
Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
E. Lunstrum, et al. 2025. The Need to Demilitarize Conservation and Protected Areas. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
E. Lunstrum & E. Havice 2025. Introducing Jurisdiction. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Stevens, M., K. Paul, T. Edmo, E. Lunstrum & B. Maxwell 2024. Rethinking Indigenous hunting in national parks. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Bruised Head, M., E. Lunstrum & M. Stevens 2024. Chasing colonization back: Rethinking parks, returning place names, and restoring buffalo medicine – an interview with Ninna Piiksii, Dr. Mike Bruised Head. Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Environment, Politics, and Society.
Millner, N., Bersaglio, B., Lunstrum, E., Enns, C., & Goldman, M. 2023. Grounding drones in political ecology: Understanding the complexities and power relations of drone use in conservation. Global Social Challenges Journal 2(1): 47–67.
Jackman, A., N. Millner, A. M. Cunliffe, Y. Laumonier, E. Lunstrum, J. Paneque-Gálvez & S. A. Wich. 2023. Protecting people and wildlife from the potential harms of drone use in biodiversity conservation: Interdisciplinary dialogues. Global Social Challenges Journal 2(1): 68–83.
Lunstrum, E, N. Givá, F. Massé, F. Mate & P. Jose. 2023. The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3): 1085-1105.
Lunstrum, E., and P. Bose. 2022. Environmental displacement in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(3): 644-653.
Lunstrum, E., N. Givá, and F. Massé. 2021. The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict. The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Massé, F., N. Givá, and E. Lunstrum. 2021. A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa. Geoforum 126 (205-214).
Lunstrum, E., N. Ahuja, B. Braun, R. Collard, & R. Wong. 2021. More‐than‐human and deeply human perspectives on COVID‐19. Antipode.
Stinson, J. & E. Lunstrum. 2021. Biocultural nation making: Biopolitics, cultural-territorial belonging, and national protected areas. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
McKay, C., K. Tran, and E. Lunstrum. 2021. Experiential education and urban conservation: Exploring the benefits of field-based learning. The Journal of Geography 120 (2):61-71.
Lunstrum, E. & N. Givá. 2020. What drives commercial poaching? From poverty to economic inequality. Biological Conservation 245 (108505):1-8.
Ojeda, D., J. Sasser, E. Lunstrum. 2020. Malthus’s specter and the Anthropocene: Towards a feminist political ecology of climate change. Gender, Place, and Culture 27 (3):316-332.
Youdelis, M., R. Nakoochee, C. O’Neil, L. Lunstrum, and R. Roth, 2020. Wilderness revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the wilderness ethic? The Canadian Geographer 64 (2):232-249.
Gore, M. L., P. Braszak, J. Brown, P. Cassey, R. Duffy, J. Fisher, J. Graham, R. Justo-Hanani, A. Kirkwood, E. Lunstrum, C. Machalaba, F. Massé, M. Manguiat, D. Omrow, P. Stoett, T. Wyatt, R. White. 2019. Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development. Nature Sustainability 2(9): 784-786.
Duffy, R., F. Massé, E. Smidt, E. Marijnen, B. Büscher, J. Verweijen, M. Ramutsindela, T. Simlai, L. Joanny, & E. Lunstrum. 2019. Why we must question the militarisation of conservation. Biological Conservation 232: 66-73.
Lunstrum, E. 2018. Capitalism, wealth, and conservation in the age of security: The vitalization of the state. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108 (4): 1022-1037.
Massé, F, E. Lunstrum, & D. Holterman. 2018. Linking green militarization and critical military studies. Critical Military Studies 4 (2):201-221.
Lunstrum, E. and M. Ybarra. 2018. Deploying difference: Security threat narratives and state displacement from protected areas. Conservation & Society 16 (2): 114-124. The article is also published in Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking Parks and People, edited by S. Mollet and T. Kepe, London: Routledge, 51-70.
Büscher, B., R. Fletcher, D. Brockington, C. Sandbrook, W. Adams, L. Campbell, C. Corson, W. Dressler, R. Duffy, N. Gray, G. Holmes, A. Kelly, E. Lunstrum, M. Ramutsindela, K. Shanker. 2017. Doing Whole Earth justice: A reply to Carafo et al. Oryx 51(3): 401.
