Prof Rosaleen Duffy - personal details

Role: Professor of International Politics

Email: Rc'b.SS5xHANNa$4b5T=S'jSRxbTxA6v-wp`0R9BL/_a|#NhVZo6e1{xPWFsKOI?@2%i*ugCmdblQt=n!cMSDJ+Yr}'3G~y$zfXqA8k4H^.Uj75ET

Tel: 0161 275 1282

Location: Arthur Lewis Building-4.026
School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Social Sciences

I am Professor of International Politics, and I held posts at Edinburgh University and Lancaster University before joining Manchester in 2005.

I take a deliberately interdisciplinary approach to understanding conservation; my work is located at the intersection between international relations, geography and sociology. My work examines the debates on global environmental governance, especially the roles of international NGOs, international treaties, international financial institutions and epistemic communities. I am particularly interested in how global environmental management regimes play out on the ground, how they are contested, challenged and resisted by their encounter at the local level.  I focus on wildlife conservation, tourism and illicit trading networks to understand the local level complexities of global environmental management. I have undertaken a number of ESRC funded research projects on Peace Parks, gemstone mining and national parks,and on ecotourism (more details are under 'research interests'. My most recent book, Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong (Yale University Press, 2010) examines how global dynamics of wealth and poverty shape conservation outcomes. More information is on my personal wesbite 'Conservation Politics'  http://conservationpolitics.wordpress.com/

I am a member of the Society and Environment Research Group, which is an inter-disciplinary network of researchers drawn from the School of Environment and Development and the School of Social Sciences at Manchester University. Research within the group involves analysing the complex relationships involved in environmental change. In particular, SERG examines the power relations embedded within environment-society interactions in diverse places and contexts.

I run a Conservation and Development reading group with Dr Daniel Brockington, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).

Degrees:

• BA (Hons) Lancaster University;
• MA Manchester University,
• PhD Lancaster University.