JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

Koot, S., Hitchcock, R. and Gressier, C. (2019). Belonging, Indigeneity, Land and Nature in Southern Africa under Neoliberal Capitalism. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (2). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/45/2?nav=tocList

Koot, S., Thakholi, L. and Büscher, B. (2024). Fallen from grace? Debating the legacy and state of southern African conservation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231222145

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Koot, S. and //Khumûb, M. (forthcoming). History and social complexities for San at Tsintsabis resettlement farm, Namibia. In: U. Dieckmann, S. Lendelvo and S. Sullivan (Eds.), Etosha-Kunene Histories. University of Namibia Press.

Buiskool, R. and Koot, S. (forthcoming). COVID-19 and the Limits of Community-Based Ecotourism as a Sustainable Livelihood Diversification Strategy: The Case of the Indigenous Karo of Batu Katak, North Sumatra, Indonesia. In W. Babchuk and R. Hitchcock (Eds.), Tourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples. Lexington Books.

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Thakholi, L., Koot, S. and Büscher, B. (2024). Introduction: Fallen from grace? The legacy and state of Southern African conservation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7 (1): 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231222145

Koot, S., Büscher, B. and Thakholi, L. (2024). The new green apartheid? Race, capital and logics of enclosure in South Africa’s wildlife economy. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7 (1): 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221110438

Büscher, B., Koot, S. and Thakholi, L. (2024). Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7 (1): 50-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211062002

2023

Koot, S., Grant, J., Puckett, F., //Khumûb, M., Mushavanga, T., Mushavanga, D., ≠Oma Tsamkxao, L., /Ui Kunta, S., Dommerholt, T., Katsimpri, E., Gressier, C., Van der Wulp, C., Paksi, A. and Castelijns, E. (2023 [for 2020]). The limitations of research codes and contracts: Ethnography and agency among San hunter-gatherers of southern Africa. Hunter Gatherer Research 6 (1-2): 147-168. 2023 – Koot et al. – The limitations of research codes and contracts

Koot, S., Hebinck, P. and Sullivan, S. (2023). Conservation science and discursive violence: A response to two rejoinders. Society & Natural Resources 36 (5): 585-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2064023

Koot, S., Hebinck, P. and Sullivan, S. (2023). Science for success – a conflict of interest? Researcher position and reflexivity in socio-ecological research for CBNRM in Namibia. Society & Natural Resources 36 (5): 554-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1762953

Koot, S. and Veenenbos, F. (2023). The spectacle of inclusive female anti-poaching: Heroines, green militarization and invisible violence. Geoforum 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103806

Koot, S., Grant, J., //Khumûb, M., Fernando, K., Mushavanga, T., Dommerholt, T., Gressier, C., Pienaar, D., /Ui Kunta, S., Puckett, F., Paksi, A., Moeti, S., ≠Oma Tsamkxao, L., Steenkamp, L., Hitchcock, R., Maruyama, J., Gordon R. and Mushavanga, D. (2023). Research codes and contracts do not guarantee equitable research with Indigenous communities. Nature: Ecology and Evolution 7: 1543-1546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02101-0

Koot, S. (2023). The responsibility to consume: Excessive “environmentourism” against rhinoceros extinction in South Africa. In M. Demian, M. Fumanti and C. Lynteris and  (Eds.). Anthropology and Responsibility (pp. 37-56). London: Routledge. 2023 – Koot – The responsibility to consume

Koot, S. (2023). Articulations of inferiority: From pre-colonial to post-colonial paternalism in tourism and development among the indigenous Bushmen of southern Africa. History and Anthropology 34 (2): 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2020.1830387

Thakholi, L. and Koot, S. (2023). Black belonging, White belonging: Primitive accumulation in South Africa’s private nature reserves. Antipode 55 (3): 935-957. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12913

