Annet Pauwelussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 130562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annet Pauwelussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annet |
| FAMILY NAME | Pauwelussen |
| SIGNATURE | PAUWELUSSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1349-9539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Chronicle of Disrupted Flows—Bordering of the Amphibious Bengal Delta
This paper examines the atmosphere of stagnation that has become characteristic of the contemporary Bengal Delta, particularly the Sundarbans. Although often framed as a climate crisis hotspot, this perspective risks naturalising a crisis that is historically produced. This paper argues that the region's present condition is rooted in its colonial past that systematically disrupted its dynamic and amphibious landscape, where seasonal floods, tide…
Politicizing Expertise for Dutch Broad Wellbeing: Knowledge Accountability for Transformative Change
Despite lamentations to the contrary, expertise continues to play an important role in contemporary societies. In the context of pressing sustainability challenges, calls for so-called transformative change are emerging, with concomitant expectations that knowledge and expertise can contribute to such change. One area in which such expertise is being developed is in the context of alternative concepts of wellbeing to replace the dominance of gros…
Governing through inscription: Edna biodiversity monitoring in North Sea offshore wind energy parks
The planned expansion of wind energy in the North Sea holds significant implications for marine biodiversity. Wind energy infrastructure can enhance biodiversity by providing hard substrates and reef-like habitats or degrade it by disturbing existing benthic habitat. However, it remains unclear what kinds of biodiversity will in practice be enhanced, in whose interest and for what purpose. To assess the effects of offshore wind energy parks on bi…
Oyster origin stories: How ‘native’ and ‘alien’ categories shape restoration in northwestern Europe
Restoration is gaining prominence as an approach to protect and rehabilitate marine ecologies in the Global North. It represents a shift from hands‐off conservation to a more hands‐on intervention to bring back species and habitats that are assumed to be degraded or lost. Understanding restoration as a practice of care illuminates the politics involved in how categorizations shape decisions about which forms of nature deserve rehabilitation. Draw…
The Park Multiple: Practices of Coordination in a Conservation-Tourism Partnership in South Africa
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…
The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands
This paper explores the consequences of a shift in Dutch coastal management. The management approach transitioned from aiming to keep the sea at bay toward the stimulation of dynamic sea-land relations. This shift toward "dynamic management" can be seen as part of wider trends in both ecological and science, technology, and society thinking on coasts as amphibious more-than-human entanglements. We draw on a case study of the Wadden Sea barrier is…
Rethinking blue economy governance – A blue economy equity model as an approach to operationalise equity
The blue economy was originally conceptualised as having a strong focus on social equity; however, in practice, these equity considerations have been overshadowed by neo-liberal capitalist agendas, which have become dominant in blue economy discourse. A continued expansion of ocean industry developments and activities has resulted in an inequitable share of the burdens and benefits of utilising ocean spaces and has exacerbated wealth disparities …
Restoration: An Introduction
Ecological restoration practices and technologies are emerging as a dominant tool for addressing global environmental crises. This shift in conservation from a protectionist paradigm to a more hands-on approach signifies a new era of active intervention to the repair of ecosystems. Such approaches demand novel forms of human participation, fostering new kinds of relations, practices, values, and assumptions of what is "natural." This special issu…
Co-producing the science–policy interface: Towards common but differentiated responsibilities
Formulating adequate responses to pressing socio-ecological challenges requires effective and legitimate knowledge production and use. The academic debate has gradually shifted from a linear model of science–policy relations towards co-productive alternatives. Yet, in practice, the linear model remains lingering. This paper uses a case study of a collaboration between a Dutch research institute and a ministerial department to examine how and why …
Leaky bodies: Masculinity and risk in the practice of cyanide fishing in Indonesia
Dive fishing with cyanide is known as a risky fishing practice, as it pushes or lures divers to the limits of what their bodies can take. Its association with physical danger is linked to a culture of machismo and a coming-of-age process in which young men prove their bravery and become part of a shared manhood. What often remains implicit in the understanding of risk-seeking activities is the notion of body and masculinity that such practices en…
Science, subsidies and the politics of the pulse trawl ban in the European Union
The decision to ban the pulse trawl by the European Parliament in early 2019 was influenced by public debate over its scientific and political legitimacy. In their 2019 paper in Marine Policy, Le Manach et al. continued this debate by making three claims. First, that the pulse trawl has substantial negative social and environmental impacts. Second, that it received ‘illegal’ subsidies from the European Union amounting to €20.8 million. And third,…
