Joseph Margulies
Biographic Data
| ID | 650896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Margulies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Margulies |
| SIGNATURE | MARGULIES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2029-4424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US-Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California
This article presents a sonic, more-than-human geography of the US–Mexico borderlands. I draw on creative practice to make an empirical contribution to critical border studies. Listening to border architecture offers a way to analyse the politics of border landscapes as they reverberate with sound. Sonic methods assert the living and nonliving qualities of borderscapes and additional valences of violence enacted through border landscapes and atmo…
Hostile Terrain 94, Installation, and Meditative Explorations of the US-Mexico Borderlands
In the fall semester of 2021, we organized and curated the participatory art project Hostile Terrain ‘94 at the University of Alabama. The project, conceived and developed by the Undocumented Migration Project, consists of ∼3,200 toe-tags carrying information of deceased migrants found on the US side of the US-Mexico border in the Sonoran Desert. They produce a map of tremendous death. The project allowed participating institutions to make their …
Seeing animals like a state? Divergent forester subjectivities and the managing of human-wildlife conflicts in South India
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
A Political Ecology of Desire
How does attention to exertion and absence of care illuminate possibilities for avoiding extinction amid global biodiversity declines? This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire. It does so to diagnose the threat of extinction anxieties and consider their material and political consequences for impedances to caring for nonhuman life and their f…
Is Cites Protecting Wildlife: Assessing Implementation and Compliance
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…
Learning with the seed bomb: On a Classroom Encounter With Abolition Ecology
Throughout a semester-long introduction to the field of political ecology, our class turned to Paul Robbins' notion of the "hatchet" and the "seed" to categorize the goals of the field. Exploring this metaphor, we felt compelled to consider its potential within an expanded view of how racial capitalism structures socio-environmental relations. The hatchet points to political ecology's commitment to dismantling systems of oppression embedded in ra…
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 drivers of demand, researching consumption of illegal wildlife products: A reply to Bergin et al
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,…
The imaginary ‘Asian Super Consumer: A critique of demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade
There is increasing focus on altering consumer behavior within the conservation sector working to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT). In this review we highlight how demand reduction campaigns can build on and reproduce problematic stereotypes that create and perpetuate a figure we characterize as the “Asian Super Consumer.” While there are numerous studies critiquing disturbing and racist narratives of particular actors engaged in the supply-si…
Making the 'man-eater: Tiger conservation as necropolitics
In this article I analyze the practice and politics of classifying a tiger as a ‘man-eater’ in South India to explore what doing so reveals more broadly about the relations between animal life and the kinds of human life marked as expendable by the state. I draw on Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics in order to analyze how the Indian State attempts to manage human-wildlife relations in a contested plantation landscape of high priority for w…
On coming into animal presence with photovoice
Methodological advancement within more-than-human geography lags behind its theorization. As an intervention into the promise of visual methods for enlivening more-than-human geographies, I describe working with a photographic practice for exploring geographies of encounter between humans, the animals they care for, and wild animals. This is presented through discussing a collaborative project employing photovoice to explore wildlife conservation…
Furthering post-human political ecologies
The production of human-wildlife conflict: A political animal geography of encounter
The Conservation Ideological State Apparatus
This article considers Louis Althusser's theory of the ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. I reflect on a series of events in which a state forest department in South India attempted to recast violent conflicts between themselves and local communities over access to natural resources and a protected area as a debate over human-wildlife conflicts.…
What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 And the Making of National Identity
Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape—especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam—American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks…
Ambiguous Geographies: Connecting Case Study Knowledge with Global Change Science
Case studies have long been a gold standard for investigating causal mechanisms in human–environment interactions. Yet it remains a challenge to generalize across case studies to produce knowledge at broader regional and global scales even as the effort to do so, mostly using metastudy methods, has accelerated. One major obstacle is that the geographic context of case study knowledge is often presented in a vague and incomplete form, making it di…
War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Journal Article War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority Get access War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority by Mariah Zeisberg. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2013. 288 pp. $29.95. Joseph Margulies Joseph Margulies Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 2015, Pages 155–156, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq…
