Caroline Upton
Biographic Data
| ID | 173143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Upton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Upton |
| SIGNATURE | UPTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3543-4664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
‘Energy Justice’? Pastoralism, political ecology and lower-carbon energy transitions
As global renewable energy (RE) capacity continues its unprecedented expansion, green extractivism and energy justice (EJ) have become increasingly pressing concerns, both in critical political ecology-inspired studies and where lower-carbon energy (LCE) infrastructures touch down in particular places and everyday lives. Here we focus on the justice implications of LCE transitions and the processes by which they are produced specifically in pasto…
Territorialization and desire: An assemblage thinking approach to analyzing Tiv-Jukun and farmer-herder conflicts interaction in Wukari-Logo borderlands, Nigeria
Performative politics of Redd+ experts: Siloed discourses and a missed opportunity
This paper examines the role of experts in implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiatives at the national level and explores the performative politics and power dynamics involved. Original research conducted in Malaysia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where REDD+ efforts were underway, provides the empirical basis for the study. The findings reveal tensions between the official win-win narrative of REDD+ and …
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change
Environmental governance on the street: Towards an expanded research agenda on street-level bureaucrats
Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who implement and shape environmental policies and interventions on the ground. These actors conduct the everyday work of bringing global agreements and state policies into being. In doing so, they influence how citizens experience the state and environmental governance. In this review paper, we pro…
Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions
Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate and socio‐economic benefits from the local to the global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated benefits are threatened by anthropogenic activities, including agricultural conversion, timber harvesting, peatland drainage and associated fire. Here, we identify key challenges, and provide potential solutions and future directions to meet forest and peatland conserva…
Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia
Conserving Natures? Co-producing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rangelands
Despite well-founded concerns over the proliferation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, critical geographers have begun to challenge the 'milieu of apprehension' associated with PES (Jackson and Palmer, 2014: 122). There is a growing call for more nuanced analyses of ways in which the ecosystem services paradigm and PES may, in particular circumstances, encompass and make legible diverse ways of being in/knowing nature and provide …
From Shiny Shoes to Muddy Reality: Understanding How Meso-State Actors Negotiate the Implementation Gap in Participatory Forest Management
Recent research on participatory forest management (PFM) in the global south has highlighted the existence of a widespread “implementation gap” between the ambitious intent enshrined in legislation and the often partial, disappointing rollout of devolved forest governance on the ground. Here, through an ethnographic case study of forest officers (FOs) in Kenya, we draw on a framework of critical institutionalism to examine how key meso-level acto…
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests
Communities, Culture and Commodification: Mongolia’s New Resource Politics
Mongolia's new resource politics, central to the country's geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in relation to their complex, multi-scalar socio-cultural, historical and environmental dimensions. This paper draws on the author's participatory research activities with key informants in Ulaanbaatar and amongst rural herding communities to illuminate key aspects, contexts and implications of the n…
Global land governance: From territory to flow
The new politics of pastoralism: Identity, justice and global activism
A History of Land Use in Mongolia: The Thirteenth Century to the Present
Holding the Future Together: Towards a Theorisation of the Spaces and Times of Transition
Social scientists often use the notion of 'transition' to denote diverse trajectories of change in different types of bodies: from individuals, to communities, to nation-states. Yet little work has theorised how transition might occur across, between, or beyond these bodies. The aim of this paper is to sketch out a multiple, synthetic, and generative (but by no means universal) theory of transition. Primarily drawing on the British context, we ex…
Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China
Managing Mongolia's Commons: Land Reforms, Social Contexts, and Institutional Change
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, postsocialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterized by the erosion of state control and de facto or de jure devolution of land and resource rights. Particularly since 2000, policy and practice in Mongolia have reflect…
Introduction: Focus on Mongolia
Nomadism, identity and the politics of conservation
This paper highlights the continuing importance of nomadism as an aspect of identity in contemporary Mongolia, and one which retains strategic, discursive and material resonance at diverse scales. It examines the contested representations and practices of nomadism with particular reference to conservation and to relations with land and nature. At a national level, nomadism remains a powerful, albeit romanticized, symbol of collective identity, of…
Living off the land: Nature and nomadism in Mongolia
