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Martin, A. and McGuire, S. and Sullivan, Sian (2013) Global environmental justice and biodiversity conservation. The Geographical journal 179 (2), pp. 122-131. ISSN 1475-4959.

Sullivan, Sian (2013) Banking nature? The spectacular financialisation of environmental conservation. Antipode 45 (1), pp. 198-217. ISSN 0066-4812.

Sullivan, Sian (2013) After the green rush? Biodiversity offsets, uranium power and the ‘calculus of casualties’ in greening growth. Human Geography 6 (1), ISSN 1942-7786.

Sullivan, Sian and Igoe, J. and Buscher, B. (2013) Introducing nature on the move -- a triptych. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 6 (1-2), pp. 14-19. ISSN 1715-6718.

Sullivan, Sian (2013) Nature on the move III: (re)countenancing an animate nature. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 6 (1-2), pp. 50-71. ISSN 1715-6718.

Sullivan, Sian (2012) Book review: Living among “Things of Value”: Stephan Schwartzman, Indigenous Restitution, and Forest (Carbon) Conservation. American Anthropologist 114 (4), pp. 683-685. ISSN 1548-1433.

Buscher, B. and Sullivan, Sian and Neves, K. and Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. (2012) Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation. Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (2), pp. 4-30. ISSN 15483-290.

Pawliczek, J. and Sullivan, Sian (2011) Conservation and concealment in SpeciesBanking.com, USA: an analysis of neoliberal performance in the species offsetting industry. Environmental Conservation 38 (4), pp. 435-444. ISSN 0376-8929.

Sullivan, Sian and Spicer, A. and Bohm, S. (2011) Becoming global (un)civil society: counter-hegemonic struggle and the Indymedia network. Globalizations 8 (5), pp. 703-717. ISSN 1474-7731.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) Supposing truth is a woman? A commentary. International Feminist Journal of Politics 13 (2), pp. 231-237. ISSN 1461-6742.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) On bioculturalism, shamanism & unlearning the creed of growth. Geography and You 11 (65), pp. 15-19.

Frenzel, F. and Bohm, S. and Quinton, P. and Spicer, A. and Sullivan, Sian and Young, Z. (2011) Alternative media in north and south - a comparison: the cases of IFIWatchnet and Indymedia in Africa. Environment and Planning A 43 , pp. 1173-1189. ISSN 0308-518x.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) Conservation is sexy! What makes this so, and what does this make? An engagement with celebrity and the environment. Conservation and Society 9 (3), pp. 102-113. ISSN 0972-4923.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) Supposing truth is a woman: a commentary. International Feminist Journal of Politics 13 (2), pp. 231-237. ISSN 1461-6742.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) A technological recipe for making nature the friend of capital. The Land , pp. 44-46.

Sullivan, Sian (2010) ‘Ecosystem service commodities’ – a new imperial ecology? Implications for animist immanent ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari. New Formations 69 , pp. 111-128. ISSN 0950-2378.

Igoe, J. and Sullivan, Sian and Brockington, D. (2010) Problematizing neoliberal biodiversity conservation: displaced and disobedient knowledge. Current Conservation 3 (3), pp. 4-7. ISSN 0974-0953.

Sullivan, Sian (2009) Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service-provider. Radical Anthropology 3 , pp. 18-27. ISSN 1756-090X.

Young, Z. and Sullivan, Sian (2009) Book review: DDS Community Media Trust, P.V. Satheesh and Michel Pimbert (2008) ‘Affirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India’. PLA Notes 60 , pp. 196-198. ISSN 1357-938X.

Sullivan, Sian (2009) Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service provider. Radical Anthropology 3 , pp. 18-27. ISSN 1756-090X.

Sullivan, Sian (2009) An ecosystem at your service? The Land Magazine Winter , pp. 21-23.

Sullivan, Sian (2008) Bioculturalism, shamanism & economics. Resurgence 205 ,

Sullivan, Sian (2007) Book review: Goodridge, J. 1999 "Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance and Ceremony", Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd, London. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (3), pp. 748-749. ISSN 1359-0987.

Sullivan, Sian (2006) The elephant in the room? Problematizing ‘new’ (neoliberal) biodiversity conservation. Forum for Development Studies 33 (1), pp. 105-135. ISSN 0803-9410.

Bohm, S. and Sullivan, Sian (2005) Sensing the forum: a collage. ephemera: theory & politics in organization 5 (2),

Sullivan, Sian (2005) Riflessioni sulla ‘nuova’ (neoliberista) protezione ambientale (con casi pratici dalla Namibia). Africa e Orienti 2 , pp. 102-115.

Bohm, S. and Sullivan, Sian and Reyes, O. (2005) The organisation and politics of social forums. ephemera: critical dialogues on organization 5 (2), pp. 98-101. ISSN 1473-2866.

Sullivan, Sian (2005) An 'other' world is possible? on representation, rationalism and romanticism in social forums. ephemera: theory & politics in organization 5 (2), pp. 370-392. ISSN 1473-2866.