Moral Legitimacy, Creedal Narratives, and National Identity
Scholars sometimes misunderstand the role that law plays in achieving social change. Law in the United States represents the codification of normative ideologies, or creedal narratives. New ideologies can take hold in society only as the result of deep and wide structural changes that cause the gradual erosion of others. Lawmakers-whether judicial or political-eventually give these new ideologies legitimacy. Contrary to Bruce Ackerman's contentio…
Long Wars and the Constitution
Journal Article Long Wars and the Constitution Get access Long Wars and the Constitution by Stephen M. Griffin. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2013. 376 pp. $39.95. Joseph Margulies Joseph Margulies Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 3, Fall 2014, Pages 527–528, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12236 Published: 11 September 2014
In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice by Susan F. Hirsch
The production of human-wildlife conflict: A political animal geography of encounter
Making the 'man-eater: Tiger conservation as necropolitics
In this article I analyze the practice and politics of classifying a tiger as a ‘man-eater’ in South India to explore what doing so reveals more broadly about the relations between animal life and the kinds of human life marked as expendable by the state. I draw on Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics in order to analyze how the Indian State attempts to manage human-wildlife relations in a contested plantation landscape of high priority for w…
Furthering post-human political ecologies
The imaginary ‘Asian Super Consumer: A critique of demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade
There is increasing focus on altering consumer behavior within the conservation sector working to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT). In this review we highlight how demand reduction campaigns can build on and reproduce problematic stereotypes that create and perpetuate a figure we characterize as the “Asian Super Consumer.” While there are numerous studies critiquing disturbing and racist narratives of particular actors engaged in the supply-si…
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…
The Conservation Ideological State Apparatus
This article considers Louis Althusser's theory of the ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. I reflect on a series of events in which a state forest department in South India attempted to recast violent conflicts between themselves and local communities over access to natural resources and a protected area as a debate over human-wildlife conflicts.…
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…
On coming into animal presence with photovoice
Methodological advancement within more-than-human geography lags behind its theorization. As an intervention into the promise of visual methods for enlivening more-than-human geographies, I describe working with a photographic practice for exploring geographies of encounter between humans, the animals they care for, and wild animals. This is presented through discussing a collaborative project employing photovoice to explore wildlife conservation…
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US-Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California
This article presents a sonic, more-than-human geography of the US–Mexico borderlands. I draw on creative practice to make an empirical contribution to critical border studies. Listening to border architecture offers a way to analyse the politics of border landscapes as they reverberate with sound. Sonic methods assert the living and nonliving qualities of borderscapes and additional valences of violence enacted through border landscapes and atmo…
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…
Ambiguous Geographies: Connecting Case Study Knowledge with Global Change Science
Case studies have long been a gold standard for investigating causal mechanisms in human–environment interactions. Yet it remains a challenge to generalize across case studies to produce knowledge at broader regional and global scales even as the effort to do so, mostly using metastudy methods, has accelerated. One major obstacle is that the geographic context of case study knowledge is often presented in a vague and incomplete form, making it di…
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
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,…
Learning with the seed bomb: On a Classroom Encounter With Abolition Ecology
Throughout a semester-long introduction to the field of political ecology, our class turned to Paul Robbins' notion of the "hatchet" and the "seed" to categorize the goals of the field. Exploring this metaphor, we felt compelled to consider its potential within an expanded view of how racial capitalism structures socio-environmental relations. The hatchet points to political ecology's commitment to dismantling systems of oppression embedded in ra…
Seeing animals like a state? Divergent forester subjectivities and the managing of human-wildlife conflicts in South India
In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice by Susan F. Hirsch
Long Wars and the Constitution
Journal Article Long Wars and the Constitution Get access Long Wars and the Constitution by Stephen M. Griffin. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2013. 376 pp. $39.95. Joseph Margulies Joseph Margulies Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 3, Fall 2014, Pages 527–528, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12236 Published: 11 September 2014
War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Journal Article War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority Get access War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority by Mariah Zeisberg. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2013. 288 pp. $29.95. Joseph Margulies Joseph Margulies Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 2015, Pages 155–156, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq…
