Jevgeniy Bluwstein
jevgeniy.bluwstein@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 9255
+41 26 300 9255
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1162-5028
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Senior Researcher,
Department of Geosciences
PER 14 bu. 3.327.1
Ch. du Musée 4
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Research interests:
- political ecology of conservation:
- land and resource conflicts
- conservation governmentality and biopolitics
- ecotourism
- conservation science and expertise
- critical landscape studies
- decolonization of conservation
- political ecology of climate mitigation:
- socio-ecological transformation
- climate movements, activism and civil disobedience
- climate futures and ecoapartheid
- climate litigation and the juridification of climate politics
Teaching:
- political ecology (see Syllabus here)
- environmental geography
- political geography
- environmental history
- qualitative methods in social research
- field course
Associate and book review editor - Geographica Helvetica
Google Scholar | ResearchGate | @jevgeniy_b
Research and publications
- 1) Journal articles
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- 2) Book chapters
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- 3) PhD thesis
Bluwstein, J. 2018: “Biopolitical Landscapes. Governing People and Spaces through Conservation in Tanzania”, Unpublished PhD thesis, defended 2018.03.13, University of Copenhagen
- 4) Book reviews
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- 5) Essays & Op-eds
Bluwstein, J. (2022). "People Live Here. Why are Ngorongoro's Maasai at risk of being evicted again? Tanzania's conservation-tourism industrial complex wants them out". Africa is a Country [translated in French and republished at AfriqueXXI]
Loveless, S. and Bluwstein, J. (2022) "Marshall Urban Firestorm: On the Paradox of Greening America’s Suburbia" EnviroSociety
Bluwstein, J., Brehony, P., Lund, J.F. 2018: „ Why conservation success stories in Tanzania need a closer look”. 2018.11.01, The Conversation
de Rosa, S.P. and Bluwstein, J. 2017: “Why “Warning to Humanity” gets the socio-ecological crisis (and its solutions) wrong”. 2017.11.23, ENTITLE
Lund, J.F., Bluwstein, J., Ronan, A., Rutt, R. 2017: “Ende Gelände: Exposing the climate hypocrisy of Western European democracies”. 2017.09.07, ENTITLE
Bluwstein, J. and Rutt. R., 2017: “The Flint Water Crisis: Quests for Justice and Mechanisms of Suppression”. 2017.08.17, ENTITLE
Lund, J.F., Bluwstein, J., Mabele, M.B., Scheba, A., Sungusia, E. 2016: ”Are conservation policies a driver of deforestation in Tanzania?”. 2016.11.15, Mongabay
- 6) Policy letters
Marks, N., Homewood, K., Bluwstein, J., Lund, J.F., et al. 2017: ”Realising the Promise of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas”. ESPA Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation, Policy Brief, November 2017, https://www.espa.ac.uk/results/policy-practice-briefs/realising-promise-tanzanias-wildlife-management-areas
Homewood, K., Bluwstein, J., Lund, J.F. et al. 2015: "The economic and social viability of Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas". Copenhagen Centre for Development Research, Policy Brief No. 04, October 2015 www.ucl.ac.uk/pima/outputs.htm#other