Sullivan, Sian (2003) Book review: Anderson, D. and Broch-Due, V. (eds.) 1999 "The Poor are not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa", James Currey, East African Educational Publishing and Ohio University Press, Oxford, Nairobi and Athens. The Journal of Modern African Studies 41 (4), p. 658. ISSN 0022-278X.

Sullivan, Sian (2003) Frontline(s). ephemera: critical dialogues on organization 3 (1), pp. 68-89. ISSN 1473-2866.

Sullivan, Sian and Rohde, R. (2002) On non-equilibrium in arid and semi-arid grazing systems. Journal of Biogeography 29 (12), pp. 1595-1618. ISSN 1365-2699.

Sullivan, Sian (2001) Book review: Mistry, J. 2000 "world savannas: ecology and human use". Prentice Hall, London. Progress in Physical Geography 25 (2), pp. 299-300. ISSN 0309-1333.

Sullivan, Sian (2001) Book review: Kinahan, Jill. 2000 "cattle for beads: the archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib coast". Cimbebasia 17 , pp. 258-260. ISSN 0590-6342.

Sullivan, Sian (2001) Danza e diversità: copri, movimento ed esperienza nella trance-dance dei Khoisan e nei rave occidentali. Africa e Mediterraneo Cultura e Societa 37 (3), pp. 15-22.

Sullivan, Sian (2001) Difference, identity and access to official discourses: Hai||om, ‘bushmen’, and a recent Namibian ethnography. Anthropos 96 , pp. 179-192. ISSN 0257-9774.

Sullivan, Sian (2000) Book review: gambling with risk. review of Mortimore, M. 1998 ‘Roots in the African Dust: Sustaining the Drylands’ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 (4), pp. 577-595. ISSN 1359-0987.

Sullivan, Sian (1999) Folk and formal, local and national: Damara cultural knowledge and community-based conservation in southern Kunene, Namibia. Cimbebasia 15 , pp. 1-28. ISSN 0590-6342.

Sullivan, Sian (1999) The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 8 (3-4), pp. 257-287. ISSN 1466-8238.

Konstant, T.L. and Sullivan, Sian (1997) Human impacts on woody vegetation, and multivariate analysis: a case study based on data from Khowarib settlement, Kunene Region. Dinteria 25 , pp. 87-120. ISSN 0012-3013.

Sullivan, Sian (1996) Towards a non-equilibrium ecology: perspectives from an arid land. Journal of Biogeography 23 (1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 1365-2699.

Konstant, T.L. and Sullivan, Sian (1995) The effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the palm savanna of north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49 (4), pp. 345-356. ISSN 1874-9364.

Sullivan, Sian and Konstant, T.L. and Cunningham, A.B. (1995) The impact of the utilization of palm products on the population structure of the vegetable ivory palm (hyphaene petersiana, arecaceae) in north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49 (4), pp. 357-370. ISSN 0013-0001.

Sullivan, Sian (1994) Book review: Savanna details with a paradigm shift: review of "An African savanna". Scholes, R.J. and Walker, B.H. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Journal of Biogeography 21 (4), p. 448. ISSN 1365-2699.

Book Section

Mueller, T. and Sullivan, Sian (2015) Making other worlds possible? Riots, movement and counterglobalisation. In: Davis, M. (ed.) Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239-255. ISBN 9780230203983.

Sullivan, Sian (2012) Green: an activist film. In: Blewitt, J. (ed.) The Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 41-42. ISBN 9780415522083.

Frenzel, F. and Sullivan, Sian (2009) Globalization from below? ICTs and democratic development in the project ‘Indymedia Africa’. In: Mudhai, O.F. and Tettey, W.J. and Banda, F. (eds.) African Media and the Digital Public Sphere. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 165-182. ISBN 9780230614864.

Sullivan, Sian (2009) Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service-provider. In: Bohm, S. and Dabhi, S. (eds.) Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets. London, UK: MayFly Books, pp. 255-274. ISBN 9781906948078.

Sullivan, Sian (2008) ‘Viva Nihilism!’ On militancy and machismo in (anti-)globalisation protest. In: Devetak, R. and Hughes, C. (eds.) The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization’s Shadow. Warwick Studies in Globalisation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 203-243. ISBN 9780415425346.

Sullivan, Sian (2007) Conceptualizing glocal organization: from Rhizomes to E=MC squared. In: Kornprobst, M. and Pouliot, V. and Shah, N. and Zaiotti, R. (eds.) Metaphors of Globalisation: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 149-166. ISBN 9780230522268.

Sullivan, Sian (2005) On dance and difference: bodies, movement and experience in Khoesān trance-dancing. In: Haviland, W.A. and Gordon, R.J. and Vivanco, L.A. (eds.) Talking About People: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, pp. 234-241. ISBN 9780072994810.

Sullivan, Sian (2005) 'We are heartbroken and furious!': rethinking violence and the (anti-)globalisation movements. In: Maiguascha, B. and Eschle, C. (eds.) Critical Theories, IR and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement'. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 175-194. ISBN 9780415343916.