Moral Legitimacy, Creedal Narratives, and National Identity
Scholars sometimes misunderstand the role that law plays in achieving social change. Law in the United States represents the codification of normative ideologies, or creedal narratives. New ideologies can take hold in society only as the result of deep and wide structural changes that cause the gradual erosion of others. Lawmakers-whether judicial or political-eventually give these new ideologies legitimacy. Contrary to Bruce Ackerman's contentio…
Ambiguous Geographies: Connecting Case Study Knowledge with Global Change Science
Case studies have long been a gold standard for investigating causal mechanisms in human–environment interactions. Yet it remains a challenge to generalize across case studies to produce knowledge at broader regional and global scales even as the effort to do so, mostly using metastudy methods, has accelerated. One major obstacle is that the geographic context of case study knowledge is often presented in a vague and incomplete form, making it di…
What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 And the Making of National Identity
Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape—especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam—American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks…
Furthering post-human political ecologies
The production of human-wildlife conflict: A political animal geography of encounter
The Conservation Ideological State Apparatus
This article considers Louis Althusser's theory of the ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. I reflect on a series of events in which a state forest department in South India attempted to recast violent conflicts between themselves and local communities over access to natural resources and a protected area as a debate over human-wildlife conflicts.…
The imaginary ‘Asian Super Consumer: A critique of demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade
There is increasing focus on altering consumer behavior within the conservation sector working to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT). In this review we highlight how demand reduction campaigns can build on and reproduce problematic stereotypes that create and perpetuate a figure we characterize as the “Asian Super Consumer.” While there are numerous studies critiquing disturbing and racist narratives of particular actors engaged in the supply-si…
Making the 'man-eater: Tiger conservation as necropolitics
In this article I analyze the practice and politics of classifying a tiger as a ‘man-eater’ in South India to explore what doing so reveals more broadly about the relations between animal life and the kinds of human life marked as expendable by the state. I draw on Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics in order to analyze how the Indian State attempts to manage human-wildlife relations in a contested plantation landscape of high priority for w…
On coming into animal presence with photovoice
Methodological advancement within more-than-human geography lags behind its theorization. As an intervention into the promise of visual methods for enlivening more-than-human geographies, I describe working with a photographic practice for exploring geographies of encounter between humans, the animals they care for, and wild animals. This is presented through discussing a collaborative project employing photovoice to explore wildlife conservation…
Understanding drivers of demand, researching consumption of illegal wildlife products: A reply to Bergin et al
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,…
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…
A Political Ecology of Desire
How does attention to exertion and absence of care illuminate possibilities for avoiding extinction amid global biodiversity declines? This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire. It does so to diagnose the threat of extinction anxieties and consider their material and political consequences for impedances to caring for nonhuman life and their f…
Is Cites Protecting Wildlife: Assessing Implementation and Compliance
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…
Learning with the seed bomb: On a Classroom Encounter With Abolition Ecology
Throughout a semester-long introduction to the field of political ecology, our class turned to Paul Robbins' notion of the "hatchet" and the "seed" to categorize the goals of the field. Exploring this metaphor, we felt compelled to consider its potential within an expanded view of how racial capitalism structures socio-environmental relations. The hatchet points to political ecology's commitment to dismantling systems of oppression embedded in ra…
Hostile Terrain 94, Installation, and Meditative Explorations of the US-Mexico Borderlands
In the fall semester of 2021, we organized and curated the participatory art project Hostile Terrain ‘94 at the University of Alabama. The project, conceived and developed by the Undocumented Migration Project, consists of ∼3,200 toe-tags carrying information of deceased migrants found on the US side of the US-Mexico border in the Sonoran Desert. They produce a map of tremendous death. The project allowed participating institutions to make their …
Seeing animals like a state? Divergent forester subjectivities and the managing of human-wildlife conflicts in South India
Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
Sounding Out Borderscapes: A Sonic Geography of the US-Mexico Border at Otay Mountain, California
This article presents a sonic, more-than-human geography of the US–Mexico borderlands. I draw on creative practice to make an empirical contribution to critical border studies. Listening to border architecture offers a way to analyse the politics of border landscapes as they reverberate with sound. Sonic methods assert the living and nonliving qualities of borderscapes and additional valences of violence enacted through border landscapes and atmo…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Wildlife (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Environmental ethics (8 works)