Lunstrum, E. 2017. Feed them to the lions: Conservation violence goes online. Geoforum 79: 134-143.
Büscher, B., R. Fletcher, D. Brockington, C. Sandbrook, W. Adams, L. Campbell, C. Corson, W. Dressler, R. Duffy, N. Gray, G. Holmes, A. Kelly, E. Lunstrum, M. Ramutsindela, K. Shanker. 2017. Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation and their implications. Oryx 51 (3): 407-410.
Lunstrum, E., P. Bose, and A. Zalik. 2016. Environmental displacement: The common ground of climate change, extraction, and conservation. Area 48 (2): 130-33.
Lunstrum, E. 2016. Green grabs, land grabs, and the spatiality of displacement: Eviction from Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park. Area 48 (2): 142-153.
Massé, F. and E. Lunstrum. 2016. Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers. Geoforum 69: 227-237.
Lunstrum, E. 2015. Conservation meets militarization in Kruger National Park: Historical encounters and complex legacies. Conservation and Society 13 (4): 356-369.
Lunstrum, E. 2014. Green militarization: Anti-poaching efforts and the spatial contours of Kruger National Park. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (4): 816-832.
Bose, P. & E. Lunstrum. 2014. Introduction: Environmentally induced displacement and forced migration. Refuge 29 (2): 5-10.
Lunstrum, E. 2013. Articulated sovereignty: Extending Mozambican state power through the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Political Geography, 36: 1-11.
Lunstrum, E. 2010. Reconstructing history, grounding claims to space: History, memory, and displacement in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. South African Geographical Journal 92 (2): 129-143.
Lunstrum, E. 2009. Terror, territory, and deterritorialization: Landscapes of terror and the unmaking of state power in the Mozambican ‘Civil’ War. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (5): 884-892.
Lunstrum, E. 2008. Mozambique, neoliberal land reform, and the Limpopo National Park. The Geographical Review 98 (3): 339-355.
Book Chapters
Lunstrum, E., and P. Bose. 2023. Environmental displacement in the Anthropocene. In Geographies of Displacement/s, edited by K. Strauss. New York: Routledge. (peer reviewed)
M. Youdelis, D. Douhaibi, D. Holterman, K. Paudel, V. Preston, T. K. Remmel, E. Lunstrum, and J. Mensah. 2021. Out of bounds: The BHER bones of teaching geography across borders. In Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps, edited by W. Giles and L. Miller. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (refereed)
Lunstrum, E. and F. Massé. 2021. Conservation and the Production of wildlife. The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resources Geography edited by M. Himley, E. Havice, and G. Valdivia. New York: Routledge, 359-368. (refereed)
Bose, P. and E. Lunstrum. 2019. What constitutes environmental displacement? Challenges and opportunities of exploring connections across thematically diverse areas. In Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Reflections on the Refugee Research Network, edited by S.L. McGrath & J. Young. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 233-252. (refereed)
Lunstrum, E. 2014. Borders, states, nations: Living political geography. In Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives: Academic Mobility at The Borderland, edited by R. Tremblay and S. Hardwick. Montreal: University of Quebec Press, 131-142. (non-refereed)
Lunstrum, E. 2011. An uncomfortable fit? Transfrontier parks as mega-projects. Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Mega-Engineering Projects, edited by S. Brunn. New York: Springer Press, 1223-1242. (refereed)
Lunstrum, E. 2011. State rationality, development, and the making of sovereign territory: From colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in Mozambique’s Massingir District. Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies, edited by C.F. Ax, C. Brimnes, N.T. Jensen & K. Oslund. Athens,
Other Publications
Lunstrum, E. (In Press.) Book review of Transformative Politics of Nature: Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada, ed. By A. Olive, C. Finegan, and K Beazley, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming in Conservation and Society.
