Brock Bersaglio
Biographic Data
| ID | 209930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brock Bersaglio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brock |
| FAMILY NAME | Bersaglio |
| SIGNATURE | BERSAGLIO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8506-8025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The making of digital rangelands: Navigating the implications of rangeland datafication and smartification in Kenya
A shift is occurring in how the global environmental community understands and talks about rangelands. Long seen as economically unproductive and environmentally degraded environments, rangelands are now being recast as sources of untapped ecological benefit and climate optimism. This is due to growing awareness of the significant contributions rangelands make to biological diversity, carbon sequestration, and nature-based economies worldwide. In…
From livestock keepers to carbon catchers? Carbon projects and agrarian transformation in East Africa’s pastoral rangelands
Carbon markets are rapidly expanding, driven by global demand for carbon credits. Existing agrarian studies research has examined how strategies for responding to climate change, including carbon offsetting projects, may usher in a new phase of agrarian transition. However, this research has primarily focused on forest and agriculture offsetting projects. In this article, we examine the relationship between carbon projects and agrarian change in …
Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation: A case study of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative in northern Kenya
The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, yet mounting evidence indicates that current methods for preventing biodiversity loss are insufficient and often intensify unjust conditions for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Alternative models have been proposed to deal with this crisis, including strict, community, neoliberal and convivial conservation. Biocultural conservation is now re‐emerging as …
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…
Settler Ecologies and the Future of Biodiversity: Insights from Laikipia, Kenya
This article examines the relationship between settler colonialism and biodiversity. Focusing on Laikipia, Kenya, we argue that the types of plant and animal species present in the landscape have been shaped by historical and present power relations and often support settler colonial projects. We introduce five modes of violent ecological transformation that have been used to prolong and advance structures of settler colonialism in Laikipia: elim…
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention
This article critically reviews geographical scholarship to develop five categories for conceptualising the plurality of zoonotic disease situations configured through infrastructure. These are infrastructures that (1) unmoor zoonoses, (2) mobilise zoonoses, (3) immobilise zoonoses, (4) leak zoonoses, and (5) surveil zoonoses. Our analysis of these categories complicates notions that infrastructure either spreads or stops zoonoses and reveals the…
Grounding drones in political ecology: Understanding the complexities and power relations of drone use in conservation
Rapidly evolving drone technologies are taking the conservation sector by storm. Although the technical and applied conservation literature tends to frame drones as autonomous, neutral technologies, we argue that neither drones nor their implications can be adequately understood unless they are grounded, conceptually and methodologically, in the context of broader societal structures that shape how drones and the data they produce are used. This …
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…
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 management takes to the skies: How new technologies are reconfiguring spatialities of power in desert locust management
Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes
This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences with species loss in conservation landscapes. Bringing geographical concepts, such as absence-presence, into conversation with recent literature on lively commodities, we describe how animals at the threshold of life and death ar…
How development corridors interact with the Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa
Investment in infrastructure and industry has reached record levels across the global South, leading to claims that the world is at the dawn of a fourth industrial revolution. This claim is reflected in the central position that infrastructure and industry occupy in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure has been described as fundamental to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable D…
On the Coloniality of “New” Mega‐Infrastructure Projects in East Africa
This article responds to a preference for short‐term history in research on the infrastructure turn by engaging with the longue durée of East Africa’s latest infrastructure scramble. It traces the history of LAPSSET in Kenya and the Central Corridor in Tanzania, revealing the coloniality of new and improved transport infrastructure along both corridors. This exercise demonstrates how the spatial visions and territorial plans of colonial administr…
Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat
We are currently witnessing a global trend of intensifying and deepening relationships between extractive companies and biodiversity conservation organisations that warrants closer scrutiny. Although existing literature has established that these two sectors often share the same space and rely on similar logics, it is increasingly common to find biodiversity conservation being carried out through partnerships between extractive and conservation a…
Green Grab by Bricolage – The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya
Across Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands, vast rangelands are being transformed into community conservancies – common property arrangements managed for transhumance pastoralism and biodiversity conservation. The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) has spearheaded this transformation, promoting community conservancies as a model that conserves biodiversity while developing resilience, improving livelihoods, and promoting security among diverse pastoral…
Artisanal mining in Southern Tanzania: Preliminary reflections on a ‘Green squeeze’
The nature of spectacle: On images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe
The nature of spectacle: on images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 39(3), pp. 460–461
Furthering post-human political ecologies
Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya
Youth under construction: The United Nations’ representations of youth in the global conversation on the post-2015 development agenda
As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, youth have been ushered into the United Nation's decision-making processes for global development in the post-2015 era with a sense of uncontested urgency. Through the “global conversation” – a large scale participatory process involving consultations with youth and other groups – participation has featured prominently in the making of the post-2015 global development agenda. U…