Ochieng, A., Koh, N. and Koot, S. (2023). Compatible with conviviality? Exploring African ecotourism and sport hunting for transformative conservation. Conservation and Society 21 (1): 38-47. https://conservationandsociety.org.in/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2023;volume=21;issue=1;spage=38;epage=47;aulast=Ochieng;type=3

2022

Van Adrichem, C., Buijtendijk, H., Eijgelaar, E., Duineveld, M., Koens, K., Koot, S., Fletcher, R. and Huijbens, E. (2022). Radicaal duurzaam toerisme: Een trend om mee te dealen. In: T. Vermeulen, D. Korteweg Maris, M. Rooijackers, J. Heslinga, A. ten Velde and K. van Wijk (Eds.), Trendrapport toerisme, recreatie en vrije tijd 2022 (pp. 366-371). Breda: NRIT and CELTH. 2022 – Van Adrichem et al. – Radicaal duurzaam toerisme

Wieckhardt, C., Koot, S. and Karimasari, N. (2022). Environmentality, Green Grabbing, and Neoliberal Conservation: The Ambiguous Role of Ecotourism in the Green Life Privatised Nature Reserve, Sumatra, Indonesia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 30 (11): 2614-2630. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2020.1834564

Büscher, B., Massarella, K., Coates, R., Deutsch, S., Dressler, W., Fletcher, R., Immovili, M. and Koot, S. (2022). The convivial conservation imperative: Exploring “biodiversity impact chains” to support structural transformation. In I. Visseren-Hamakers and M. Kok (Eds.), Transforming Biodiversity Governance (pp. 244-263). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856348.013

2021

Ni’am, L., Koot, S. and Jongerden, J. (2021). Selling captive nature: Lively commodification, elephant encounters, and the production of value in Sumatran ecotourism, Indonesia. Geoforum 127: 162-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.018

Koot, S. (2021). Enjoying extinction: Philanthrocapitalism, jouissance, and ‘excessive environmentourism’ in the South African rhino poaching crisis. Journal of Political Ecology 28 (1): 804-822. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2984

Koot, S. and Fletcher, R. (2021). Donors on tour: Philanthrotourism in Africa. Annals of Tourism Research 89. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738321000906

Massarella, K., Nygren, A., Fletcher, R., Büscher, B., Kiwango, W., Komi, S., Krauss, J., Bukhi Mabele, M., McInturff, A., Thomaz Sandroni, L., Alagona, P., Brockington, D., Coates, R., Duffy, R., Ferraz, K., Koot, S., Marchini, S., Reis Percequillo, A. (2021). Transformation beyond conservation: How critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49: 79-87. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343521000440

2020

Koot, S. (2020). Force fields surrounding trophy hunting in Namibia: Generating hope with economic benefits for the San of Namibia? In E. Rasch, O. Salemink, B. Büscher and M. Köhne (Eds.), Engaged encounters: Thinking about forces, fields and friendships with Monique Nuijten (pp. 77-81). Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers: https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1

Fletcher, R., Büscher, B., Massarella, K. and Koot, S. (2020). Ecotourism and conservation under COVID-19 and beyond. Atlas Tourism and Leisure Review 2: 42-50: 2020 – Fletcher et al – Ecotourism and Conservation under COVID19

Fletcher, R., Büscher, B., Massarella, K. and Koot, S. (2020). ‘Close the tap!’: COVID-19 and the need for convivial conservation. Journal of Australian Political Economy 85: 200-211: https://www.ppesydney.net/content/uploads/2020/06/28_Fletcher-et-al.pdf

Neimark, B., Childs, J., Nightingale, A., Cavanaugh, C., Sullivan, S., Benjaminsen, T., Batterbury, S., Koot, S. and Harcourt, W. (2020, reprint of a 2019 paper). Speaking power to ‘Post-Truth’: Critical political ecology and the new authoritarianism. In J. McCarthy (Ed.), Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era (pp. 313-323). London: Routledge. 2019 – Neimark et al – Speaking Power to Post Truth

