Elizabeth Lunstrum

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

• Lunstrum, E. Forthcoming. Feed them to the lions: Conservation violence goes online. Geoforum [accepted April 2016].

• 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): 412-153.

• 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): 816-832.

• Lunstrum, E. 2014. Green militarization: Anti-poaching efforts and the spatial contours of Kruger National ParkAnnals 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. 2014. Borders, states, nations: living political geography. Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives: Academic Mobility at the Borderland, edited by R. Tremblay & S. Hardwick. Montreal: University of Quebec Press, 131-142.

• Lunstrum, E. 2013. Articulated sovereignty: Extending Mozambican state power through the Great Limpopo Transfrontier ParkPolitical Geography, 36: 1-11.

• 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.

• 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, OH: Ohio University Press, 239-274.

• Lunstrum, E. 2010. Reconstructing history, grounding claims to space: History, memory, and displacement in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier ParkSouth African Geographical Journal 92 (2): 129-143.

• Lunstrum, E. 2009. Terror, territory, and deterritorialization: Landscapes of terror and theunmaking of state power in the Mozambican ‘Civil’ WarAnnals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (5): 884-892.

• Lunstrum, E. 2008Mozambique, neoliberal land reform, and the Limpopo National ParkThe Geographical Review 98 (3): 339-355.

Other Publications (Including Research Reports):

• 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, 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, labour migration, and the transformation of the Mozambican/South African Border. 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: transfrontier conservation, labour migration, and the transformation of the Mozambican / South African Border. 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 labour 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.

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