MLA Commons | Sian Sullivan | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/siansullivan/activity/ Activity feed for Sian Sullivan. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:22:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ef7239b18643571a6a73f274597e1a94 Sian Sullivan deposited Towards a metaphysics of the soul and a participatory aesthetics of life: mobilising Foucault, affect and animism for caring practices of existence. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633860/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:53:06 -0500 In his Lectures on Biopolitics (1978-79) Foucault highlighted the contemporary intensification of neoliberal arts of government, by which economic incentive structures are designed to control human behaviour and ‘life itself’ through market transactions framed as enhancing efficiency in the distribution of goods and bads. The human subject of thi…[Read more]

]]> 0 de30d1c65c93c3dd560e9db736ac28c0 Sian Sullivan deposited Book Review, Kinahan, Jill. 2000 'Cattle for Beads: The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on the Namib Coast' https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608754/ Sun, 20 May 2018 08:14:43 -0400 Book review

]]> 0 4cf9a2a1b633537fc2cd4e9b930b1b7a Sian Sullivan deposited Dissonant sustainabilities? Politicising and psychologising antagonisms in the conservation-development nexus. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608733/ Sat, 19 May 2018 07:35:53 -0400 Reflecting on more than twenty years engagement with the idea that development and economic growth are essential for ensuring environmental conservation and sustainability, a key experience for me has been that of dissonance. In this talk I draw on the concept of ‘dissonance’ as explored some decades ago by psychologist Leon Festinger in A The…[Read more]

]]> 0 5892247aed0730e2041ca2e31cd4f737 Sian Sullivan deposited On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world. Review of Tsing, A.L. 2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607254/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:09:59 -0400 The Mushroom at the End of the World by anthropologist Anna Tsing is a heterogeneous ecosystem of a book tracking the socioecological presences of a multiplicitous entity, the matsutake mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake). The outcome of a collaborative ethnographic project, Mushroom, is set to be a classic in the emerging genre of ‘multispecies e…[Read more]

]]> 0 2824e90b40a8202ba4d91aae50cbb96c Sian Sullivan deposited Making nature investable: from legibility to leverageability in fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’ in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589992/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:42:31 -0500 In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently…[Read more]

]]> 0 690daac6ef29a1567c50a5ffa6191310 Sian Sullivan deposited The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589991/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:42:26 -0500 This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.

]]> 0 367f1c5d7cd8f5ddc5031126b59b43df Sian Sullivan deposited The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589990/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:42:25 -0500 This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.

]]> 0 54a384efaa711dddb28f24468b08913e Sian Sullivan deposited Noting some effects of fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’ https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589829/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:58:00 -0500 The contemporary moment of global ecological crisis is also a moment wherein ‘nature’ is being named and framed as ‘natural capital’. This article considers aspects of this fabrication
of ‘natural capital’, drawing attention to three connected processes: [1] commensuration, through which different elements of the natural world are made to cor…[Read more]

]]> 0 89a6814ea6a0c829725991d20aa83f5c Sian Sullivan deposited “Mathematics maybe, but not money”: on balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589827/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:52:24 -0500 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider and compare different ways of using numbers to value aspects of nature-beyond-the-human through case analysis of ecological and natural capital accounting practices in the UK that create standardised numerical-economic values for beyond-human natures. In addition, to contrast underlying o…[Read more]

]]> 0 89c6c1fc1629b9503b877d019d348810 Sian Sullivan deposited The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589792/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:31:38 -0500 This engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.

]]> 0 5881c2aa16d826649c485be63527af66 Sian Sullivan deposited Making nature investable: from legibility to leverageability in fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’ https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589790/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:25:26 -0500 In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently…[Read more]

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