07.08.19
Decolonising the environment: race, rationalities and crises
Blog by Adeniyi Asiyanbi Colonialism was a thoroughly environmental project. And the environment remains dangerously colonial today at a time of significant environmental crises. From the plundering of resources for imperial expansion to the constitution of the colonies as the playground of Western environmentalism; from imposition of the ideas of ‘wilderness’ on landscapes to the […]
06.08.19
Conserving what, how, and for whom? Unpacking SDG 15 “Life on land” and its links to convivial conservation
By Judith Krauss, University of Sheffield (UK). This blog was originally published on Convivial Conversation. What does the 15th Sustainable Development Goal, dubbed “Life on Land”, mean for CONVIVA, our research project investigating how conservation can be made more convivial, socially just, transformative? This blog post hopes to offer some initial, non-exhaustive thoughts building on a […]
05.06.19
It’s time to break out your ‘Save the Rainforest’ T-Shirt – and reflect on your consumption and voting habits while you’re at it
Escalating environmental and social destruction in Brazil needs to be stopped urgently to protect vital biomes and their inhabitants in order to halt further deforestation, extinction and global warming. Why should we care and what can we do?
24.01.19
Elephants and Sesame
Blog post by SIID Director Dan Brockington, telling the story of how a malfunctioning Wildlife Management Area causes a dilemma for development in Mbomaminijika, Tanzania. Originally posted Nov 13 2018 by NEPSUS. There is an old adage among Marxists that the one thing worse than being exploited by capital is not being exploited by it […]
18.07.18
Building back worse? When efforts to build community resilience fail.
Part of the ESRC-DFID-funded project ‘Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities’
11.07.18
Participatory Video Making: Experiences from Nepal
Resilience policy-making: giving voice to communities