D A Villar

Biographic Data

ID66867
NAMED A Villar
GIVEN NAMESD A
FAMILY NAMEVillar
SIGNATUREVILLAR D A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0001-9609-7983
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations

    Open AccessOlav Muurlink, Yeonji Seo et al.ARTICLEBusiness & Society2026

    How does corruption take root inside organizations that are outwardly legitimate and explicitly “zero tolerance?” Drawing on 9 years of co-constructed autoethnographic research from within an international NGO operating in coastal Bangladesh, we examine how entrepreneurial competencies can be redeployed for corrupt ends through the exploitation—and active production—of institutional and organizational voids. We extend Cavotta and Phillips’ model …

  • Ethnography as a backdoor to critical tourism studies: Insights from an ethnobiology study of Indigenous-bird relations in the Altiplano region of Perú and Bolivia

    Open AccessD A Villar, Bastian Thomsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2026

    Indigenous-based tourism can alleviate poverty, yet its socioecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. This ethnobiology study examines the Uro people of Lake Titicaca, historically marginalized fishers once confined to floating islands made of totora sedge, to illustrate how tourism reshaped their livelihoods and environments within a couple of generations. It reveals how the Uro strategically leveraged their Traditional Ecological Knowled…

  • Beyond saving lives: Political ecology, animal welfare, and the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica

    Open AccessSarah Coose, Bastian Thomsen et al.ARTICLEHuman-Animal Interactions2025

    Wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica is a deeply complex and often precarious endeavor, shaped by the intersection of local socio-political realities, environmental pressures, and the inherent limitations of the centers themselves. These factors not only challenge the governance of wildlife conservation but also profoundly affect the daily lives of the staff and the nonhuman animals they care for (hereafter animals for simplicity). This ethnobio…

  • Indigenous-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano

    Open AccessD A Villar, Bastian Thomsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2024Cited by: 1References: 83

    Understanding the drivers of conflict and coexistence in human-wildlife relations are critical to conservation. This study sought to understand th varying attitudes of local indigenous people towards wildlife, focusing on the Titicaca Grebe ( Rollandia microptera), an endangered endemic species found in Lake Titicaca and surrounding waters in the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia. We used an ethnobiology approach to understand which demographic, soci…

  • Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca

    Open AccessD A Villar, Bastian Thomsen et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2024Cited by: 1References: 88

  • Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village

    Open AccessJhazel Quispe, D A Villar et al.ARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2023Cited by: 1References: 3

    This paper presents a qualitative analysis of people’s attitudes and knowledge of the endangered endemic Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in the Aymara fishing village of Karana, Peru, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Most respondents hold no strong opinions on the Titicaca Grebe, and those who do tend to be hostile towards it. Hostility towards the species tends to come from fishers, who view the species as competition for fish and blame it …