Hot money, cold beer: Navigating the vanilla and rosewood export economies in northeastern Madagascar

Zhu, Annah

doi:10.1111/amet.12636

Cited by 30 publications

(36 citation statements)

References 24 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Despite the more recently adopted inclusive language about the threat plants face from IWT in US wildlife law, these amendments were made specifically to better tackle the illegal timber trade (Rosen & Smith, 2010). Within the social sciences, studies of IWT span the fields of green criminology (e.g., Lavorgna, 2014;Ngoc & Wyatt, 2013;Wyatt, 2009), geography (Collard, 2014;Massé, 2018;Moore, 2011;White, 2014;Zhu, 2017Zhu, , 2018, and international politics (Duffy, 2014;Duffy, St John, Büscher, & Brockington, 2015;Elliot, 2007). Legal scholars have also engaged with IWT and the role and efficacy of legislation in combating IWT, with particular attention to transnational organized crime (Lee, 1995;Warchol, 2004;Zimmerman, 2003).…”

Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Illeg Al Wildlife Tr Adementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Legal scholars have also engaged with IWT and the role and efficacy of legislation in combating IWT, with particular attention to transnational organized crime (Lee, 1995;Warchol, 2004;Zimmerman, 2003). With the exception of research on the illegal timber trade (e.g., Zhu, 2017Zhu, , 2018, the social sciences have all but ignored illegal trade in plants. There is a larger literature on how IWT affects species conservation efforts within the field of biodiversity conservation, ranging from advances in forensics (e.g., Dormontt et al, 2015;Wasser et al, 2008), assessing the extent of illegal internet trade in wild species (e.g., Harrison, Roberts, & Hernandez-Castro, 2016;Sajeva, Augugliaro, Smith, & Oddo, 2013), demand reduction efforts (e.g., Verissimo & Wan, 2018), and spatiotemporal dimensions of IWT's impacts on species conservation (e.g., Critchlow et al, 2015).…”

Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Illeg Al Wildlife Tr Adementioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Margulies

Bullough

Hinsley

et al. 2019

Plants People Planet

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Societal Impact Statement A wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of pressing global concern. This review examines how “plant blindness” manifests within policy and research on IWT, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity conservation. We suggest several key points: (a) perhaps with the exception of the illegal timber market, plants are overlooked in IWT policy and research; (b) there is insufficient attention from funding agencies to the presence and persistence of illegal trade in plants; and (c) these absences are at least in part resultant from plant blindness as codified in governmental laws defining the meaning of “wildlife.” Summary This review investigates the ways in which “plant blindness,” first described by Wandersee and Schussler (1999, p. 82) as “the misguided anthropocentric ranking of plants as inferior to animals,” intersects with the contemporary boom in research and policy on illegal wildlife trade (IWT). We argue that plants have been largely ignored within this emerging conservation arena, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity conservation. With the exception of the illegal trade in timber, we show that plants are absent from much emerging scholarship, and receive scant attention by US and UK funding agencies often driving global efforts to address illegal wildlife trade, despite the high levels of threat many plants face. Our article concludes by discussing current challenges posed by plant blindness in IWT policy and research, but also suggests reasons for cautious optimism in addressing this critical issue for plant conservation.

show abstract

Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Illeg Al Wildlife Tr Adementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pl Ant B Lindne Ss and Illeg Al Wildlife Tr Adementioning

confidence: 99%

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Margulies

Bullough

Hinsley

et al. 2019

Plants People Planet

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Cooper () foregrounded the language of “unruly affects” in her examination of homeless individuals in San Francisco who elude US criminal court control, despite legal efforts to contain and render them fixed. As O'Neill and Dua (, 8) argue, “people want out, and they want it now.” Sometimes the unruly or bumptious (Haraway ) is a matter of improvisation and bricolage in relation to divine agency (Bjork‐James ; Elisha ; Friedner ; O'Neill ; Scherz ) or in the face of global capitalism or neoliberalism (Degani ; Gershon ; Hoag ; Ofstehage ; Taylor ; Zhu ), while other times the unruly is a matter of life and death, terror and madness (Burraway ; Luna ). Some of this work used the language of the unruly to point to the contagious spilling over of affect in an attempt to take seriously a range of ways of being in the world.…”