Amphibious Encounters: Coral and People in Conservation Outreach in Indonesia
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Indonesia, this article describes a conservation outreach project that attempts to educate and convert local people into coral protectors. Both coral and the sea-dwelling Bajau people appear to be amphibious beings, moving between a changeable land-water interface, and between different, fluidly interwoven ontological constellations. We show that the failure of conservation organizations to recognize …
Amphibious anthropology: Engaging with maritime worlds in Indonesia
This thesis explores how people live amphibiously in dynamic land-sea environments. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork (2011 - 2013) in the Makassar Strait maritime region in Indonesia: a complex and amphibious land-sea interface. In Western science little attention is given to how people live at sea. There is a general land bias, by which people are seen as primarily belonging to the land. Yet people do live at sea, or rath…
The Moves of a Bajau Middlewoman: Understanding the Disparity between Trade Networks and Marine Conservation
At the interface of Indonesia and Malaysia, border-crossing maritime trade appears to elude attempts to conserve marine resources. In Berau district (East Kalimantan) attempts to protect coastal waters from illegal fishing and trade fail to correspond with mobile trade networks. In this article, I describe how a female Bajau trader acts out her (illegal) trade network in practice. The article draws on 18 months of ethnographic research, during wh…
Amphibious anthropology: Engaging with maritime worlds in Indonesia
This thesis explores how people live amphibiously in dynamic land-sea environments. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork (2011 - 2013) in the Makassar Strait maritime region in Indonesia: a complex and amphibious land-sea interface. In Western science little attention is given to how people live at sea. There is a general land bias, by which people are seen as primarily belonging to the land. Yet people do live at sea, or rath…
Leaky bodies: Masculinity and risk in the practice of cyanide fishing in Indonesia
Dive fishing with cyanide is known as a risky fishing practice, as it pushes or lures divers to the limits of what their bodies can take. Its association with physical danger is linked to a culture of machismo and a coming-of-age process in which young men prove their bravery and become part of a shared manhood. What often remains implicit in the understanding of risk-seeking activities is the notion of body and masculinity that such practices en…
The Moves of a Bajau Middlewoman: Understanding the Disparity between Trade Networks and Marine Conservation
At the interface of Indonesia and Malaysia, border-crossing maritime trade appears to elude attempts to conserve marine resources. In Berau district (East Kalimantan) attempts to protect coastal waters from illegal fishing and trade fail to correspond with mobile trade networks. In this article, I describe how a female Bajau trader acts out her (illegal) trade network in practice. The article draws on 18 months of ethnographic research, during wh…
Rethinking blue economy governance – A blue economy equity model as an approach to operationalise equity
The blue economy was originally conceptualised as having a strong focus on social equity; however, in practice, these equity considerations have been overshadowed by neo-liberal capitalist agendas, which have become dominant in blue economy discourse. A continued expansion of ocean industry developments and activities has resulted in an inequitable share of the burdens and benefits of utilising ocean spaces and has exacerbated wealth disparities …
Restoration: An Introduction
Ecological restoration practices and technologies are emerging as a dominant tool for addressing global environmental crises. This shift in conservation from a protectionist paradigm to a more hands-on approach signifies a new era of active intervention to the repair of ecosystems. Such approaches demand novel forms of human participation, fostering new kinds of relations, practices, values, and assumptions of what is "natural." This special issu…
The Moves of a Bajau Middlewoman: Understanding the Disparity between Trade Networks and Marine Conservation
At the interface of Indonesia and Malaysia, border-crossing maritime trade appears to elude attempts to conserve marine resources. In Berau district (East Kalimantan) attempts to protect coastal waters from illegal fishing and trade fail to correspond with mobile trade networks. In this article, I describe how a female Bajau trader acts out her (illegal) trade network in practice. The article draws on 18 months of ethnographic research, during wh…
Amphibious Encounters: Coral and People in Conservation Outreach in Indonesia
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Indonesia, this article describes a conservation outreach project that attempts to educate and convert local people into coral protectors. Both coral and the sea-dwelling Bajau people appear to be amphibious beings, moving between a changeable land-water interface, and between different, fluidly interwoven ontological constellations. We show that the failure of conservation organizations to recognize …
Amphibious anthropology: Engaging with maritime worlds in Indonesia
This thesis explores how people live amphibiously in dynamic land-sea environments. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork (2011 - 2013) in the Makassar Strait maritime region in Indonesia: a complex and amphibious land-sea interface. In Western science little attention is given to how people live at sea. There is a general land bias, by which people are seen as primarily belonging to the land. Yet people do live at sea, or rath…
