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287 Contributors Dan Brockington is a professor of conservation and development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester , UK. His research covers diverse aspects of conservation, development, and celebrity. His recent books are Celebrity and the Environment (2009) and Nature Unbound (2008, with Rosaleen Duffy and Jim Igoe). Bram Büscher is an associate professor of environment and sustainable development at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam , the Netherlands, and visiting associate professor at the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa (2013). Catherine Corson is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on neoliberal conservation, foreign aid politics, international environmental governance, institutional ethnography, and political ecology. She received her doctorate in 2008 from the University of California at Berkeley, and her dissertation analyzed how state and nonstate actors negotiate US environmental foreign aid to Madagascar across local, national, and international scales. Currently, she works with an international team to study, using collaborative event ethnography, the coproduction of conservation knowledge and relations of environmental governance. Prior to her academic career, she worked for ten years as an environment and development policy analyst and consultant. Wolfram Dressler loves studying the particular and the odd in forest settings, things that are unique, deserving of attention, and deserving of survival. He has done so in settings as diverse as Laos, the Philippines, the Caribbean, South Africa, and the western Arctic. He is an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Land and Environment at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the author of Old Thoughts in New Ideas: State Conservation Measures, Livelihood and Development on Palawan Island. 288 • Contributors Robert Fletcher is an associate professor of natural resources and sustainable development at the United Nations–mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. His research, conducted in North, Central, and South America , explores how culturally specific approaches to human-environment relations inform patterns of resource use and the contestation among these. He is the author of Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (2014). Jim Igoe is an associate professor of anthropology and a Mellon Fellow in the Institute of the Humanities and Global Culture at the University of Virginia. His research concerns relationships between indigenous peoples and national parks, the neoliberalization of nature conservation, and the anthropology of noncapitalist alternatives. He is the author of Conservation and Globalization: A Study of Indigenous Peoples and National Parks from East Africa to South Dakota and a proud member of the VIVA Collective. Larry Lohmann has been an environmental activist in Thailand and Europe for over twenty-five years. He works with the Corner House, a small advocacy and research organization based in Dorset, UK. Ken MacDonald teaches in the Department of Geography, the program in International Development Studies, and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests focus on the cultural politics of development, the social construction of vulnerability , the organizational and institutional politics of biodiversity conservation policy and practice, and transnational geographies of consumption. Recent publications include essays in Cultural Geographies, Geoforum, and Conservation and Society. His current book project, Geographies of Intervention: Postcolonialism and the Politics of Development in Northern Pakistan, is based on twenty years of fieldwork in Pakistan’s Northern Areas. Frank Matose is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. His interests are in natural resource commons with a particular focus on southern Africa, placing emphasis on the intersection of local people, the state, capital, forest conservation, and protected areas. Interests in these areas are informed by intellectual projects around environmental governance, social justice, knowledge, and power. He recently coedited the book Coping amidst Chaos: Studies on Adaptive Collaborative Management from Zimbabwe with Alois Mandondo and Ravi Prabhu. [3.238.87.31] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 20:17 GMT) Contributors • 289 Sian Sullivan is professor of environment and culture at the School of Society, Enterprise and Environment at Bath Spa University, UK. She has conducted long-term research on changing people–landscape relationships in northwest Namibia, as well as on the politics of subjectivity in the global justice movement. She is currently studying financialization processes in biodiversity conservation. She is coeditor of Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power (with Edward Arnold) and has published in...