Bilal Butt
Biographic Data
| ID | 102035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilal Butt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilal |
| FAMILY NAME | Butt |
| SIGNATURE | BUTT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1613-0921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Spaces of private conservation: State effects and hierarchical autonomy in private wildlife conservation
From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies
Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppressed peoples. Despite these critiques, there has been little change in how conservation is conceptualised and implemented, resulting in the continuation of violence, racism, and injustice. Abolition ecologies offer a framework to see the world through a…
We Women Are Suffering: Fragile Water Infrastructure and Gendered Embodied Labor
One of the core tenets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is the achievement of universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In Kilifi County, Kenya, the official narrative claims all residents have access to clean and safe drinking water. Many residents counter the official narratives, however, saying they experience frequent water supply interruptions and often go months, sometime…
Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm
Agricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated into human society as political subjects, a shift that signifies a reorientation of bovine discipline a…
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya
Over the last thirty years, community conservancies have become widespread in several African countries exemplifying new patterns of land and resource governance strategies. Since 1995, thirty-nine new community conservancies have been established in association with an NGO - the Northern Rangelands Trust in Kenya. Through community conservancies, or community-owned conservation initiatives organized around a demarcated area, the rights and respo…
Doing environmental justice: Prospects for sustainable engagement-From classroom to fieldwork
In response to national attention on questions of how racial justice is still unrealized, different academic institutes have sought to increase diversity and justice in their curricula, institutional practices, and immersive experiences for their students. This has normally taken the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Yet there remain significant obstacles to how inequities and lack of attention to power differential across race…
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of "making live" and "letting die" in anti-poaching practices
Wildlife poaching has been and continues to be of significant concern to environmental sustainability. While descriptions of poaching often include vivid details about the animal victims and the heroics of those fighting to conserve biodiversity, ambiguity still surrounds 'the poacher.' Clarifying the identity of a poacher is necessary to expose a societal tendency to enforce stereotypes on others that perpetuate violence and inequality. Without …
The gasoline of the future: ” Points of Continuity, Energy Materiality, and Corporate Marketing of Electric Vehicles Among Automakers and Utilities
Digital Data and Knowledge Making in the Field
Using digital data collection devices in the field is now commonplace among many faculty and students. However, there is less attention to how the use of GPS units, tablets and devices transforms or alters our understanding of the field itself. Does the embrace of the digital simply replace paper, or does it fundamentally transform our ways of knowing? What do we gain and what do we lose as we move from paper to digital in the acts of doing field…
Afro-Chinese engagements: Infrastructure, land, labour and finance Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Environmental indicators and governance
Herding by Mobile Phone: Technology, Social Networks and the "Transformation" of Pastoral Herding in East Africa
Q Fever Risk Across a Dynamic, Heterogeneous Landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya
Biophysical Variability and Pastoral Rights to Resources: West African Transhumance Revisited
The Political Ecology of 'Incursions: Livestock, Protected Areas and Socio-Ecological Dynamics in the Mara Region of Kenya
Across the world, the presence of domestic animals in protected areas (PAs) is considered an 'incursion' that threatens the economic and ecological viability of these areas. Dominant narratives about incursions inaccurately describe the relationships between people and PAs because they lack adequate contextualization. In this paper, I rely on a political-ecological framework to argue for an alternative narrative. Through a case study from a PA in…
Commoditizing the safari and making space for conflict: Place, identity and parks in East Africa
Coping with Uncertainty and Variability: The Influence of Protected Areas on Pastoral Herding Strategies in East Africa
Pastoral Herd Management, Drought Coping Strategies, and Cattle Mobility in Southern Kenya
Livestock mobility facilitates opportunistic grazing management strategies that pastoralists employ to counter environmental variability in rangelands. One such strategy is moving livestock to temporary camps that are closer to areas of underutilized forage during times of drought. In areas where pastoralists graze near large protected areas, movement into protected areas, where both forage quantity and quality are higher, is also a common strate…
Pastoral Herd Management, Drought Coping Strategies, and Cattle Mobility in Southern Kenya
Livestock mobility facilitates opportunistic grazing management strategies that pastoralists employ to counter environmental variability in rangelands. One such strategy is moving livestock to temporary camps that are closer to areas of underutilized forage during times of drought. In areas where pastoralists graze near large protected areas, movement into protected areas, where both forage quantity and quality are higher, is also a common strate…
The Political Ecology of 'Incursions: Livestock, Protected Areas and Socio-Ecological Dynamics in the Mara Region of Kenya
Across the world, the presence of domestic animals in protected areas (PAs) is considered an 'incursion' that threatens the economic and ecological viability of these areas. Dominant narratives about incursions inaccurately describe the relationships between people and PAs because they lack adequate contextualization. In this paper, I rely on a political-ecological framework to argue for an alternative narrative. Through a case study from a PA in…
Commoditizing the safari and making space for conflict: Place, identity and parks in East Africa
Coping with Uncertainty and Variability: The Influence of Protected Areas on Pastoral Herding Strategies in East Africa
Biophysical Variability and Pastoral Rights to Resources: West African Transhumance Revisited
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya
Over the last thirty years, community conservancies have become widespread in several African countries exemplifying new patterns of land and resource governance strategies. Since 1995, thirty-nine new community conservancies have been established in association with an NGO - the Northern Rangelands Trust in Kenya. Through community conservancies, or community-owned conservation initiatives organized around a demarcated area, the rights and respo…
The gasoline of the future: ” Points of Continuity, Energy Materiality, and Corporate Marketing of Electric Vehicles Among Automakers and Utilities
Afro-Chinese engagements: Infrastructure, land, labour and finance Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Environmental indicators and governance
