W Van Engelen

Datos Biográficos

ID5316
NOMBREW Van Engelen
NOMBRESW
APELLIDOVan Engelen
FIRMAVAN ENGELEN W
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cologne
ORCID0000-0002-2426-5180
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Porous fences and elephant agencies

    Open AccessW Van Engelen, Calkin et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2026

    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

    Open AccessW Van Engelen, Andreas Weber et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environment2025

    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

    Open AccessW Van Engelen, Annet Pauwelussen et al.ARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2025Referencias: 66

    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

    Open AccessArjan Van Dam, W Van Engelen et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 45

    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

    Open AccessPaula Alexiou, Julia Brekl et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 18

    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

    Open AccessLéa Lacan, Paula Alexiou et al.ARTICLESociologus2022Referencias: 39

    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 …