory aesTheTics of life: mobilising foucaulT, affecT and animism for caring pracTices of exisTence

  • Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? LocatingGreenat Wildscreen

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2016•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 22

    Natural history films use technological mediations to frame aspects of nature so as to communicate information, in part through engendering particular viewer affects. As an entertainment industry embedded in capitalist social relations and concerned with competition for finance and ratings, natural history film-making is also a search for "the money shot" - associated with extremes including rarity, sensational behavior, and otherwise un(fore)see…

  • On 'Natural Capital', 'Fairy Tales' and Ideology

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2017•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 50

    Review essay for Dieter Helm's 'Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet'. London: Yale University Press, 2015. 277 pp. £20 hardback, £12.99 paperback

  • Science for Success—A Conflict of Interest? Researcher Position and Reflexivity in Socio-Ecological Research for CBNRM in Namibia

    Open Access•Koot, P G M Hebinck et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2020•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 27

    This paper emphasizes the importance of researcher position and reflexivity for professionals in the ecological and development sciences. We draw on critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze a selection of scientific papers written by Namibian Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) professionals and their relationships with public discourse regarding this conservation and development program. These papers mainly show “success” whi…

  • Comparing Alternative Media in North and South

    Open Access•Fabian Frenzel, Steffen Böhm et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2011•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 30

    Alternative media form an important part of the global mediascape. Research on this phenomenon is, however, often drawn from studies in the 'global North'. In this paper we discuss alternative media in the 'global South', by exploring two case studies of cooperation between Northern and Southern partners: IFIWatchnet in South America, and Indymedia Centre in Africa. We highlight how Northern and Southern partners differed in identity, organizatio…

  • The effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the palm savanna of North-Central Namibia

    Open Access•Tracey L Konstant, Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1995•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 9

  • The impact of utilization of palm products on the population structure of the vegetable ivory palm (Hyphaene petersiana, arecaceae) in North-Central Namibia

    Open Access•Sullivan, S Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1995•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

  • Hunting Africa

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2023•Citada por: 2

    In the post-Cold War neoliberal moment of the mid-1990s, Safari Club International's (SCI) nascent but now defunct 'African Chapter' published a Strategic Plan for Africa. Its aim was to secure the "greatest hunting grounds in the world" for access by SCI's hunting membership, the core of which is based in the United States. In advocating private sector-led trophy hunting under the umbrella of the SCI "market place", the plan supported an archety…

  • The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2017•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures

  • Conservation Science and Discursive Violence

    Open Access•Koot, P G M Hebinck et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2022•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 14

    We respond to two rejoinders to our review article “Science for Success,” which proposed fuller contextualization of epistemological approach, researcher position and interests in conservation research. This way readers—including reviewers and journal editors—can better understand and interpret findings. We suggest this contextualization is particularly important when conservation and development professionals undertake research about programs th…

  • Supposing Truth Is a Woman

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•International Feminist Journal of…•2011•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 7

    In this commentary I engage with Coleman and Bassi's significant intervention ‘Deconstructing Militant Manhood’. My intention is a further problematization of what they identify as the exclusionary orderings of powerful gendered and heteronormative scripts within left-political organizations that otherwise identify with a project of contesting the inequities associated with patriarchal modernity. I draw on Nietzsche in considering the production …

  • Rhythm and timing of movement in performance

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2007•Citada por: 1

  • The effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the palm savanna of North-Central Namibia

    Open Access•Tracey L Konstant, Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1995•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 9

  • The impact of utilization of palm products on the population structure of the vegetable ivory palm (Hyphaene petersiana, arecaceae) in North-Central Namibia

    Open Access•Sullivan, S Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1995•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 9

  • Political Ecology

    Open Access•Philip Stott, Philip Anthony Stott et al.•BOOK•Political ecology•2000

    Book synopsis: This important new book offers a state-of-the-art examination of political ecology, its evolution as an academic subject, and how environmental knowledge is used in the realm of global international politics. Focusing on the development of environmental knowledge with particular regard to the developing world, the book above all explores the discrepancies between environmental policies implemented by domineering international bodie…

  • ‘We are heartbroken and furious!’

    Sullivan•CHAPTER•Critical Theories, International…•2004

    I am at the European Union (EU) ‘counter-summit’ in Thessaloniki. Prior to the main protests on 21 June, the last day of the summit, I spend several hours in Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University campus, where squatting militant activists are taking advantage of the legal asylum granted on university premises. Here, in a philosophy department strewn with somewhat nihilistic graffiti (‘peace, love and petrol bombs’, ‘from pigs to bacon’, ‘middle cla…

  • Elephant in the Room? Problematising ‘New’ (Neoliberal) Biodiversity Conservation

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Forum for Development Studies•2006•Citada por: 44•Referencias: 11

    As argued recently in Forum for Development Studies, a ‘back to the barriers’ approach to biodiversity conservation is again prevalent, after some two decades of emphasis on ‘community-based’ initiatives. This involves the establishment and expansion of national parks from which people are variously excluded. In this article, however, I suggest that community-based approaches such as Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) remain imp…

  • Rhythm and timing of movement in performance

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2007•Citada por: 1

  • Ecosystem Service Commodities' - A New Imperial Ecology? Implications for Animist Immanent Ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•New Formations•2010•Citada por: 46•Referencias: 2

    Who gives a chicken's fart about the Garden of Eden and rural tranquillity and improbable things like that?No one thinks about that stuff any more.No one believes in it.All we care about is the next pay packet, the next meal, the next gratification, the next party, the next football match, the next sensation. 1TRANSFORMATION In 1944, as the Nazi Reich was drawing its final breaths, the economic historian Karl Polanyi wrote in The Great Transforma…