Enclave oil development and the rearticulation of citizenship in Turkana, Kenya: Exploring ‘crude citizenship’
Contextualising emergency responses to famine among Turkana pastoralists in Kenya
The pastoralism of the Turkana has persisted in the challenging environment of northwestern Kenya for some 200 years. Yet many pastoralists find that they increasingly rely on food relief during droughts and famines. This article contextualises emergency responses to famine among Turkana pastoralists by considering their encounters with colonialism, development, and humanitarian interventions. It uses key informant interviews, participant observa…
Farmers at the Edge: Property Formalisation and Urban Agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Indigenous voices and the making of the post-2015 development agenda: The recurring tyranny of participation
This paper explores recent efforts to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples in the making of the post-2015 development agenda. It is based on an examination of the UN’s global consultation process, conducted between July 2012 and July 2013. Using discursive analysis of consultation findings and reports, we argue that the UN’s approach to participatory development represents a pretence rather than an actual shift in power from development…
On the Coloniality of “New” Mega‐Infrastructure Projects in East Africa
This article responds to a preference for short‐term history in research on the infrastructure turn by engaging with the longue durée of East Africa’s latest infrastructure scramble. It traces the history of LAPSSET in Kenya and the Central Corridor in Tanzania, revealing the coloniality of new and improved transport infrastructure along both corridors. This exercise demonstrates how the spatial visions and territorial plans of colonial administr…
Furthering post-human political ecologies
Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat
We are currently witnessing a global trend of intensifying and deepening relationships between extractive companies and biodiversity conservation organisations that warrants closer scrutiny. Although existing literature has established that these two sectors often share the same space and rely on similar logics, it is increasingly common to find biodiversity conservation being carried out through partnerships between extractive and conservation a…
Enclave oil development and the rearticulation of citizenship in Turkana, Kenya: Exploring ‘crude citizenship’
Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes
This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences with species loss in conservation landscapes. Bringing geographical concepts, such as absence-presence, into conversation with recent literature on lively commodities, we describe how animals at the threshold of life and death ar…
Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya
Indigenous voices and the making of the post-2015 development agenda: The recurring tyranny of participation
This paper explores recent efforts to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples in the making of the post-2015 development agenda. It is based on an examination of the UN’s global consultation process, conducted between July 2012 and July 2013. Using discursive analysis of consultation findings and reports, we argue that the UN’s approach to participatory development represents a pretence rather than an actual shift in power from development…
Disaster management takes to the skies: How new technologies are reconfiguring spatialities of power in desert locust management
Grounding drones in political ecology: Understanding the complexities and power relations of drone use in conservation
Rapidly evolving drone technologies are taking the conservation sector by storm. Although the technical and applied conservation literature tends to frame drones as autonomous, neutral technologies, we argue that neither drones nor their implications can be adequately understood unless they are grounded, conceptually and methodologically, in the context of broader societal structures that shape how drones and the data they produce are used. This …
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention
This article critically reviews geographical scholarship to develop five categories for conceptualising the plurality of zoonotic disease situations configured through infrastructure. These are infrastructures that (1) unmoor zoonoses, (2) mobilise zoonoses, (3) immobilise zoonoses, (4) leak zoonoses, and (5) surveil zoonoses. Our analysis of these categories complicates notions that infrastructure either spreads or stops zoonoses and reveals the…
Youth under construction: The United Nations’ representations of youth in the global conversation on the post-2015 development agenda
As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, youth have been ushered into the United Nation's decision-making processes for global development in the post-2015 era with a sense of uncontested urgency. Through the “global conversation” – a large scale participatory process involving consultations with youth and other groups – participation has featured prominently in the making of the post-2015 global development agenda. U…
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…
How development corridors interact with the Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa
Investment in infrastructure and industry has reached record levels across the global South, leading to claims that the world is at the dawn of a fourth industrial revolution. This claim is reflected in the central position that infrastructure and industry occupy in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure has been described as fundamental to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable D…
Artisanal mining in Southern Tanzania: Preliminary reflections on a ‘Green squeeze’
The nature of spectacle: On images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe
The nature of spectacle: on images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 39(3), pp. 460–461
Farmers at the Edge: Property Formalisation and Urban Agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Indigenous voices and the making of the post-2015 development agenda: The recurring tyranny of participation
This paper explores recent efforts to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples in the making of the post-2015 development agenda. It is based on an examination of the UN’s global consultation process, conducted between July 2012 and July 2013. Using discursive analysis of consultation findings and reports, we argue that the UN’s approach to participatory development represents a pretence rather than an actual shift in power from development…
Pastoralism in the time of oil: Youth perspectives on the oil industry and the future of pastoralism in Turkana, Kenya
Youth under construction: The United Nations’ representations of youth in the global conversation on the post-2015 development agenda
As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, youth have been ushered into the United Nation's decision-making processes for global development in the post-2015 era with a sense of uncontested urgency. Through the “global conversation” – a large scale participatory process involving consultations with youth and other groups – participation has featured prominently in the making of the post-2015 global development agenda. U…
