Papers and talks

University of Hamburg

Rosaleen Duffy delivered an invited lecture at University of Hamburg ‘Political Ecologies of Security: Militarisation of conservation’ 14 November 2023.

Linnean Society 

Rosaleen Duffy. Invited Lecture, The Linnean Society. ‘Is Wildlife Crime a Security Threat? 26 January 2023 Watch it back on youtube

Wageningen University

Roundtable Panel on Political Ecologies of Illegal Trades, featuring Dr Esther Marijnen, Dr Annah Zhu and Prof Bram Buscher, Wageningen University 17 November 2022.

OC 24 Conference

Roundtable Panel Rosaleen Duffy's book Security and Conservation, featuring Prof Angus Nurse, Prof Tanya Wyatt and Dr Erica Von Essen, OC24 conference, Global Transparency Initiative. 14 October 2022. Watch it back on youtube

Keynote at the Peoples Conservation Congress

Rosaleen Duffy  ‘The impact of militarised conservation on Indigenous Peoples’, Marseille 2 Sept 2021, organised by Survival International 

Caring for the forests during the Covid19 pandemic: Forest livelihoods and the limits of cyberactivism in Romania
Iordăchescu, G. 2020. Paper given at FLARE 2020 conference, Twitter. 29 Oct 2020.

Is illegal logging and timber trade an organised crime in the European Union?
Iordăchescu, G. 2020. Paper given at Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation Conference, online. 7-9 Oct 2020.
Presentation slides. (PDF, 2MB)

POLLEN 20 | Contested Natures: Power, Politics, Prefiguration
Virtual conference, 22-25 September 2020.

Plenary/ Keynotes

• Conservation futures – BIOSEC plenary. Rosaleen Duffy and George Iordăchescu – chairs. Watch this keynote session.

• Geopolitical Ecologies of EU Biodiversity strategies. Hannah Dickinson – keynote.

• Critical insights from Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) demand-side interventions’. Anh Vu – keynote.

Panels/ Sessions

• Political ecologies of the illicit. Francis Massé – chair. Jared Margulies – panellist.

• Reframing legality and power in the contested terrain of wildlife trade governance. George Iordăchescu and Hannah Dickinson – chairs.

• Environmental peacebuilding in a changing climate: ‘Greenwashing’ sustainability or building environmentally and socially just peace?. Teresa Lappe-Osthege – chair.

• Deconstructing the fluidity in ranger-poacher binaries: Quotidian hierarchies of power, surveillance and technology. Francis Massé – panellist.

Papers

• Regulating illegal caviar trade in the European Union: Contested expressions of legality and power. Hannah Dickinson.

• Making a case for convivial conservation in Europe – lessons from other radical conservation proposals. George Iordăchescu

• Reconsidering the (il)legality of logging and timber trade and the protection of old-growth forests in the EU. George Iordăchescu

• Future sustainability built on present injustice? A critical engagement with the concept of environmental peacebuilding. Teresa Lappe-Osthege.

PelicamTalks: biodiversity between extinction and species return
R Duffy. 2020. As part of discussion panel at Pelicam International Film Festival. Romania/online, 18 July 2020.
Watch the discussion.

Illegal wildlife demand reduction campaigns in authoritarian Vietnam: ungrounded environmentalism
N Vu. 2020. Paper given at DSA conference. 19 June 2020.
Abstract (PDF, 21KB).
Presentation (PDF, 10.7MB).

The COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath: authoritarian state responses and civil society dynamism in Vietnam
A Vu. 2020. Presentation given at ‘Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vietnamese Civil Society Organisations – Opportunities and Challenges’ conference. 7 May 2020.

Illegal logging and timber trade: towards a political ecology of spectacular deforestation in the Carpathians
GIordăchescu. 2020. Talk given at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 28 April 2020.
Presentation (PDF, 14KB).

Political ecologies of connecting conservation with global security
R Duffy. 2020. Presentation given via Zoom at the workshop ‘Addressing Wildlife Crimes in Conflict Zones Through Non-Violent & Community Consultation’. Kigali, Rwanda. 12-13 March 2020.
Presentation (PDF, 2.2MB).

Political ecologies of connecting conservation with global security in the illegal wildlife trade
R Duffy. 2020. Talk given at ATREE, Bangalore. 2 March 2020.
Abstract (PDF, 1.5MB).
Presentation (PDF, 2.2MB).

The illegal wildlife trade in Europe: wild birds and caviar
H Dickinson and T Lappe-Osthege. 2020. Knowledge Exchange Roundtable in the European Parliament, Brussels. 22 Jan 2020.
Wild birds – presentation slides (PDF, 925KB)

Political ecologies of security: privatisation, militarisation and conservation
R Duffy. 2019. Abstract from Debating Development: The role of the private sector in sustainable development in Antwerp 12 November 2019
Abstract (PDF, 8KB).

