Onderwerp scriptie

Supervision Stasja Koot

I work as a assistant professor at the SDC group. As an environmental anthropologist I have worked a lot with indigenous peoples, in particular their contemporary involvement in nature conservation and (eco-) tourism. Moreover, I have done some work on people’s online engagement with nature more generally and today my research focuses on a project called Crisis Conservation. Crisis Conservation is a project led by Bram Büscher, focused on the consequences of and responses to the extraction of natural resources and wildlife crime in global highly biodiversity areas. I am also interested in the politics of white belonging at so-called wildlife estates in South Africa.

Fields of Expertise

• Indigeneity/indigenous people
• Nature conservation
• The politics of belonging/autochthony
• Neoliberal capitalism
• Philanthrocapitalism
• Social media and nature conservation
• Wildlife crime
• Natural resource extraction
• Community-Based Natural Resource Managament (CBNRM)
• Trophy hunting
• Ontologies/world views
• (eco)Tourism
• Autoethnography
• Paternalism
• Land dynamics

Geographical Area

• South Africa
• Namibia
• Indonesia