Wisse van Engelen

@wissevanengelen

Environmental geographer/anthropologist with interest in political ecology and STS. Work on nature conservation, disease control, pastoralism & ecotourism, mainly in Southern Africa.

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Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· 6d

The paper draws on the combined fieldwork of the ERC Rewilding team in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area and includes a number of concrete suggestions for rewilders to make their projects more socially-acceptable and just

A map of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area with the locations of the six study sites of the Rewilding team marked.

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· 6d

New paper! In this essay, we propose to complement rewilding’s famous 3 C’s with 3 B’s in order to draw attention to the social dimensions of rewilding (particularly in the rewilding landscapes of Southern Africa)

A graphical representation of the paper’s argument. On the left side it shows a silhouette of a lion (top), a green circle depicting a core area (middle), and three cores connected by green lines representing corridors (bottom). The right shows a silhouette of a cow alongside the lion’s silhouette (top), a core as on the left but with a light green area around it, representing a buffer area (middle), and a protected area network with corridors as on the left, but with black lines representing barriers (bottom). The left and right side are connected by three arrows pointing from the left to the right.

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Jul 14

Faced with the ruins of spruce monocultures, the Harz National Park in Germany stays positive and advertises the ecosystem as a forest transitioning to wilderness. Having hiked here for four days and mostly seeing spruce regeneration I’m not sure how well this going…

Photo of hilly landscape with dead spruce trees and some regeneration of young spruce in the foreground. In the middle is a hunting cabin.

Brochure of the Harz National Park which states “Wald im Wandel zur neuen Wildnis”

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· May 5

Happy to have successfully defended my thesis!

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Apr 26

Highly recommend this one for anyone interested in infrastructure and ecology. Amazingly rich in insights and beautifully written. Would also love to see a sequel on fence ecology @bengoldfarb.bsky.social

Book cover of Ben Goldfarb’s ‘Crossings: How road ecology is shaping the future of our planet’

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Jan 10

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...

Poster showing black-and-white image of pigs, containing details of the workshop (also accessible through the shared link)

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Dec 9

Just learned that this toggle exists. The hard way… 😢

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Oct 27

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

Cover of the article with title of the article ‘Provincializing foot-and-mouth disease: the construction of the african buffalo as disease reservoir in Botswana, 1961-1976’ shown above a monochrome picture of a herd of buffaloes

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Mar 25

Firstly, we present an ethnographic account the practices of conservation and tourism in a nature park in South Africa. Our paper, for example, points to the importance of seemingly unimportant practices such as parking trucks out of sight of tourists

Wisse van Engelen@wissevanengelen· Oct 19

Had some great presentations and discussions on rewilding, wildlife disease and conflict at the Pathways conference this week. Really enjoyed the exchange of insights on foot-and-mouth disease, african swine fever, trypanosomiasis and more!