Section: Unruly People and Affectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other work focused on people's seemingly unruly, often “flexible,” behavior in relation to corporate logics and economics (Degani ; Gershon ; Hoag ; Nuhrat ; Ofstehage ; Taylor ; Zhu ). Nuhrat () emphasized how competition for and efforts to control Turkish soccer fans’ “maddening” love of the game highlights fans’ agency in an increasingly repressive political environment.…”

Section: Unruly People and Affectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures

Doughty

2019

American Anthropologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long-standing themes in cultural anthropology-tensions between capture and escape, constraint and resistance, structure and agency-even as it suggests that captivity and its unruly failures can productively draw our attention to new ways of thinking about governance, temporality, scale, affect, political economy, posthumanism, ontology, care, and infrastructure. In this review, I ask: What can and cannot be contained in the contemporary moment, and what is at stake in that containment, or in the seepage that exceeds its borders?The review focuses on key ways anthropologists analyzed these long-standing questions anew in 2018: captivity and the nature of the human, dependency and exile, and violence and borders, and, by contrast, runaway change and uncertainty, unruly people and affects, and seeping waste and toxicity. Overall, I suggest that captivity and seepage provide productive provocations for further study. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, captivity, escape, uncertainty, waste] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa artículos producidos en las cuatro revistas científicas claves de la Asociación Americana de Antropología a lo largo de 2018, e identifica las formas como los antropólogos culturales aceptaron la invitación de Haraway para "quedarse con el problema" a través de un envolvimiento con las lógicas de la captividad y sus fallas. Este trabajo sugiere atención continua a temas de larga data en antropología cultural -tensiones entre captura y escape, restricción y resistencia, estructura y agencia-aun cuando sugiere que esa captividad y sus fallas ingobernables pueden productivamente llamar nuestra atención a nuevas formas de pensar sobre gobernanza, temporalidad, escala, afecto, economía política, posthumanismo, ontología, cuidado e infraestructura.En esta revisión, pregunto: ¿Qué puede y qué no puede ser contenido en el momento contemporáneo, y qué está en juego en esa contención o en la filtración que supera sus fronteras? La revisión se enfoca en las formas claves en que los antropólogos analizaron estas cuestiones de larga data de nuevo en 2018: captividad y la naturaleza de lo humano, dependencia y exilio, y violencia y fronteras y, por contraste, cambio desenfrenado e incertidumbre, personas rebeldes y afectos, y residuos filtrantes y toxicidad. En general, sugiero que la captividad y la filtración proveen provocaciones productivas para estudio posterior. [año en revisión, antropología sociocultural, captividad, escape, incertidumbre, residuos]

show abstract

“…Often, external forces (e.g., market demand) are so strong that farmers have little ability to shape characteristics of the flow, such as production standards of the goods being traded. For smallholders in the Madagascar vanilla case, there is barely any investment for social development which provides no alternative livelihood options [63,66]. While in the Myanmar case land areas were largely controlled by the military power.…”

Section: What Degree Of Agency Do Smallholders Have In Relation To Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures, access to natural resources, and essential livelihoods of smallholders (i.e., those with incomes generated primarily from natural resources on small rural properties). However, the potential benefits and negative impacts from these connections to smallholders' livelihoods and social-ecological effects remain understudied. In this paper, we applied the frameworks of pericoupling and telecoupling (human-nature interactions between adjacent and distant systems, respectively) to systematically investigate how the flows linking smallholder systems to other systems affect their livelihoods, and causing varying economic, social, and environmental effects from case to case. We synthesized 12 cases of smallholder systems around the world that are linked to adjacent and distant systems through flows of goods, people, resources, and/or information. In each case, we summarized smallholders' agency, i.e., capability on the formation or operation of these flows, and the changes on livelihoods on the economic, social, and environment effects. Results suggest that strong smallholder agency is associated more with positive than negative effects. Smallholders with medium to high agency have greater overall well-being within the area of interest. Smallholders integrated in pericoupled systems often have strong agency. Being spillover systems in an intercoupled system (e.g., large-scale agricultural investments) can often cause negative outcomes unless smallholders have additional pericoupling flows. Our findings suggest one potential approach to ending poverty and increasing well-being for smallholders is creating and increasing pericoupling flows to empower smallholders for desired livelihood and social-ecological outcomes.

show abstract

Hot money, cold beer: Navigating the vanilla and rosewood export economies in northeastern Madagascar

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures

Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About