Koot, S., Ingram, V. and Bijsterbosch, M. (2020). State paternalism and institutional degradation at Treesleeper Eco-camp: Community-based tourism and the loss of sovereignty among Bushmen in Namibia. Development Southern Africa 37 (3): 432-445: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1674636

Koot, S. and Fletcher, R. (2020). Popular Philanthrocapitalism? The Potential and Pitfalls of Online Empowerment in ‘Free’ Nature 2.0 Initiatives. Environmental Communication 14 (3): 287-299: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2019.1649707

2019

Koot, S. Hitchcock, R. and Gressier, C. (2019). Belonging, Indigeneity, Land and Nature in Southern Africa under Neoliberal Capitalism: An Overview. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (2): 341-355: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2019.1610243

Van der Wulp, C. and Koot, S. (2019). Immaterial Indigenous Modernities in the Struggle against Illegal Fencing in the N≠a Jaqna Conservancy, Namibia: Genealogical Ancestry and ‘San-ness’ in a ‘Traditional Community’. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (2): 375-392: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2019.1605693

Koot, S. and Büscher, B. (2019). Giving land (back)? The meaning of land in the indigenous politics of the South Kalahari Bushmen land claim, South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 42 (2): 357-374: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03057070.2019.1605119

Koot, S. Film review of When lambs become lions (2019). Kasbe, J. (dir.). 2018. 79 minute documentary film. USA: Kasbe Films / The Documentary Group. www.whenlambs.com. Journal of Political Ecology 26 (1): https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2109/

Koot, S. and Hitchcock, R. (2019). In the way: Perpetuating land dispossession of the indigenous Hai//om and the collective action lawsuit for Etosha National Park and Mangetti West, Namibia. Nomadic Peoples 23 (1): 55-77: 2019 – Koot and Hitchcock – In the way

Neimark, B., Childs, J., Nightingale, A., Cavanaugh, C., Sullivan, S., Benjaminsen, T., Batterbury, S., Koot, S. and Harcourt, W. (2019). Speaking power to ‘Post-Truth’: Critical political ecology and the new authoritarianism. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109 (2): 613-623. 2019 – Neimark et al – Speaking Power to Post Truth

Koot, S. (2019). The limits of economic benefits: Adding social affordances to the analysis of trophy hunting of the Khwe and Ju/’hoansi in Namibian community-based natural resource management. Society & Natural Resources 32 (4): 417-433: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2018.1550227

Koot, S. (2019). Autoethnography and power in a tourism researcher position: A self-reflexive exploration of unawareness, memories and paternalism among Namibian Bushmen. In H. Andrews, L. Dixon and J. Takamitsu (Eds.), Tourism ethnographies: Ethics, methods, application and reflexivity (pp. 52-66). London: Routledge. 2019 – Koot – Autoethnography and power in a tourism researcher position

Koot, S. (2019, reprint of a 2016 paper). Contradictions of capitalism in the South African Kalahari: Indigenous Bushmen, their brand and baasskap in tourism. In A. Carr, L. Ruhanen, M. Whitford and B. Lane (Eds.), Sustainable tourism and indigenous peoples (pp. 145-160). London: Routledge: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2016.1158825

2018

Koot, S. (2018). The Bushman brand in southern African tourism: An indigenous modernity in a neoliberal political economy. Senri Ethnological Studies 99, 231-250: 2018 – Koot – The Bushman Brand in Southern African Tourism

Koot, S. (2018). Whiteness and nature conservation in Zimbabwe. Book review of The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe, by Yuka Suzuki. Journal of Southern African Studies 44 (4): 757-758: 2018 – Koot – Whiteness and nature conservation in Zimbabwe (book review)

2017

Büscher, B., Van den Breemer, R,. Fletcher, R. and Koot, S. (2017). Authenticity and the contradictions of the ‘ecotourism script’: Global marketing and local politics in Ghana. Critical Arts 31 (4), 37-52: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2017.1386697