The political ecology of security: conservation, capitalism and global security converge
R Duffy. 2019. Abstract from the ICTA-UAB / SIID Workshop “Conservation, climate change and decolonisation – exploring new frontiers in conservation social science” in Barcelona 30 October 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 51KB).

Future sustainability built on present injustice? A critical engagement with the concept of environmental peacebuilding
T Lappe-Osthege. 2019. Abstract from the International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding 24 October 2019
Abstract (PDF, 51KB).

Systematised data collection in protected areas: supporting or surveilling field conservation staff?
L Joanny 2019. Abstract from paper given at 2019 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 30 Aug 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 273KB).

Fast tech, slow humans? The social side of implementing monitoring technologies for wildlife conservation
L Joanny. 2019. Abstract from the International Congress for Conservation Biology 23 July 2019
Abstract (PDF, 392KB).

A political ecology of security: the convergence of conservation and security in the illegal wildlife trade
R Duffy 2019. Abstract from the Political Ecology Network workshop in Sheffield, 19 June 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 393KB).

Political plants
J Margulies. 2019. Abstract from the Political Ecology Network workshop in Sheffield, 19 June 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 93KB).

Geopolitical ecologies of the illegal wildlife trade: macro trends and local manifestations of changes in conservation and development assistance
F Masse. 2019. Talk given at Northumbria University 15 May 2019.

The political afterlives of lively commodities
B Bersaglio and J Margulies. 2019. Abstract from paper given at Animal Remains conference, Sheffield 29-30 April 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 390KB).

Desire and the non-human: the illicit cactus and affective geographies of extinction
J Margulies. 2019. Abstract from paper given at AAG 2019 conference, Washington DC, 3-7 April 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 43KB).

Mapping new configurations and geographies of military, security and policing power with the “war” on poaching
Masse, F. 2019. Abstract from paper given at AAG 2019 conference, Washington DC, 3-7 April 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 43KB).

Securing sturgeon: politics of life and death in the pursuit of ‘Black gold’
H Dickinson. 2019. Abstract from paper given at AAG 2019 conference, Washington DC, 3-7 April 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 42KB).

Environmental peacebuilding – new research trajectories for post-conflict natural resource management
T Lappe-Osthege. 2019. Roundtable at the International Studies Association annual convention 28 March 2019.

Encountering ‘the border’: geopolitical ecologies of sturgeon conservation
H Dickinson. 2019. Abstract from paper given at the Conservation Geopolitics forum 20-22 March 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 394KB).

The geopolitical priorities of US biodiversity conservation: mapping the activities and funding of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s International Affairs Program
Masse, F. and Margulies, J. 2019. Abstract from paper given at the Conservation Geopolitics forum 20-22 March 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 396KB).

Thinking (geo)politically: A political ecology of conservation and global security
Duffy, R. 2019. Plenary at the Conservation Geopolitics forum 20-22 March 2019.
Abstract (PDF, 384KB).

A political ecology of security: the convergence of conservation and security in the illegal wildlife trade
R Duffy. 2019. Talk given at The University of Barcelona, 4 March 2019
Abstract (PDF, 201KB)

Political ecologies of security: strategies of accumulation and militarisation in anti poaching
R Duffy. 2019. Talk given at The University of Leeds, 13 February 2019
Abstract (PDF, 385KB)

Political ecological of security: thinking through the illegal wildlife trade
R Duffy. 2018. Presentation slides (PDF, 1.3MB) from talk given at Bristol University, 23 October 2018

Making the “man-eater”: the role of the state in producing more-than-human geographies of deathly encounter
J Margulies. 2018. Abstract from paper given at 2018 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 31 Aug 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 188KB).

Circulations of caviar: the geopolitical ecology of sturgeon and their ‘Black Gold.’
Dickinson, H. 2018. Abstract from paper given at 2018 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 30 Aug 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 192KB).

Thinking through the political ecology of wildlife crime: power, biodiversity, security, and the changing politics of conservation
F Massé. 2018. Keynote given at the Environmental Crime and Security Conference, Sarajevo, 28 Aug 2018.

Political ecologies of security: the militarisation of conservation
R Duffy. 2018. Presentation to the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions (CEED), Brisbane, 24 Jul 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 66KB).

Political ecology of security: the politics of transnational wildlife crime
R Duffy. 2018. Abstract from paper given at IPSA World Congress, Brisbane, 21-26 Jul 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 179KB). 

Political ecology of security: British army training in APUs
R Duffy. 2018. Presentation slides from paper given at POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo, 20-22 Jun 2018.
Presentation slides (PDF, 279KB).

