Ariadne Collins

Calling all scholars with expertise in the Middle East and Africa! Interested in joining us at the School of International Relations at St Andrews? If so, check out these (permanent) posts: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers - Yolanda Ariadne Collins, Theo Reeves-Evison, Matt Barlow, Lydia E.S. Cole, 2025 Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth's surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come...

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As the search for #criticalminerals ramps up, mining is expanding further beyond the Earth's surface. Read about how mining builds on colonial governance strategies and reshapes Amazon, deep-sea, and outer space environments in our latest paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #MineTheVolume

(Late post) Forests of Refuge was now officially out in the world! Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change.

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Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in ... : Conservation and Society An abstract is unavailable.

Thank you for this careful and thoughtful review of my book @darmenteras.bsky.social. Made my week! journals.lww.com/coas/fulltex...

As renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point Mining operations can damage both communities and the natural world. Yet, the demand for critical minerals to supply the renewable energy industry is rising.

"Until the power structure that disadvantages Indigenous and other historically marginalised groups changes, the negative effects of developing technologies to “save” the planet will continue to disproportionately burden these groups"

My new paper with Rob Fletcher, titled 'From Green to Black: A Voluminous Political Ecology of the Extraction–Conservation Nexus' was just published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers! Check it out open access here: t.co/XrxAFg63Vj

(6)t advocates that the fruits of these oppressive histories be reckoned with through processes of decolonization. Available at www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520... Discount code: UCPSAVE30

(5) Overall, the book situates these challenges in the inattentiveness of global environmental policies to roughly five hundred years of colonial histories that positioned the forests as places of refuge and resistance.

(4) Adopting a multisited ethnographic approach, it takes readers into the halls of policymaking, into conservation development organizations, and into forest-dependent communities most affected by environmental policies and exploitative colonial histories.

(3) I explore REDD+ in Guyana and neighboring Suriname, two highly forested countries in the Amazonian Guiana Shield with low deforestation rates. Yet REDD+ implementation there has been fraught with challenges.

(2) In it, I interrogate the most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting activities: the United Nations–endorsed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative.

(Late post) Forests of Refuge was now officially out in the world! Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change.

Thanks to colleagues at St Andrews IR and others for their feedback and support in developing it. Full text available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It charts ‘A Political Ecology of Atmospheres’ recognizing, as Bryant (1998) did some time ago, that “unequal power relations are as likely to be ‘inscribed’ in the air … as they are to be ‘embedded’ in the land”.

To answer this, the paper combines insights from the natural sciences and from debates on ‘volume’ to argue that one means of understanding these human-environment relations is by paying more attention to atmospheres.

Starting off the new year with a new publication! My article in Political Geography Journal asks, ‘how are roughly five centuries of colonial history in the Guiana Shield (especially Guyana and Suriname) impacting water availability on the other side of the South American continent?’

Forests of Refuge Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the most ambitious global ...

My wonderful colleague Ariadne Collins is now here. Follow her @yolandaariadne.bsky.social for postcolonial environmental research.

She has a new book coming out: "Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance" Polisky 👇

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