Date/Time:	13 Dec, 13:15-15:00
Lecturer:	Sara van der Hoeven
Room:	302

Lecture slides: 221212_Violent environments_H22.pdf

Collaborative concept mapping:

Mandatory readings:

Schetter, Conrad, Kennedy Mkutu, and Marie Müller-Koné. 2022. ‘Frontier NGOs: Conservancies, Control, and Violence in Northern Kenya’. World Development 151 (March): 105735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105735.

Büscher, Bram, and Maano Ramutsindela. 2015. ‘Green Violence: Rhino Poaching and the War to Save Southern Africa’s Peace Parks’. African Affairs, December, adv058. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adv058 (Links to an external site.).

Bocarejo, Diana, and Diana Ojeda. 2016. ‘Violence and Conservation: Beyond Unintended Consequences and Unfortunate Coincidences’. Geoforum 69 (February): 176–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.001.

BIOSEC - Militarisation & Conservation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lILNq-w9Ns (Links to an external site.)

Recommended readings/videos:

Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Michael Watts, eds. 2001. Violent Environments. 1st ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Introduction The library only offers a hard copy, you can look through the softcopy on Google Books here: https://books.google.se/books?id=PUmeBjGfN74C&printsec=frontcover&hl=sv#v=onepage&q&f=false (Links to an external site.).

Verweijen, Judith. 2020. ‘A Microdynamics Approach to Geographies of Violence: Mapping the Kill Chain in Militarized Conservation Areas’. Political Geography 79 (May): 102153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102153.

Lunstrum, Elizabeth. 2014. ‘Green Militarization: Anti-Poaching Efforts and the Spatial Contours of Kruger National Park’. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (4): 816–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.912545 (Links to an external site.).

Kelly, Alice B., and Megan Ybarra. 2016. ‘Introduction to Themed Issue: “Green Security in Protected Areas”’.Geoforum 69 (February): 171–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.09.013 (Links to an external site.).

Simlai, Trishant. 2015. ‘Conservation “Wars”: Global Rise of Green Militarisation’. Economic & Political Weekly L (50): 39–44.

NRT's Anti-poaching Unit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9WBrtVsAiM&feature=emb_logo (Links to an external site.)

Blog post by Turnhout on the IPBES report: https://politicalecologynetwork.org/2020/04/30/biodiversity-and-the-blind-spot-of-nature-conservation-policy/ (Links to an external site.)