‘Mobile caviar’: the geopolitics of ‘non-human’ migration and mobility’
H Dickinson. 2018. Abstract from paper given at POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo, 20-22 Jun 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 56KB).

Environmental peacebuilding and the immaterial environment – understanding territorial conflicts through environmental sensemaking
T Lappe-Osthege. 2018. Abstract from paper given at POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo, 20-22 Jun 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 88KB).

Policing biodiversity: biopolitics, biopolitical production, and securing conservation economies
F Masse. 2018. Abstract from paper given at POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo, 20-22 Jun 2018.

Rhinopower: the “Make live and let die” politics of rhino conservation in Kenya
B Bersaglio. 2018. Abstract from paper given at POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo, 20-22 Jun 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 40KB).

‘Black gold’ and grey areas: gaps in the regulation of caviar trade in the EU
H Dickinson. 2018. Presentation to Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge. 7 Jun 2018.
Presentation slides (PDF, 6.7KB).

‘If it flies, it dies’: the illegal bird trade from the Western Balkans into the EU
Lappe-Osthege, T. 2018. Presentation to Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge. 7 Jun 2018.
Presentation slides (PDF, 969KB).

Militarisation of conservation
F Masse and R Duffy. 2018. Seminar at FFI/CCI, Cambridge. 7 Jun 2018.
Presentation slides (PDF, 881KB).

Biodiversity and wildlife crime: On safari to extinction
F Massé. 2018. Discussion panel at the European Youth Event, Strasbourg, 1 June 2018.
Event programme (external PDF).

More-than-human geographies of encounter: a praxiography of human-wildlife conflict
J Margulies. 2018. Abstract from paper given at ‘Social difference and nature: Contesting Narratives of Elitism’ conference, Edinburgh, 31 May -1 June 2018.
Paper (PDF, 35KB). 

State power in green: from conservation areas to the conservation state
F Masse 2018. Abstract from paper given at AAG 2018 conference, New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 85KB). 

Making the “man-eater”: the role of the state in producing violent multispecies environments
J Margulies. 2018. Abstract from paper given at AAG 2018 conference, New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 71KB). 

‘Mobile caviar’: the geopolitics of ‘non-human’ migration and mobility
H Dickinson. 2018. Abstract from paper given at RGS Midterm conference, Royal Holloway, April 2018
Abstract (PDF, 55KB).

Exploring the linkages of biodiversity and security – the case of the illegal bird trade in the western balkans
T Lappe-Osthege. Paper given at the Adriatic Flyway Conference, Serbia. 19–23 Mar 2018.
Abstract (PDF, 175KB).

Conservation enforcement in Nepal
R Duffy. Video address for ‘Conservation Enforcement in Nepal: Exploring enforcement-based responses to wildlife trade’ event, Nepal. 10 Jan 2018.
Workshop report (PDF, 442KB).

Departmental seminar: BIOSEC
R Duffy. Presentation slides from Departmental Seminar, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. 18 Oct 2017.
Presentation (PDF, 34KB).

Knowledge exchange workshop: IWT symposium
R Duffy, L Joanny, and H Dickinson, H. Presentation slides from the first BIOSEC Knowledge Exchange workshop at Oxford Martin School Illegal Wildlife Trade Symposium. 26 Sep 2017.
Presentation (PDF, 1MB).

BISA 2017: BIOSEC and political ecology
R Duffy. Talk delivered at BISA Conference. 15 June 2017.
Presentation (PDF, 654KB).

The ivory trade
R Duffy. Talk on the ivory trade to mark the opening of Stories from the East: the grice ivories exhibition at Weston Park Museum. 18 May 2017
Presentation (PDF, 1.1MB).

Environmental Crime: the politics of redefining wildlife trafficking as a global security threat
R Duffy. Talk for Human geographies research seminar series, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield. 9 May 2017.
Presentation (PDF, 876KB).

Interventionism, global security and the new era of biodiversity conservation
R Duffy, Paper given at AAG 2017 conference, Boston, 5-9 April 2017.
Abstract (PDF, 110KB).

Interventionism, global security and the new era of biodiversity conservation
R Duffy. 2017. Presentation given at Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) at Trinity College, Dublin, on 17 February 2017.
Presentation slides (PDF, 2.2MB).

British Animal Studies Network Conference: Keynote
R Duffy. Keynote British Animal Studies Network Conference, University of Sheffield. 18–19 November 2016.
Listen to the keynote. 

RUSI/ The Global Initiative Roundtable – militarisation of poaching
R Duffy, Royal United Services Institute/Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Roundtable on militarisation of poaching. 12 October 2015.