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Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research Open

Stasja Koot, Nowella Anyango‐van Zwieten, Sian Sullivan, Wolfram Dressler, Marja Spierenburg , et al. · 2025

We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologists the desire to understand and address t…

A moral economy of pastoralists? Understanding the ‘jihadist’ insurgency in Mali Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Boubacar Ba · 2024

Political ecology and the power of sociology Open

Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2024

Political Ecology (PE) is a critical and interdisciplinary field in which environmental change, and struggles are studied as they play out in and across cases in the Global South and North. These studies usually combine analyses of materia…

Moving beyond ‘claims’ about reindeer pastoralism in Finnmark, Norway: a rejoinder Open

Andrei Marin, Espen Sjaastad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Mikkel Nils Sara · 2023

A recent article in Pastoralism (Stien et al., Pastoralism 11:1-7, 2021) criticized our earlier analysis of the management models used for reindeer pastoralism in Western Finnmark, Norway (Marin et al., Pastoralism 10:1-8, 2020). According…

Deserts, Semiarid Areas and Desertification Open

Christopher B. Stringer, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Patrick González, Richard Harris, M Jafari , et al. · 2023

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Climate-driven risks to peace over the 21st century Open

Halvard Buhaug, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Elisabeth Gilmore, Cullen S. Hendrix · 2022

Anthropogenic climate change is commonly characterized as a threat to human security. However, the extent to which and under what conditions climate impacts and responses may produce severe risks to peace have seen less systematically asse…

Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad, Iselin Shaw of Tordarroch · 2022

This article argues that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition …

The risks of ecological security Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2022

To forty more years of Political Geography Open

Kevin Grove, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Stefano Costalli, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel , et al. · 2021

Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad, Iselin Shaw of Tordarroch · 2021

We argue that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition as central …

Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands Open

Lindsay C. Stringer, Alisher Mirzabaev, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Rebecca M.B. Harris, Mostafa Jafari , et al. · 2021

Making maps, making claims: the politics and practices of visualisation in environmental governance Open

Synne Movik, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Tim Richardson · 2021

What role does visualisation—such as images and maps—play in environmental and landscape governance? As pointed out by our late colleague Eirin Hongslo, surprisingly little research has been conducted on what 'work' images and maps do in t…

Virtual Forum introduction: Environmental limits, scarcity and degrowth Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2021

Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Boubacar Ba · 2021

Violent clashes between Fulani and Dogon have recently escalated in the Seeno plains in central Mali. After failing to defeat a "jihadist" insurgency dominated by Fulani, the Malian army has sponsored and trained a Dogon militia, which has…

Making time in 2020 Open

Kevin Grove, Kimberley Peters, Caroline Nagel, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Stefano Costalli , et al. · 2020

At Political Geography, the editorial team's annual editorial offers a chance to reflect on the previous year and to consider new directions being taken both at the journal and in the wider sub-discipline. But reflecting on a year such as …

Productivity beyond density: A critique of management models for reindeer pastoralism in Norway Open

Andrei Marin, Espen Sjaastad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Mikkel Nils Sara, Erik Johan Langfeldt Borgenvik · 2020

The official governance of the reindeer pastoralist system in the north of Norway relies overwhelmingly on one central argument: that in order to maintain a sustainable system, maximum numbers and densities of reindeer, as well as certain …

Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya’s Conservancy Frontier Open

Connor Joseph Cavanagh, Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2020

Across eastern and southern Africa, conservation landscapes increasingly extend far beyond the boundaries of government-owned protected areas. Several countries have now granted full legal recognition to various types of private or otherwi…

Depicting decline: images and myths in environmental discourse analysis Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2020

Visual representations remain under-studied in environmental discourse analysis. Drawing on Barthes' notions of denotation, connotation and myth in visual communication, I provide three examples of images of landscape degradation, which ar…

Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania Open

Mikael Bergius, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Faustin Maganga, Halvard Buhaug · 2020

The implementation of the green economy in Tanzania is currently re-arranging space in significant ways. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) has been presented by the government as well as investors and aid donor…

Making and breaking boundaries in times of transition Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Stefano Costalli, Kevin Grove, Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel , et al. · 2019

Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens Open

Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2019

Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to integrating new th…

Beyond bibliometrics Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Stefano Costalli, Kevin Grove, Fiona McConnell, Filippo Menga , et al. · 2019

There may be good reason for considering bibliometrics as one of many factors when deciding which journal should receive a manuscript that is ready for submission. Most authors want their work to be noticed by their colleagues, and bibliom…

Political ecology of tiger conservation in India: Adverse effects of banning customary practices in a protected area Open

D. Nitin, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Siddhartha Krishnan, C. Madegowda · 2018

Protected areas have had significant impacts on local communities primarily through the physical removal of people. In some instances, people continue to live within protected areas due to the inability of the state to evict them. The rest…

REDD og norsk klimakolonialisme i Tanzania Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad · 2018

Finansiering av internasjonalt skogvern som klimatiltak (REDD) har det siste tiåret spilt en viktig rolle i Norges internasjonale profilering. Dette er et tiltak det i Norge har vært tverrpolitisk enighet om, og som frivillige organisasjon…

REDD og norsk klimakolonialisme i Tanzania Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Hanne Svarstad · 2018

Finansiering av internasjonalt skogvern som klimatiltak (REDD) har det siste tiåret spilt en viktig rolle i Norges internasjonale profilering. Dette er et tiltak det i Norge har vært tverrpolitisk enighet om, og som frivillige organisasjon…

Power theories in political ecology Open

Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ragnhild Overå · 2018

Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing acces…

Power theories in political ecology Open

Hanne Svarstad, Ragnhild Overå, Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2018

Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing acces…

Political geography in the impasse Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Halvard Buhaug, Kevin Grove, Fiona McConnell, Philip E. Steinberg · 2017

Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a discourse on affect. From claims that right-wing populism emerges from a background of racialized resentment or the anger of the 'left behind', through to analyses of ho…

Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities Open

Connor Joseph Cavanagh, Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2017

Over the past two decades, political ecologists have provided extensive critiques of the privatization, commodification, and marketization of nature, including of the new forms of accumulation and appropriation that these might facilitate …

Review of The Arid Lands. History, Power, Knowledge by Diana K. Davis Open

Tor A. Benjaminsen · 2017

Book details Diana K. Davis Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2016. 271 pp; ISBN: 978-0-262-034552-4

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