Sian Sullivan, environmental anthropologist, cultural geographer and political ecologist, is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University (England). She is particularly interested in intersections and frictions between cultural, natural history and economic values as these relate to beyond-human natures. She has explored these concerns in the volumes Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power (2000), Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments (2016), and Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter (2018). Her recent articles appear in the Journal of Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Conservation Biology, Development and Change, Antipode and Ecosystem Services. Contact her via her website The Natural Capital Myth.
I’m Sian, and I’m a fossil fuel addict: on paradox, disavowal and (im)possibility in changing climate change
In the famous 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and associated programmes, the first step is to recognise that you are indeed addicted. That you are bound to a substance over which you do not have control, such that this substance has become your ‘higher power’, its material qualities and structures of access determining one’s activities and choices in the world.
August 6, 2020
Nature is Being Renamed ‘Natural Capital’ – But is it Really the Planet that will Profit?
But what is “natural capital”? And why use it to refer to “nature”?
September 14, 2016
Is privatising nature a good thing?
This seems to be a pivotal moment in contemporary struggles over how nature is best valued, managed and allocated.
December 6, 2013
The environmentality of ‘Earth Incorporated’ (paper excerpt)
In the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, the villainous business tycoon Domenic Greene, makes a moving (and familiar) speech to potential company sponsors at a spectacularly glamorous, environmental fund-raising gala in Bolivia.
June 24, 2010