Koot, S. (2017). Old wine in a new bottle: Seeking sustainability among the Earth Keepers. Film review of Down to Earth, by Rolf Winters and Renata Heinen. Current Anthropology 58 (5), 658-686: 2017 – Koot – Old wine in a new bottle (film review)

Koot, S. and Van Beek, W.E.A. (2017). Ju/’hoansi lodging in a Namibian Conservancy: CBNRM, tourism and increasing domination. Conservation and Society 15 (2), 136-146: https://conservationandsociety.org.in/downloadpdf.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=2;spage=136;epage=146;aulast=Koot;type=2

Koot, S. (2017). Poor picking: A response to Keyan Tomaselli and a plea for critical research in neo-liberal times. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 25 (8), 1197-1200: 2017 – Koot – Poor picking  (To be able to understand ‘Poor Picking’, please also see Koot (2016), Contradictions of capitalism in the Kalahari and Tomaselli (2017), Picking on the poor.)

Büscher, B., Koot, S. and Nelson, I. (2017). Introduction. Nature 2.0: New Media, Online Activism and the Cyberpolitics of Environmental Conservation. Geoforum 79, 111-113: 2017 – Büscher, Koot and Nelson – Introduction Nature 2.0

Koot, S. (2017). Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism. In H. Kopnina and E. Shoreman-Ouimet (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (pp. 315-326). London: Routledge: 2017 – Koot – Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity

Koot, S. (2017). Ecotourism. In J. Urbanik and C. Johnston (Eds.), Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence (pp. 118-120). Denver: ABC-CLIO: 2017 – Koot – Ecotourism

Koot, S. (2017). Poaching. In J. Urbanik and C. Johnston (Eds.), Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence (pp. 273-275). Denver: ABC-CLIO: 2017 – Koot – Poaching

2016

Koot, S. (2016). Perpetuating power through autoethnography: My unawareness of research and memories of paternalism among the indigenous Hai//om in Namibia. Critical Arts 30 (6), 840-854: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2016.1263217

Koot, S., Van Beek, W. and Diemer, J. (2016). The Khwe of Namibia: Foragers between game, tourism and politics. Anthropos 111 (2), 497-511: 2016 – Koot, Van Beek and Diemer – The Khwe of Namibia

Koot, S. (2016). Contradictions of capitalism in the South African Kalahari: Indigenous Bushmen, their brand and baasskap in tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 24 (8&9), 1211-1226: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2016.1158825

Koot, S. (2016). Structural Belonging. Review of At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging, by Catie Gressier. Oxford: Berghahn Books 2015. Current Anthropology, 57 (6): 844-845: 2016 – Koot – Structural belonging (book review)

Koot, S. (2016). Review of Creating Africas: Struggles over nature, conservation and land, by Knut G. Nustad. London: Hurst Publishers, 2015. African Affairs, 115 (460): 580-581: 2016 – Koot – Creating Africas (book rev.)

2015

Koot, S. (2015). White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen. Anthropology Southern Africa 38 (1&2), 4-15: 2015 – Koot – White Namibians in tourism

2013

Koot, S. (2013). Dwelling in tourism: Power and myth amongst Bushmen in southern Africa (PhD dissertation). Leiden: African Studies Centre: 2013 – Koot – Dwelling in tourism – ASC-54 Koot NEW and 2013 – Koot – Dwelling in tourism book cover – 198556-L-os-ASC

2012

Hüncke, A., and Koot, S. (2012). The presentation of Bushmen in cultural tourism: Tourists’ images of Bushmen and the tourism provider’s presentation of (Hai//om) Bushmen at Treesleeper Camp, Namibia. Critical Arts 26 (5), 671-689: 2012 – Huncke and Koot – The presentation of Bushmen in cultural tourism

Koot, S. (2012). Treesleeper Camp: A case study of a community tourism project in Tsintsabis, Namibia. In W. Van Beek and A. Schmidt (Eds.), African Hosts & their Guests: Cultural Dynamics of Tourism (pp. 153-175). Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey: 2012 – Koot – Treesleeper Camp (book chapter)