Enclave oil development and the rearticulation of citizenship in Turkana, Kenya: Exploring ‘crude citizenship’
Contextualising emergency responses to famine among Turkana pastoralists in Kenya
The pastoralism of the Turkana has persisted in the challenging environment of northwestern Kenya for some 200 years. Yet many pastoralists find that they increasingly rely on food relief during droughts and famines. This article contextualises emergency responses to famine among Turkana pastoralists by considering their encounters with colonialism, development, and humanitarian interventions. It uses key informant interviews, participant observa…
Green Grab by Bricolage – The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya
Across Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands, vast rangelands are being transformed into community conservancies – common property arrangements managed for transhumance pastoralism and biodiversity conservation. The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) has spearheaded this transformation, promoting community conservancies as a model that conserves biodiversity while developing resilience, improving livelihoods, and promoting security among diverse pastoral…
Artisanal mining in Southern Tanzania: Preliminary reflections on a ‘Green squeeze’
The nature of spectacle: On images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe
The nature of spectacle: on images, money, and conserving capitalism, by Jim Igoe." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 39(3), pp. 460–461
Furthering post-human political ecologies
Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat
We are currently witnessing a global trend of intensifying and deepening relationships between extractive companies and biodiversity conservation organisations that warrants closer scrutiny. Although existing literature has established that these two sectors often share the same space and rely on similar logics, it is increasingly common to find biodiversity conservation being carried out through partnerships between extractive and conservation a…
How development corridors interact with the Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa
Investment in infrastructure and industry has reached record levels across the global South, leading to claims that the world is at the dawn of a fourth industrial revolution. This claim is reflected in the central position that infrastructure and industry occupy in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure has been described as fundamental to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable D…
On the Coloniality of “New” Mega‐Infrastructure Projects in East Africa
This article responds to a preference for short‐term history in research on the infrastructure turn by engaging with the longue durée of East Africa’s latest infrastructure scramble. It traces the history of LAPSSET in Kenya and the Central Corridor in Tanzania, revealing the coloniality of new and improved transport infrastructure along both corridors. This exercise demonstrates how the spatial visions and territorial plans of colonial administr…
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 management takes to the skies: How new technologies are reconfiguring spatialities of power in desert locust management
Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes
This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences with species loss in conservation landscapes. Bringing geographical concepts, such as absence-presence, into conversation with recent literature on lively commodities, we describe how animals at the threshold of life and death ar…
Grounding drones in political ecology: Understanding the complexities and power relations of drone use in conservation
Rapidly evolving drone technologies are taking the conservation sector by storm. Although the technical and applied conservation literature tends to frame drones as autonomous, neutral technologies, we argue that neither drones nor their implications can be adequately understood unless they are grounded, conceptually and methodologically, in the context of broader societal structures that shape how drones and the data they produce are used. This …
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…
Settler Ecologies and the Future of Biodiversity: Insights from Laikipia, Kenya
This article examines the relationship between settler colonialism and biodiversity. Focusing on Laikipia, Kenya, we argue that the types of plant and animal species present in the landscape have been shaped by historical and present power relations and often support settler colonial projects. We introduce five modes of violent ecological transformation that have been used to prolong and advance structures of settler colonialism in Laikipia: elim…
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention
This article critically reviews geographical scholarship to develop five categories for conceptualising the plurality of zoonotic disease situations configured through infrastructure. These are infrastructures that (1) unmoor zoonoses, (2) mobilise zoonoses, (3) immobilise zoonoses, (4) leak zoonoses, and (5) surveil zoonoses. Our analysis of these categories complicates notions that infrastructure either spreads or stops zoonoses and reveals the…
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…
The making of digital rangelands: Navigating the implications of rangeland datafication and smartification in Kenya
A shift is occurring in how the global environmental community understands and talks about rangelands. Long seen as economically unproductive and environmentally degraded environments, rangelands are now being recast as sources of untapped ecological benefit and climate optimism. This is due to growing awareness of the significant contributions rangelands make to biological diversity, carbon sequestration, and nature-based economies worldwide. In…
From livestock keepers to carbon catchers? Carbon projects and agrarian transformation in East Africa’s pastoral rangelands
Carbon markets are rapidly expanding, driven by global demand for carbon credits. Existing agrarian studies research has examined how strategies for responding to climate change, including carbon offsetting projects, may usher in a new phase of agrarian transition. However, this research has primarily focused on forest and agriculture offsetting projects. In this article, we examine the relationship between carbon projects and agrarian change in …
Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation: A case study of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative in northern Kenya
The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, yet mounting evidence indicates that current methods for preventing biodiversity loss are insufficient and often intensify unjust conditions for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Alternative models have been proposed to deal with this crisis, including strict, community, neoliberal and convivial conservation. Biocultural conservation is now re‐emerging as …
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