Custom” and Contestation: Land Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Social Capital, Collective Action and Group Formation: Developmental Trajectories in Post-socialist Mongolia
Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People edited by Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst
Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia
Research Article| December 01 2005 Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia Caroline Upton Caroline Upton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 584–599. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-584 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caroline Upton; Insti…
Global land governance: From territory to flow
Social Capital, Collective Action and Group Formation: Developmental Trajectories in Post-socialist Mongolia
The new politics of pastoralism: Identity, justice and global activism
Custom” and Contestation: Land Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Holding the Future Together: Towards a Theorisation of the Spaces and Times of Transition
Social scientists often use the notion of 'transition' to denote diverse trajectories of change in different types of bodies: from individuals, to communities, to nation-states. Yet little work has theorised how transition might occur across, between, or beyond these bodies. The aim of this paper is to sketch out a multiple, synthetic, and generative (but by no means universal) theory of transition. Primarily drawing on the British context, we ex…
From Shiny Shoes to Muddy Reality: Understanding How Meso-State Actors Negotiate the Implementation Gap in Participatory Forest Management
Recent research on participatory forest management (PFM) in the global south has highlighted the existence of a widespread “implementation gap” between the ambitious intent enshrined in legislation and the often partial, disappointing rollout of devolved forest governance on the ground. Here, through an ethnographic case study of forest officers (FOs) in Kenya, we draw on a framework of critical institutionalism to examine how key meso-level acto…
Managing Mongolia's Commons: Land Reforms, Social Contexts, and Institutional Change
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, postsocialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterized by the erosion of state control and de facto or de jure devolution of land and resource rights. Particularly since 2000, policy and practice in Mongolia have reflect…
Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests
Living off the land: Nature and nomadism in Mongolia
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change
Nomadism, identity and the politics of conservation
This paper highlights the continuing importance of nomadism as an aspect of identity in contemporary Mongolia, and one which retains strategic, discursive and material resonance at diverse scales. It examines the contested representations and practices of nomadism with particular reference to conservation and to relations with land and nature. At a national level, nomadism remains a powerful, albeit romanticized, symbol of collective identity, of…
Conserving Natures? Co-producing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rangelands
Despite well-founded concerns over the proliferation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, critical geographers have begun to challenge the 'milieu of apprehension' associated with PES (Jackson and Palmer, 2014: 122). There is a growing call for more nuanced analyses of ways in which the ecosystem services paradigm and PES may, in particular circumstances, encompass and make legible diverse ways of being in/knowing nature and provide …
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia
Research Article| December 01 2005 Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia Caroline Upton Caroline Upton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 584–599. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-584 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caroline Upton; Insti…
Environmental governance on the street: Towards an expanded research agenda on street-level bureaucrats
Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who implement and shape environmental policies and interventions on the ground. These actors conduct the everyday work of bringing global agreements and state policies into being. In doing so, they influence how citizens experience the state and environmental governance. In this review paper, we pro…
Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia
Communities, Culture and Commodification: Mongolia’s New Resource Politics
Mongolia's new resource politics, central to the country's geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in relation to their complex, multi-scalar socio-cultural, historical and environmental dimensions. This paper draws on the author's participatory research activities with key informants in Ulaanbaatar and amongst rural herding communities to illuminate key aspects, contexts and implications of the n…
Performative politics of Redd+ experts: Siloed discourses and a missed opportunity
This paper examines the role of experts in implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiatives at the national level and explores the performative politics and power dynamics involved. Original research conducted in Malaysia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where REDD+ efforts were underway, provides the empirical basis for the study. The findings reveal tensions between the official win-win narrative of REDD+ and …
Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia
Research Article| December 01 2005 Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia Caroline Upton Caroline Upton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 584–599. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-584 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Caroline Upton; Insti…
Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People edited by Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst
Social Capital, Collective Action and Group Formation: Developmental Trajectories in Post-socialist Mongolia
Custom” and Contestation: Land Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Introduction: Focus on Mongolia
Nomadism, identity and the politics of conservation
This paper highlights the continuing importance of nomadism as an aspect of identity in contemporary Mongolia, and one which retains strategic, discursive and material resonance at diverse scales. It examines the contested representations and practices of nomadism with particular reference to conservation and to relations with land and nature. At a national level, nomadism remains a powerful, albeit romanticized, symbol of collective identity, of…
Living off the land: Nature and nomadism in Mongolia
Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China
Managing Mongolia's Commons: Land Reforms, Social Contexts, and Institutional Change
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, postsocialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterized by the erosion of state control and de facto or de jure devolution of land and resource rights. Particularly since 2000, policy and practice in Mongolia have reflect…
Holding the Future Together: Towards a Theorisation of the Spaces and Times of Transition
Social scientists often use the notion of 'transition' to denote diverse trajectories of change in different types of bodies: from individuals, to communities, to nation-states. Yet little work has theorised how transition might occur across, between, or beyond these bodies. The aim of this paper is to sketch out a multiple, synthetic, and generative (but by no means universal) theory of transition. Primarily drawing on the British context, we ex…
Global land governance: From territory to flow
The new politics of pastoralism: Identity, justice and global activism
A History of Land Use in Mongolia: The Thirteenth Century to the Present
Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests
Communities, Culture and Commodification: Mongolia’s New Resource Politics
Mongolia's new resource politics, central to the country's geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in relation to their complex, multi-scalar socio-cultural, historical and environmental dimensions. This paper draws on the author's participatory research activities with key informants in Ulaanbaatar and amongst rural herding communities to illuminate key aspects, contexts and implications of the n…
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
From Shiny Shoes to Muddy Reality: Understanding How Meso-State Actors Negotiate the Implementation Gap in Participatory Forest Management
Recent research on participatory forest management (PFM) in the global south has highlighted the existence of a widespread “implementation gap” between the ambitious intent enshrined in legislation and the often partial, disappointing rollout of devolved forest governance on the ground. Here, through an ethnographic case study of forest officers (FOs) in Kenya, we draw on a framework of critical institutionalism to examine how key meso-level acto…
Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions
Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate and socio‐economic benefits from the local to the global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated benefits are threatened by anthropogenic activities, including agricultural conversion, timber harvesting, peatland drainage and associated fire. Here, we identify key challenges, and provide potential solutions and future directions to meet forest and peatland conserva…
Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia
Conserving Natures? Co-producing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rangelands
Despite well-founded concerns over the proliferation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, critical geographers have begun to challenge the 'milieu of apprehension' associated with PES (Jackson and Palmer, 2014: 122). There is a growing call for more nuanced analyses of ways in which the ecosystem services paradigm and PES may, in particular circumstances, encompass and make legible diverse ways of being in/knowing nature and provide …
Environmental governance on the street: Towards an expanded research agenda on street-level bureaucrats
Research on environmental governance would benefit from greater attention to the practices, agency and subjectivities of the frontline civil servants who implement and shape environmental policies and interventions on the ground. These actors conduct the everyday work of bringing global agreements and state policies into being. In doing so, they influence how citizens experience the state and environmental governance. In this review paper, we pro…
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change
Performative politics of Redd+ experts: Siloed discourses and a missed opportunity
This paper examines the role of experts in implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiatives at the national level and explores the performative politics and power dynamics involved. Original research conducted in Malaysia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where REDD+ efforts were underway, provides the empirical basis for the study. The findings reveal tensions between the official win-win narrative of REDD+ and …
‘Energy Justice’? Pastoralism, political ecology and lower-carbon energy transitions
As global renewable energy (RE) capacity continues its unprecedented expansion, green extractivism and energy justice (EJ) have become increasingly pressing concerns, both in critical political ecology-inspired studies and where lower-carbon energy (LCE) infrastructures touch down in particular places and everyday lives. Here we focus on the justice implications of LCE transitions and the processes by which they are produced specifically in pasto…
Territorialization and desire: An assemblage thinking approach to analyzing Tiv-Jukun and farmer-herder conflicts interaction in Wukari-Logo borderlands, Nigeria
Geography (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (7 works)