Francis Massé
Biographic Data
| ID | 209929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Massé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Massé |
| SIGNATURE | MASSÉ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7028-0616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia
Game meat contributes to human nutrition, food security and sociocultural practices around the world. Game meat also comes with risks, including overharvesting and zoonotic and food‐borne disease. These may be pronounced where game meat travels along complex value chains from rural to urban areas. Formalising and improving regulation of the game meat value chain is one approach to mitigating risks. Focussing on the game meat value chain in Zambia…
Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure
Estimates that 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin, combined with recent high-profile zoonotic outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, have the world scrambling to understand, predict, and prevent zoonotic disease risks and outbreaks. Scientists and public health officials draw attention to anthropogenic processes understood to contribute to these risks, such as the wildlife trade, climate change, deforestation, and urbanizat…
Demilitarizing Conservation
Wild animal attacks and other occupational risks perceived by Indigenous hunters and fishers in the Yangambi landscape
Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the Covid-19 pandemic
Measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and economic shocks caused by the pandemic have affected food networks globally, including wild meat trade networks that support the livelihoods and food security of millions of people around the world. In this article, we examine how COVID-related shocks have affected the vulnerability and coping strategies of different actors along wild meat trade networks. Informed by 1,876 questionnaires carr…
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most acute global conservation challenges. This paper examines what is driving young men to enter the rhino horn trade while advancing theory on environmental conflict. We show how the illicit rhino horn economy is a telling instance of environmental conflict-largely between ground-level hunters and increasingly militarized state conservation forces-that emerges from a context of radical inequality. …
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains
The rise of zoonotic disease-related public health crises has sparked calls for policy action, including calls to close wildlife markets. Yet, these calls often reflect limited understanding of where, precisely, exposure to risk occurs along wildlife and wild meat trade chains. They also threaten to negatively impact food security and livelihoods. From a public health perspective, it is important to understand the practices that shape food safety…
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene
We live in a new normal of increasing, crosscutting, and shifting patterns of disasters fueled by large-scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the case that disasters, and responses to disasters, must be understood within the context of the global political-economic system of capitalism. We situate disasters, their making, and their politics within the Capitalocene and argue t…
Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state
The growth of wildlife and environmental crime has catalysed efforts to strengthen state policing to better exert control over activities, flows, and people that threaten states’ desired socio-ecological orders. The expanded role of policing in and over human-environment relations provokes conceptual and empirical imperatives to better centre policing in political ecology and political geography scholarship on state-environment relations. This ar…
Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching
Ranger‐based monitoring has enormous potential to inform conservation globally, with hundreds of thousands of rangers patrolling extensive areas and recording observations of illegal activities and biodiversity. Much quantitative research has demonstrated the pitfalls and potential of data collection by rangers, but little work has considered its human dimensions. Yet poor engagement with, and ownership of, monitoring by those undertaking it may …
A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa
From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation
The recent antiracist movement in the United States and beyond inspired the Sierra Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious global conservation organizations, to distance itself from its founder John Muir’s racist views. In a statement issued in July, 2020, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, Michael Brune, said, “As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past a…
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit, and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and environmental harms. Despite growing documentation of ISNs and their impacts, efforts to understand and disrupt ISNs remain insufficient due to the persistent lack of knowledge connecting a given ISN’s modus operandi and its patterns of activity in space and tim…
The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance
In this article we develop a geopolitical ecology of foreign conservation assistance. While the literature on the political nature of foreign assistance writ large highlights how geopolitical agendas are pursued through foreign assistance, we focus on how this geopolitics of foreign assistance articulates with biodiversity conservation concerns. We draw attention to how conservation donor agencies negotiate shifting geopolitical contexts in which…
Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference
The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event ethnography, we examine the Conference as a site where key actors defined the problem of IWT as one of serious crime that needs to be addressed as such. We ask (a) how was IWT framed as serious crime, (b) how was this framing mobilized to promote particular policy responses,…
Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas
This article examines how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space, punishing of transgressors, and protecting of nonhuman life. Drawing on ethnographic research with antipoaching personnel in Mozambique, I examine how rangers translate these legal and normative manifestations of conservation law enforcement on the ground and in the…
Why we must question the militarisation of conservation
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
Anti-poaching’s politics of (in)visibility: Representing nature and conservation amidst a poaching crisis
Topographies of security and the multiple spatialities of (conservation) power: Verticality, surveillance, and space-time compression in the bush
Linking green militarization and critical military studies
