by T. A. Benjaminsen (2023)
It is often unclear what non-anthropocentrism means in practice. Where clarification is attempted, it turns out to be a Eurocentric neglect of issues of power, human rights and distribution. In this way, non-anthropocentrism is in direct conflict with climate and environmental justice.
The Risks of Ecological Security
by T. A. Benjaminsen (2023)
Both quantitative peace and conflict studies (e.g. Buhaug 2010; Theisen et al., 2013; Koubi, 2019) and case-based political ecology (e.g. Benjaminsen et al., 2012; Abrahams and Carr 2017; Benjaminsen and Ba, 2021) have questioned assumptions about climate change as a driver of violence and insecurity, although there may be indirect pathways under certain contexts. My own positionality in debates about climate security and in these comments on the book discussed in this Forum (McDonald, 2021) is rooted in my background in political ecology research on land-use conflicts in the Sahel where I have seen the need to push back at simplistic and apolitical narratives about giving climate a leading role to explain crisis and conflict in the region.
Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa
by C. Cavanagh & T. A. Benjaminsen (2022)
While conservation organizations work to expand the network of protected areas in Africa to 30 percent or more of terrestrial land area, the flip side of such expansion is the mounting dispossession of rural land users, including subsistence-oriented farmers and pastoralists. This may result in forced migration to urban areas or elsewhere, but also to various forms of resistance: both covert and more overt instances of opposition to conservation. This chapter examines the risks and determinants of these variable constellations of overt resistance. In doing so, it assesses whether or to what extent recent developments in violent resistance, including the growth of jihadist groups, can be linked to the expansion of a top-down environmental conservation agenda.
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