Stevens, M., Lunstrum, E., Faselt, J., Brock, B. L., Kunkel, K. E., Rayapati, J., Andersen, C., Martin, J., Kennedy, J., Hisey, F., Olive, A., & Williamson, M. 2023. Buffalo Reading List
Bruised Head, M., E. Lunstrum & M. Stevens. 2023. Interview with Ninna Piiksii (Dr. Michael Bruised Head). Boise State University ScholarWorks
Millner, N., A. Cunliffe, A. Jackman, Y. Laumonier, E. Lunstrum, M. Mulero-Pazmany & C. Sandbrook. 2023. Responsible drone use in biodiversity conservation: Guidelines for environmental and conservation organisations who use drones. CIFOR and University of Bristol, Cabot Institute for the Environment
E. Lunstrum. 2023. The Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT)-Green Militarization Nexus Provokes Unsustainable Environmental Conflict. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
E. Lunstrum. 2021. Final Research Report for the Project “Transboundary Conservation and the Rescaling of Conservation Practice in Kruger National Park.” Submitted to South African National Parks (SANParks), December.
M. Youdelis, K. Tran, and E. Lunstrum. 2021. Indigenous-led conservation reading list. Conservation Through Reconciliation (CRP) Publication. [full text available at ScholarWorks]
Curley, A., S. Koopman, E. Lunstrum, D. Ojeda, and L. Schamess. 2020. Lessons from the pandemic: How can we put people first in emergent research? Ethical Research in the Age of COVID-19: An AAG/AAAS Participatory Forum
Stinson, J. and E. Lunstrum. 2020. Coronavirus closures could lead to a radical revolution in conservation. The Conversation
Lunstrum, E. et al. 2020. More-than-human geographies of COVID-19. Summer Series on questions of Geoethics and Human Rights highlighted by COVID-19 Conditions
Lunstrum, E. and P. Bond. 2016. Why military and market responses are no way to save species from extinction. The Conversation
Lunstrum, E. 2014. Reorganizing borders, reorganizing mobility: Transfrontier conservation, labor migration, and the transformation of the Mozambican/South African border. Final report submitted to the Mozambican National Directorate for Conservation Areas; South African National Parks; Peace Parks Foundation; and GLTFCA-AHEAD Network.
Massé, F., and E. Lunstrum. 2013. Annotated bibliography on nature-society relations in and of international borders. Refugee Research Network (RRN), Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
Lunstrum, E. 2013. Book review of Campbell, C., ed. 2011. A century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. The Canadian Geographer 51 (1): e15.
Lunstrum, E. and Massé F. 2013. Reorganizing borders, reorganizing mobility: Transfrontier conservation, labor migration, and the transformation of the Mozambican/South African border. Intermediary report submitted to the Mozambican National Directorate for Conservation Areas; South African National Parks; Peace Parks Foundation; and GLTFCA-AHEAD Network.
Lunstrum, E. 2012. Intermediary Research Report – Reorganizing borders, reorganizing mobility. Report submitted to the Mozambican Ministry of Tourism, National Directorate for Conservation Areas (DNAC), Maputo.
Lunstrum, E. 2011. Book review of Tyner, J. 2009. War, violence, and population: Making the body count. New York: Guilford Press. The Geographical Journal 177 (1): 99.
Lunstrum, E. 2011. The changing life of an international border. Animal and Human Health for the Environment and Development – Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (AHEAD-GLTFCA) Newsletter, Vol. 1.
Lunstrum, E. 2009. Cross-border labor migration in the age of transfrontier conservation: Mozambican migrants and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Report submitted to the Mozambican Ministry of Tourism, National Directorate for Conservation Areas (DNAC), Maputo.
Lunstrum, E. 2008. Mozambican Independence, the Civil War, and multiple displacements, Massingir District [Interview Collection]. Aluka Project: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.
Lunstrum, E. 2008. Human-wildlife interaction. Report submitted to the Transfrontier Conservation Unit, Mozambican Ministry of Tourism, Maputo.
Nagar, R., M. Chu, and E. Lunstrum. 2001. Book Review of Afshar, H. and S. Barrientos, eds. 1999. Women, globalization, and fragmentation in developing countries. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. Journal of Asian Studies 60 (3): 817-819.