  • Becoming Global (Un)Civil Society

    Sullivan, André Spicer et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2011•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 21

    In this article we ask how ‘civil society’ actors and organizations can become constructed and treated as ‘uncivil society’. We contest the notion that ‘uncivil’ necessarily equates with the dark qualities of violence and organized criminality. Instead, we take a Gramscian perspective in suggesting that what becomes ‘uncivil’ is any practice and organization that substantially contests the structuring enclosures of hegemonic order, of which civil…

  • Supposing Truth Is a Woman

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•International Feminist Journal of…•2011•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 7

    In this commentary I engage with Coleman and Bassi's significant intervention ‘Deconstructing Militant Manhood’. My intention is a further problematization of what they identify as the exclusionary orderings of powerful gendered and heteronormative scripts within left-political organizations that otherwise identify with a project of contesting the inequities associated with patriarchal modernity. I draw on Nietzsche in considering the production …

  • Conservation is sexy! What makes this so, and what does this make? An engagement with Celebrity and the environment

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Conservation and Society•2011•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 20

    This essay offers an engagement with Daniel Brockington's (2009) recent book Celebrity and the environment. I highlight the book's contribution to debate regarding processes of human displacement arising through biodiversity conservation under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. I first situate the book in relation to contemporary perspectives on displacement, justice, and human rights, using examples to illustrate complex and dynamic patterns o…

  • Comparing Alternative Media in North and South

    Open Access•Fabian Frenzel, Steffen Böhm et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2011•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 30

    Alternative media form an important part of the global mediascape. Research on this phenomenon is, however, often drawn from studies in the 'global North'. In this paper we discuss alternative media in the 'global South', by exploring two case studies of cooperation between Northern and Southern partners: IFIWatchnet in South America, and Indymedia Centre in Africa. We highlight how Northern and Southern partners differed in identity, organizatio…

  • Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Antipode•2012•Citada por: 210•Referencias: 24

    In this paper I emphasise the financialisation of environmental conservation as 1. the turning of financiers to conservation parameters as a new frontier for investment, and 2. the rewriting of conservation practice and nonhuman worlds in terms of banking and financial categories. I introduce financialisation as a broadly controlling impetus with relevance for environmental conservation. I then note ways in which a spectacular investment frontier…

  • Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation

    Bram Büscher, Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Capitalism Nature Socialism•2012•Citada por: 245•Referencias: 87

    Duffy

  • "Living among "Things of Value

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2012•Referencias: 6

  • After the Green Rush? Biodiversity Offsets, Uranium Power and the ‘Calculus of Casualties’ in Greening Growth

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Human Geography•2013•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 17

    Biodiversity offsets are part of a new suite of biodiversity conservation instruments designed to mitigate the impacts of economic developments on species, habitats and ecosystems. Led by an international collaboration of representatives from companies, financial institutions, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) of the market-oriented Forest Trends group, has created a glob…

  • Global environmental justice and biodiversity conservation

    Open Access•Adrian Martins, Adrian Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Journal•2013•Citada por: 59•Referencias: 53

    This paper explores the potential for an environmental justice framing to shed new light on conservation controversies. We argue that, in order to make such progress, environmental justice analysis will need to provide a 'difference-friendly' conception of justice and that this will necessarily involve moving beyond dominant liberal conceptions of distributional fairness. We are largely welcoming of global deployments of distributive justice prin…

  • Nature on the Move III

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Nature Inc•2014

  • What’s ontology got to do with it?

    Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Environmental…•2016

    Ontology as a form of enquiry asks questions regarding the nature of being so as to make assertions regarding the known nature of reality and how this can be legitimately known. A cross-cultural perspective affirms that cultural and historical differences create the possibility for plural ontologies. It suggests the parallel existence of different ways of understanding how reality is constructed, how the world and its entities can be known, and w…

  • Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? LocatingGreenat Wildscreen

    Sullivan•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2016•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 22

    Natural history films use technological mediations to frame aspects of nature so as to communicate information, in part through engendering particular viewer affects. As an entertainment industry embedded in capitalist social relations and concerned with competition for finance and ratings, natural history film-making is also a search for "the money shot" - associated with extremes including rarity, sensational behavior, and otherwise un(fore)see…

  • The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2017•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures

  • On 'Natural Capital', 'Fairy Tales' and Ideology

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2017•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 50

    Review essay for Dieter Helm's 'Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet'. London: Yale University Press, 2015. 277 pp. £20 hardback, £12.99 paperback

  • What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2017•Citada por: 51•Referencias: 26

    Contemporary market-based (i.e. neoliberal) 'green economy' approaches to environmental degradation emphasise exchanges whereby quantified units of environmental harm are traded or 'offset' for compensating units of environmental health. Also encouraged is a view that economic growth can be 'greened' through 'decoupling' economic value from material ecological realities. Such approaches tend to frame biophysical natures in terms of aggregates, su…

  • On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2018

    Invited commentary on A.L. Tsing's 'The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins' (2015), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691162751.

  • Making Nature Investable

    Open Access•Sullivan•ARTICLE•Science & Technology Studies•2018•Citada por: 28•Referencias: 25

    In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently exterior ‘matter of fact’ that can be leveraged financially. Interconnected policy and technical texts, comb…

  • Towards a metaphysics of the soul and a participatory aesthetics of life

    Open Access•Sullivan, Sian Sullivan•ARTICLE•New Formations•2019•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 10

    Towards a meTaphysics of The soul and a parTicipaTory aesTheTics of life: mobilising foucaulT, affecT and animism for caring pracTices of exisTence

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