Sullivan, Sian (2005) Detail and dogma, data and discourse: food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia. In: Homewood, K. (ed.) Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford, UK: James Currey, pp. 63-99. ISBN 9780852559154.

Sullivan, Sian and Homewood, K. (2003) Natural resources: use, access, tenure and management. In: Bowyer-Bower, T. and Potts, D. (eds.) Eastern and Southern Africa: Development Challenges in a volatile region. Institute of British Geographers’ Developing Areas Research Group. London: Addison Wesley, pp. 118-166. ISBN 9780130264688.

Sullivan, Sian (2003) Protest, conflict and litigation: dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia. In: Berglund, E. and Anderson, D. (eds.) Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege. Oxford, UK: Berghahn, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9781571816962.

Brockington, D. and Sullivan, Sian (2003) Qualitative research. In: Scheyvens, R. and Storey, D. (eds.) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London, UK: Sage, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9780761948902.

Sullivan, Sian (2002) 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape. In: LeBeau, D. and Gordon, R.J. (eds.) Challenges for Anthropology in the ‘African Renaissance’: A Southern African Contribution. Roma, Lesotho: Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho, pp. 255-265. ISBN 9789991659428.

Sullivan, Sian (2002) How sustainable is the communalising discourse of ‘new’ conservation? the masking of difference, inequality and aspiration in the fledgling ‘conservancies’ of Namibia. In: Chatty, D. and Colchester, M. (eds.) Conservation and Mobile Indigenous people: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development. Studies in Forced Migration 10. Oxford, UK: Berghahn, pp. 158-187. ISBN 9781571818423.

Sullivan, Sian (2001) Gender, ethnographic myths and community-based conservation in a former Namibian ‘homeland’. In: Hodgson, D. (ed.) Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist. Oxford, UK: James Currey, pp. 142-164. ISBN 9780852559116.

Sullivan, Sian (2000) Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? Local ‘facts’, global discourse – ‘desertification’ in north-west Namibia. In: Stott, P. and Sullivan, Sian (eds.) Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power. London, UK: Edward Arnold, pp. 15-44. ISBN 9780340761663.

Stott, P. and Sullivan, Sian (2000) Introduction. In: Stott, P. and Sullivan, Sian (eds.) Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power. London, UK: Arnold, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780340761663.

Monograph

Hannis, M. and Sullivan, Sian (2012) Offsetting Nature? Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System. Technical Report. Green House, Weymouth, UK.

Sullivan, Sian (2011) Banking nature? the financialisation of environmental conservation. Working Paper. Open Anthropology Cooperative Press, London, UK.

Sullivan, Sian and Spicer, A. and Bohm, S. (2010) Becoming global (un)civil society: struggles in the global indymedia network. Working Paper. LSE Non-Governmental Public Action Programme, London, UK.

Igoe, J. and Sullivan, Sian (2009) Problematizing neoliberal biodiversity conservation: displaced and disobedient knowledges. Project Report. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK.

Salter, K. and Sullivan, Sian (2008) ‘Shell to Sea’ in Ireland: building social movement potency. Working Paper. LSE Non-Governmental Public Action Programme, London, UK.

Sullivan, Sian (2005) 'Viva Nihilism!’ on militancy and machismo in (anti-)globalisation protest. Working Paper. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Coventry, UK.

Sullivan, Sian (2004) ‘We are heartbroken and furious!’ rethinking violence and the (anti-)globalisation movements (#2). Working Paper. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Coventry, UK.

Sullivan, Sian (2004) ‘We are heartbroken and furious!’ Engaging with violence in the (anti-)globalisation movement(s). Working Paper. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Coventry, UK.

Sullivan, Sian and Brockington, D. (2004) Qualitative methods in globalisation studies: or, saying something about the world without counting or inventing it. Working Paper. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Coventry, UK.

Sullivan, Sian and Homewood, K. (2003) On non-equilibrium and nomadism: knowledge, diversity and global modernity in drylands (and beyond…). Working Paper. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Craven, P. and Sullivan, Sian (2002) Inventory and review of ethnobotanical research in Namibia: first steps towards a central ‘register’ of published indigenous plant knowledge. Technical Report. National Botanical Research Institute, Windhoek, Namibia.

Sullivan, Sian (1996) The ‘communalization’ of former commercial farmland: perspectives from Damaraland and implications for land reform. Technical Report. University of Namibia, Windhoek.

Book

Sullivan, Sian (2012) Financialisation, biodiversity conservation and equity: some currents and concerns. Environment and Development 16. Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network. ISBN 9789675412691.

Stott, P. and Sullivan, Sian, eds. (2000) Political ecology: science, myth and power. London, UK: Arnold. ISBN 9780340761663.

Other

Sullivan, Sian (2011) Green: going beyond ‘the money shot’. Spectacular Environmentalisms.

Homewood, K. and Brockington, D. and Sullivan, Sian (2010) Alternative view of Serengeti road. Nature Publishing Group, London, UK.