Science, subsidies and the politics of the pulse trawl ban in the European Union
The decision to ban the pulse trawl by the European Parliament in early 2019 was influenced by public debate over its scientific and political legitimacy. In their 2019 paper in Marine Policy, Le Manach et al. continued this debate by making three claims. First, that the pulse trawl has substantial negative social and environmental impacts. Second, that it received ‘illegal’ subsidies from the European Union amounting to €20.8 million. And third,…
Leaky bodies: Masculinity and risk in the practice of cyanide fishing in Indonesia
Dive fishing with cyanide is known as a risky fishing practice, as it pushes or lures divers to the limits of what their bodies can take. Its association with physical danger is linked to a culture of machismo and a coming-of-age process in which young men prove their bravery and become part of a shared manhood. What often remains implicit in the understanding of risk-seeking activities is the notion of body and masculinity that such practices en…
Co-producing the science–policy interface: Towards common but differentiated responsibilities
Formulating adequate responses to pressing socio-ecological challenges requires effective and legitimate knowledge production and use. The academic debate has gradually shifted from a linear model of science–policy relations towards co-productive alternatives. Yet, in practice, the linear model remains lingering. This paper uses a case study of a collaboration between a Dutch research institute and a ministerial department to examine how and why …
Rethinking blue economy governance – A blue economy equity model as an approach to operationalise equity
The blue economy was originally conceptualised as having a strong focus on social equity; however, in practice, these equity considerations have been overshadowed by neo-liberal capitalist agendas, which have become dominant in blue economy discourse. A continued expansion of ocean industry developments and activities has resulted in an inequitable share of the burdens and benefits of utilising ocean spaces and has exacerbated wealth disparities …
Restoration: An Introduction
Ecological restoration practices and technologies are emerging as a dominant tool for addressing global environmental crises. This shift in conservation from a protectionist paradigm to a more hands-on approach signifies a new era of active intervention to the repair of ecosystems. Such approaches demand novel forms of human participation, fostering new kinds of relations, practices, values, and assumptions of what is "natural." This special issu…
Oyster origin stories: How ‘native’ and ‘alien’ categories shape restoration in northwestern Europe
Restoration is gaining prominence as an approach to protect and rehabilitate marine ecologies in the Global North. It represents a shift from hands‐off conservation to a more hands‐on intervention to bring back species and habitats that are assumed to be degraded or lost. Understanding restoration as a practice of care illuminates the politics involved in how categorizations shape decisions about which forms of nature deserve rehabilitation. Draw…
The Park Multiple: Practices of Coordination in a Conservation-Tourism Partnership in South Africa
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…
The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands
This paper explores the consequences of a shift in Dutch coastal management. The management approach transitioned from aiming to keep the sea at bay toward the stimulation of dynamic sea-land relations. This shift toward "dynamic management" can be seen as part of wider trends in both ecological and science, technology, and society thinking on coasts as amphibious more-than-human entanglements. We draw on a case study of the Wadden Sea barrier is…
A Chronicle of Disrupted Flows—Bordering of the Amphibious Bengal Delta
This paper examines the atmosphere of stagnation that has become characteristic of the contemporary Bengal Delta, particularly the Sundarbans. Although often framed as a climate crisis hotspot, this perspective risks naturalising a crisis that is historically produced. This paper argues that the region's present condition is rooted in its colonial past that systematically disrupted its dynamic and amphibious landscape, where seasonal floods, tide…
Politicizing Expertise for Dutch Broad Wellbeing: Knowledge Accountability for Transformative Change
Despite lamentations to the contrary, expertise continues to play an important role in contemporary societies. In the context of pressing sustainability challenges, calls for so-called transformative change are emerging, with concomitant expectations that knowledge and expertise can contribute to such change. One area in which such expertise is being developed is in the context of alternative concepts of wellbeing to replace the dominance of gros…
Governing through inscription: Edna biodiversity monitoring in North Sea offshore wind energy parks
The planned expansion of wind energy in the North Sea holds significant implications for marine biodiversity. Wind energy infrastructure can enhance biodiversity by providing hard substrates and reef-like habitats or degrade it by disturbing existing benthic habitat. However, it remains unclear what kinds of biodiversity will in practice be enhanced, in whose interest and for what purpose. To assess the effects of offshore wind energy parks on bi…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works)