Bastian Thomsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 905638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bastian Thomsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomsen |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8064-2967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations
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
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
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
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
The promise of posthumanism in wildlife ecotourism: A set of case studies of veterinarians’ role at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Costa Rica
This study explored wildlife rehabilitation centers (WRCs) in Costa Rica as a potential posthumanist model for wildlife ecotourism. Posthumanism attends to the rights, welfare, and agency of nonhumans to depart from a conservation biology ethos that focuses on the species-level, to consider all particular individual animals in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs). A team of 16 US-based researchers composed of faculty, a wildlife rehabilitation pro…
Rethinking 21st Century Fisheries Management: Posthuman multispecies livelihoods approach
A Vertically Integrated Project Approach to Ethnographic Methods Training
The Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) model, developed in engineering, is a methodological approach that integrates undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty in projects for both research and student training. Recent applications of this model report that it could foster student-faculty collaboration, empower senior students to mentor juniors, transcend disciplinary silos that often hinder research, and promote diversity and inclusi…
Posthuman pedagogy: Experiential education for an era of mutualism
Wildlife-human relations in the United States are predominantly influenced by Euro-American sociocultural dynamics and (neo)colonial legacies. Humans dominate nonhuman animals through violence, suffering, and death. Wildlife management as a practice is becoming increasingly criticized. Disagreement emerges from epistemological and ontological foundations and remains contentious in theory and practice. Environmental education reinforces the subjug…
Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village
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 …
Tourism & animal suffering: Mapping the future
Multispecies livelihoods: A Posthumanist Approach to Wildlife Ecotourism That Promotes Animal Ethics
Research on animal ethics in tourism has gained traction but posthumanist approaches to wildlife (eco)tourism remain sparse. There has never been a more urgent need to redress this paucity in theory and practice. More than 60% of the world’s wildlife has died-off in the last 50 years, 100 million-plus nonhuman animals are used for entertainment in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs), more than one billion “wildlife” live in captivity, and some sc…
Transcultural Development
In practice, development too often neglects the perspective of the impoverished when attempting to ameliorate negative socioeconomic conditions that persist. Entrepreneurs, and in particular social entrepreneurs, often attempt to solve social issues through a triple-bottom line approach but in many cases focus on the problem without greater consideration to the cultural context of their intervention. We introduce a new term, transcultural develop…
Multispecies livelihoods: A Posthumanist Approach to Wildlife Ecotourism That Promotes Animal Ethics
Research on animal ethics in tourism has gained traction but posthumanist approaches to wildlife (eco)tourism remain sparse. There has never been a more urgent need to redress this paucity in theory and practice. More than 60% of the world’s wildlife has died-off in the last 50 years, 100 million-plus nonhuman animals are used for entertainment in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs), more than one billion “wildlife” live in captivity, and some sc…
Tourism & animal suffering: Mapping the future
Indigenous-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano
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
Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village
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 …
Transcultural Development
In practice, development too often neglects the perspective of the impoverished when attempting to ameliorate negative socioeconomic conditions that persist. Entrepreneurs, and in particular social entrepreneurs, often attempt to solve social issues through a triple-bottom line approach but in many cases focus on the problem without greater consideration to the cultural context of their intervention. We introduce a new term, transcultural develop…
Tourism & animal suffering: Mapping the future
Multispecies livelihoods: A Posthumanist Approach to Wildlife Ecotourism That Promotes Animal Ethics
Research on animal ethics in tourism has gained traction but posthumanist approaches to wildlife (eco)tourism remain sparse. There has never been a more urgent need to redress this paucity in theory and practice. More than 60% of the world’s wildlife has died-off in the last 50 years, 100 million-plus nonhuman animals are used for entertainment in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs), more than one billion “wildlife” live in captivity, and some sc…
The promise of posthumanism in wildlife ecotourism: A set of case studies of veterinarians’ role at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Costa Rica
This study explored wildlife rehabilitation centers (WRCs) in Costa Rica as a potential posthumanist model for wildlife ecotourism. Posthumanism attends to the rights, welfare, and agency of nonhumans to depart from a conservation biology ethos that focuses on the species-level, to consider all particular individual animals in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs). A team of 16 US-based researchers composed of faculty, a wildlife rehabilitation pro…
Rethinking 21st Century Fisheries Management: Posthuman multispecies livelihoods approach
A Vertically Integrated Project Approach to Ethnographic Methods Training
The Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) model, developed in engineering, is a methodological approach that integrates undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty in projects for both research and student training. Recent applications of this model report that it could foster student-faculty collaboration, empower senior students to mentor juniors, transcend disciplinary silos that often hinder research, and promote diversity and inclusi…
Posthuman pedagogy: Experiential education for an era of mutualism
Wildlife-human relations in the United States are predominantly influenced by Euro-American sociocultural dynamics and (neo)colonial legacies. Humans dominate nonhuman animals through violence, suffering, and death. Wildlife management as a practice is becoming increasingly criticized. Disagreement emerges from epistemological and ontological foundations and remains contentious in theory and practice. Environmental education reinforces the subjug…
Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village
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 …
Indigenous-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano
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
Beyond saving lives: Political ecology, animal welfare, and the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation in Costa Rica
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…
Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations
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
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…
Geography (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)