The precipitous increase in commercial poaching across parts of Africa has been met by progressively more militarized responses. Amounting to green militarization, we now see national armies, increasingly paramilitarized rangers, military tactics, and even sophisticated military technology used to address the problem. Scholarly investigations on the topic have largely been approached from a political ecology perspective and hence have not made co…
The political ecology of human-wildlife conflict: Producing wilderness, insecurity, and displacement in the Limpopo National Park
Like conservation-induced displacement, human-wildlife conflict (HWC) has potentially negative implications for communities in and around protected areas. While the ways in which displacement emerges from the creation of 'wilderness' conservation landscapes are well documented, how the production of 'wilderness' articulates with intensifications in HWC remains under examined both empirically and conceptually. Using a political-ecological approach…
Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native PeoplesMark DowieMITISBN: 9780262012614, pp. 376, 2009
Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers
From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation
The recent antiracist movement in the United States and beyond inspired the Sierra Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious global conservation organizations, to distance itself from its founder John Muir’s racist views. In a statement issued in July, 2020, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, Michael Brune, said, “As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past a…
Linking green militarization and critical military studies
The precipitous increase in commercial poaching across parts of Africa has been met by progressively more militarized responses. Amounting to green militarization, we now see national armies, increasingly paramilitarized rangers, military tactics, and even sophisticated military technology used to address the problem. Scholarly investigations on the topic have largely been approached from a political ecology perspective and hence have not made co…
Topographies of security and the multiple spatialities of (conservation) power: Verticality, surveillance, and space-time compression in the bush
Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas
This article examines how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space, punishing of transgressors, and protecting of nonhuman life. Drawing on ethnographic research with antipoaching personnel in Mozambique, I examine how rangers translate these legal and normative manifestations of conservation law enforcement on the ground and in the…
Anti-poaching’s politics of (in)visibility: Representing nature and conservation amidst a poaching crisis
The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance
In this article we develop a geopolitical ecology of foreign conservation assistance. While the literature on the political nature of foreign assistance writ large highlights how geopolitical agendas are pursued through foreign assistance, we focus on how this geopolitics of foreign assistance articulates with biodiversity conservation concerns. We draw attention to how conservation donor agencies negotiate shifting geopolitical contexts in which…
The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most acute global conservation challenges. This paper examines what is driving young men to enter the rhino horn trade while advancing theory on environmental conflict. We show how the illicit rhino horn economy is a telling instance of environmental conflict-largely between ground-level hunters and increasingly militarized state conservation forces-that emerges from a context of radical inequality. …
Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state
The growth of wildlife and environmental crime has catalysed efforts to strengthen state policing to better exert control over activities, flows, and people that threaten states’ desired socio-ecological orders. The expanded role of policing in and over human-environment relations provokes conceptual and empirical imperatives to better centre policing in political ecology and political geography scholarship on state-environment relations. This ar…
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit, and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and environmental harms. Despite growing documentation of ISNs and their impacts, efforts to understand and disrupt ISNs remain insufficient due to the persistent lack of knowledge connecting a given ISN’s modus operandi and its patterns of activity in space and tim…
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference
The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event ethnography, we examine the Conference as a site where key actors defined the problem of IWT as one of serious crime that needs to be addressed as such. We ask (a) how was IWT framed as serious crime, (b) how was this framing mobilized to promote particular policy responses,…
Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the Covid-19 pandemic
Measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and economic shocks caused by the pandemic have affected food networks globally, including wild meat trade networks that support the livelihoods and food security of millions of people around the world. In this article, we examine how COVID-related shocks have affected the vulnerability and coping strategies of different actors along wild meat trade networks. Informed by 1,876 questionnaires carr…
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene
We live in a new normal of increasing, crosscutting, and shifting patterns of disasters fueled by large-scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the case that disasters, and responses to disasters, must be understood within the context of the global political-economic system of capitalism. We situate disasters, their making, and their politics within the Capitalocene and argue t…
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native PeoplesMark DowieMITISBN: 9780262012614, pp. 376, 2009
Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers
The political ecology of human-wildlife conflict: Producing wilderness, insecurity, and displacement in the Limpopo National Park
Like conservation-induced displacement, human-wildlife conflict (HWC) has potentially negative implications for communities in and around protected areas. While the ways in which displacement emerges from the creation of 'wilderness' conservation landscapes are well documented, how the production of 'wilderness' articulates with intensifications in HWC remains under examined both empirically and conceptually. Using a political-ecological approach…
Anti-poaching’s politics of (in)visibility: Representing nature and conservation amidst a poaching crisis
Topographies of security and the multiple spatialities of (conservation) power: Verticality, surveillance, and space-time compression in the bush
