Wisse van Engelen
PhD researcher at University of Cologne & University of Twente | Studying wildlife conservation & disease control in Botswana
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- On the 21st and 22nd of January we are streaming the keynote lectures of the workshop that we are organizing on ‘Un/Bordering Animal Health’. More info and the Webex link can be found here: geo.uni-halle.de/humangeo-bei...
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- Just learned that this toggle exists. The hard way… 😢
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- Reposted by Wisse van EngelenCall for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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- First article from my PhD is out! ‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social
- Crucially the motion notes that it “does not apply to recreational or tourist hunting” - a practice that exactly targets older animals
- the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies. www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
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- Thesis cover in the making… by the wonderful Becky Arrendondo www.instagram.com/stories/becc...
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- One thing that has surprised me (in a bad way) as someone new to publishing is how terrible the copy-editing service of scientific journals is. Without tracking the changes they just modify your text, and instead of improving it they introduce errors. You’d think proper copy-editing is the minimum
- Although it has a bad headline, this article covers a very interesting issue: the controversial promotion of regenerative grazing by international conservation organizations news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
- A huge environmental disaster has taken place (perhaps the biggest tailings dam catastrophe ever?) and we are not supposed to know about it www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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- “both the human and slime mould cases illustrate how memory can become decoupled from individual learning, instead becoming accessible to others through environmental structures.” Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’
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- In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇
- New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology: rewilding.de/shadows-with...
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- This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Cool photo project on animals and infrastructure. I find especially the photo series of the ecoducts beautiful marinacaneve.com/On-the-groun...
- This looks like a really cool new book with an amazing collection of five (!) chapters on human-tick relations in Finland. More than enough to delve into this weekend 😊 brill.com/display/titl...
- As Val Plumwood argued, place-based environmental action often overlooks the fact that we live in a connected world, where ecologies and economies in the Global North are supported by ‘shadow places’ in the Global South.
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- Very cool new environmental anthropology project by Diego Menestrey to start here at the University of Cologne. On the political ecology of bush encroachment in Namibia gssc.uni-koeln.de/forschung-1/...
- “radical rewilding and conventional agriculture are so often starkly contrasted across an almost Cartesian divide, yet here we find a practice that segues organically into both.” Interesting piece on ‘agricultural rewilding’👇
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- Really nice documentary about coexistence with rats, including some refreshing perspectives on their role in disease transmission: youtu.be/ghaiiiGmAsY?...