Herding by Mobile Phone: Technology, Social Networks and the "Transformation" of Pastoral Herding in East Africa
From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies
Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppressed peoples. Despite these critiques, there has been little change in how conservation is conceptualised and implemented, resulting in the continuation of violence, racism, and injustice. Abolition ecologies offer a framework to see the world through a…
Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm
Agricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated into human society as political subjects, a shift that signifies a reorientation of bovine discipline a…
Doing environmental justice: Prospects for sustainable engagement-From classroom to fieldwork
In response to national attention on questions of how racial justice is still unrealized, different academic institutes have sought to increase diversity and justice in their curricula, institutional practices, and immersive experiences for their students. This has normally taken the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Yet there remain significant obstacles to how inequities and lack of attention to power differential across race…
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of "making live" and "letting die" in anti-poaching practices
Wildlife poaching has been and continues to be of significant concern to environmental sustainability. While descriptions of poaching often include vivid details about the animal victims and the heroics of those fighting to conserve biodiversity, ambiguity still surrounds 'the poacher.' Clarifying the identity of a poacher is necessary to expose a societal tendency to enforce stereotypes on others that perpetuate violence and inequality. Without …
Digital Data and Knowledge Making in the Field
Using digital data collection devices in the field is now commonplace among many faculty and students. However, there is less attention to how the use of GPS units, tablets and devices transforms or alters our understanding of the field itself. Does the embrace of the digital simply replace paper, or does it fundamentally transform our ways of knowing? What do we gain and what do we lose as we move from paper to digital in the acts of doing field…
Pastoral Herd Management, Drought Coping Strategies, and Cattle Mobility in Southern Kenya
Livestock mobility facilitates opportunistic grazing management strategies that pastoralists employ to counter environmental variability in rangelands. One such strategy is moving livestock to temporary camps that are closer to areas of underutilized forage during times of drought. In areas where pastoralists graze near large protected areas, movement into protected areas, where both forage quantity and quality are higher, is also a common strate…
Coping with Uncertainty and Variability: The Influence of Protected Areas on Pastoral Herding Strategies in East Africa
Commoditizing the safari and making space for conflict: Place, identity and parks in East Africa
Q Fever Risk Across a Dynamic, Heterogeneous Landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya
Biophysical Variability and Pastoral Rights to Resources: West African Transhumance Revisited
The Political Ecology of 'Incursions: Livestock, Protected Areas and Socio-Ecological Dynamics in the Mara Region of Kenya
Across the world, the presence of domestic animals in protected areas (PAs) is considered an 'incursion' that threatens the economic and ecological viability of these areas. Dominant narratives about incursions inaccurately describe the relationships between people and PAs because they lack adequate contextualization. In this paper, I rely on a political-ecological framework to argue for an alternative narrative. Through a case study from a PA in…
Herding by Mobile Phone: Technology, Social Networks and the "Transformation" of Pastoral Herding in East Africa
Environmental indicators and governance
Afro-Chinese engagements: Infrastructure, land, labour and finance Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Digital Data and Knowledge Making in the Field
Using digital data collection devices in the field is now commonplace among many faculty and students. However, there is less attention to how the use of GPS units, tablets and devices transforms or alters our understanding of the field itself. Does the embrace of the digital simply replace paper, or does it fundamentally transform our ways of knowing? What do we gain and what do we lose as we move from paper to digital in the acts of doing field…
The gasoline of the future: ” Points of Continuity, Energy Materiality, and Corporate Marketing of Electric Vehicles Among Automakers and Utilities
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya
Over the last thirty years, community conservancies have become widespread in several African countries exemplifying new patterns of land and resource governance strategies. Since 1995, thirty-nine new community conservancies have been established in association with an NGO - the Northern Rangelands Trust in Kenya. Through community conservancies, or community-owned conservation initiatives organized around a demarcated area, the rights and respo…
Doing environmental justice: Prospects for sustainable engagement-From classroom to fieldwork
In response to national attention on questions of how racial justice is still unrealized, different academic institutes have sought to increase diversity and justice in their curricula, institutional practices, and immersive experiences for their students. This has normally taken the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Yet there remain significant obstacles to how inequities and lack of attention to power differential across race…
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of "making live" and "letting die" in anti-poaching practices
Wildlife poaching has been and continues to be of significant concern to environmental sustainability. While descriptions of poaching often include vivid details about the animal victims and the heroics of those fighting to conserve biodiversity, ambiguity still surrounds 'the poacher.' Clarifying the identity of a poacher is necessary to expose a societal tendency to enforce stereotypes on others that perpetuate violence and inequality. Without …
Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm
Agricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated into human society as political subjects, a shift that signifies a reorientation of bovine discipline a…
From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies
Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppressed peoples. Despite these critiques, there has been little change in how conservation is conceptualised and implemented, resulting in the continuation of violence, racism, and injustice. Abolition ecologies offer a framework to see the world through a…
We Women Are Suffering: Fragile Water Infrastructure and Gendered Embodied Labor
One of the core tenets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is the achievement of universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In Kilifi County, Kenya, the official narrative claims all residents have access to clean and safe drinking water. Many residents counter the official narratives, however, saying they experience frequent water supply interruptions and often go months, sometime…
Spaces of private conservation: State effects and hierarchical autonomy in private wildlife conservation
Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Livestock (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works)