Linking green militarization and critical military studies
The precipitous increase in commercial poaching across parts of Africa has been met by progressively more militarized responses. Amounting to green militarization, we now see national armies, increasingly paramilitarized rangers, military tactics, and even sophisticated military technology used to address the problem. Scholarly investigations on the topic have largely been approached from a political ecology perspective and hence have not made co…
Why we must question the militarisation of conservation
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance
In this article we develop a geopolitical ecology of foreign conservation assistance. While the literature on the political nature of foreign assistance writ large highlights how geopolitical agendas are pursued through foreign assistance, we focus on how this geopolitics of foreign assistance articulates with biodiversity conservation concerns. We draw attention to how conservation donor agencies negotiate shifting geopolitical contexts in which…
Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference
The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event ethnography, we examine the Conference as a site where key actors defined the problem of IWT as one of serious crime that needs to be addressed as such. We ask (a) how was IWT framed as serious crime, (b) how was this framing mobilized to promote particular policy responses,…
Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas
This article examines how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space, punishing of transgressors, and protecting of nonhuman life. Drawing on ethnographic research with antipoaching personnel in Mozambique, I examine how rangers translate these legal and normative manifestations of conservation law enforcement on the ground and in the…
Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching
Ranger‐based monitoring has enormous potential to inform conservation globally, with hundreds of thousands of rangers patrolling extensive areas and recording observations of illegal activities and biodiversity. Much quantitative research has demonstrated the pitfalls and potential of data collection by rangers, but little work has considered its human dimensions. Yet poor engagement with, and ownership of, monitoring by those undertaking it may …
A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa
From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation
The recent antiracist movement in the United States and beyond inspired the Sierra Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious global conservation organizations, to distance itself from its founder John Muir’s racist views. In a statement issued in July, 2020, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, Michael Brune, said, “As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past a…
Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit, and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and environmental harms. Despite growing documentation of ISNs and their impacts, efforts to understand and disrupt ISNs remain insufficient due to the persistent lack of knowledge connecting a given ISN’s modus operandi and its patterns of activity in space and tim…
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains
The rise of zoonotic disease-related public health crises has sparked calls for policy action, including calls to close wildlife markets. Yet, these calls often reflect limited understanding of where, precisely, exposure to risk occurs along wildlife and wild meat trade chains. They also threaten to negatively impact food security and livelihoods. From a public health perspective, it is important to understand the practices that shape food safety…
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene
We live in a new normal of increasing, crosscutting, and shifting patterns of disasters fueled by large-scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the case that disasters, and responses to disasters, must be understood within the context of the global political-economic system of capitalism. We situate disasters, their making, and their politics within the Capitalocene and argue t…
Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state
The growth of wildlife and environmental crime has catalysed efforts to strengthen state policing to better exert control over activities, flows, and people that threaten states’ desired socio-ecological orders. The expanded role of policing in and over human-environment relations provokes conceptual and empirical imperatives to better centre policing in political ecology and political geography scholarship on state-environment relations. This ar…
Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the Covid-19 pandemic
Measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and economic shocks caused by the pandemic have affected food networks globally, including wild meat trade networks that support the livelihoods and food security of millions of people around the world. In this article, we examine how COVID-related shocks have affected the vulnerability and coping strategies of different actors along wild meat trade networks. Informed by 1,876 questionnaires carr…
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most acute global conservation challenges. This paper examines what is driving young men to enter the rhino horn trade while advancing theory on environmental conflict. We show how the illicit rhino horn economy is a telling instance of environmental conflict-largely between ground-level hunters and increasingly militarized state conservation forces-that emerges from a context of radical inequality. …
Wild animal attacks and other occupational risks perceived by Indigenous hunters and fishers in the Yangambi landscape
How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia
Game meat contributes to human nutrition, food security and sociocultural practices around the world. Game meat also comes with risks, including overharvesting and zoonotic and food‐borne disease. These may be pronounced where game meat travels along complex value chains from rural to urban areas. Formalising and improving regulation of the game meat value chain is one approach to mitigating risks. Focussing on the game meat value chain in Zambia…
Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure
Estimates that 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin, combined with recent high-profile zoonotic outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, have the world scrambling to understand, predict, and prevent zoonotic disease risks and outbreaks. Scientists and public health officials draw attention to anthropogenic processes understood to contribute to these risks, such as the wildlife trade, climate change, deforestation, and urbanizat…
Demilitarizing Conservation
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