Dr Ben Campbell's Outputs (18)

Biogas in Nepal: bringing social contexts of energy innovation into view (2024)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B., & Suji, M. Biogas in Nepal: bringing social contexts of energy innovation into view. In B. Campbell, M. Cameron, & T. Subba (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Himalayas: Environments, Development, Wellbeings. Routledge

Domestic biogas digesters spread rapidly in Nepal from the 1990s as a renewable energy technology that reduced pressure on extracting fuelwood from forests. Very little social science research exists on this energy development story, and the chapter... Read More about Biogas in Nepal: bringing social contexts of energy innovation into view.

Sustainability: a Critical, Comparative and Relational Approach (2024)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (in press). Sustainability: a Critical, Comparative and Relational Approach. In Is the Concept of Sustainability Misleading?. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg

Sustainability was born in “a messy mutualistic politics of care”, but has come to be dominated by economists’ and engineers’ solutions (Stirling 2019:19). Anthropologists’ disciplinary orientation to cultural difference has led in directions of bett... Read More about Sustainability: a Critical, Comparative and Relational Approach.

Biogas in Nepal: A Socio-Technical Perspective of Energy Innovation (2023)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (in press). Biogas in Nepal: A Socio-Technical Perspective of Energy Innovation. In Routledge International Handbook of Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing. Routledge

Handbook Introduction: Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing (2023)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (in press). Handbook Introduction: Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing. In B. Campbell, M. Cameron, & T. Subba (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing. Routledge

Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South? (2021)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B., Cloke, J., & Brown, E. (2021). Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South?. In A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, D. Endres, T. R. Peterson, & S. L. Gomez (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429402302

Social science tools and practitioner experiences help to understand relations of democratic processes to low carbon energy transitions in the Global South. This requires interrogating Euro-centric assumptions about participation, national developmen... Read More about Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South?.

Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation (2014)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2014). Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation. In P. Sillitoe (Ed.), Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region (197-220). Berghahn Journals

Fields of Working Knowledge (2014)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2014). Fields of Working Knowledge. In S. K. Chaudhuri, & S. S. Chaudhuri (Eds.), Fieldwork in South Asia : memories, moments, and experiences (106-121). SAGE Publications

Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation (2014)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2014). Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation. In P. Sillitoe (Ed.), Sustainable development : an appraisal from the Gulf Region (197-220). Berghahn Journals

Culture on Display: metropolitan multiculturalism and the Manchester Nepal festival (2014)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2014). Culture on Display: metropolitan multiculturalism and the Manchester Nepal festival. In G. Toffin, & J. Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds.), Facing globalization in the Himalayas : belonging and the politics of the self (209-232). SAGE Publications

From Remote Area to Thoroughfare of Globalisation: Shifting Territorialisations of Development and Border Peasantry in Nepal (2013)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2013). From Remote Area to Thoroughfare of Globalisation: Shifting Territorialisations of Development and Border Peasantry in Nepal. In J. Smadja (Ed.), Territorial changes and territorial restructurings in the Himalayas (269-285). Adroit Publishers

Pathways of Place Relation: Moving Contours of Belonging in Central Nepal (2011)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2011). Pathways of Place Relation: Moving Contours of Belonging in Central Nepal. In J. Pfaff-Czarnecka, & G. Toffin (Eds.), The politics of belonging in the Himalayas : local attachments and boundary dynamics (222-245). SAGE Publications

Subjectivity and Governance in the Himalayan Environment. (2010)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2010). Subjectivity and Governance in the Himalayan Environment. In M. Lecomte-Tilouine (Ed.), An Exploration of the Categories of Nature and Culture in Asia and the Himalayas (156-189). Social Science Press

How Biotechnology Makes Human Kinship with Wildlife Visible (2010)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2010). How Biotechnology Makes Human Kinship with Wildlife Visible. In M. Bolton, & C. Degnen (Eds.), Animals and Science: from colonial encounters to the biotech industry (196-219). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Beyond cultural models of the environment: linking subjectivities of dwelling and power (2010)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2010). Beyond cultural models of the environment: linking subjectivities of dwelling and power. In A. Guneratne (Ed.), Culture and the environment in the Himalaya (186-203). Routledge

For many decades the idea of ‘cultural model of the environment’ was a valuable tool for anthropologists and other social scientists to contest the bio-physical realism of natural scientists. If we were to understand how diverse human groups interact... Read More about Beyond cultural models of the environment: linking subjectivities of dwelling and power.

Fields of Post-human Kinship (2009)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2009). Fields of Post-human Kinship. In J. Edwards, & C. Salazar (Eds.), European kinship in the age of biotechnology (162-178). Berghahn Journals

Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe (2007)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2007). Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe. In P. Wade (Ed.), Race, ethnicity and nation: perspectives from kinship and genetics (95-124). Berghahn Journals

Across Europe the possibilities of new reproductive technologies have been responded to by national ethical regulatory regimes in markedly different ways. This study moves genetic debates onto a comparative and historical plane, by looking specifical... Read More about Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe.

On 'Loving Your Water buffalo More Than Your Own Mother': Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal (2005)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2005). On 'Loving Your Water buffalo More Than Your Own Mother': Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal. In J. Knight (Ed.), Animals in person : cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacies (79 - 100). Berg

Indigenous views on the Terms of Participation in the Development of Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal (2004)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B. (2004). Indigenous views on the Terms of Participation in the Development of Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal. In A. Bicker, P. Sillitoe, & J. Pottier (Eds.), Investigating local knowledge : new directions, new approaches (149-168). Ashgate Publishing

This chapter addresses the vogue for using indigenous knowledge in development projects. It discusses the diversity in forms of knowledge spoken of by Tamang villagers, noting which kinds of knowledge are perceived as more, and which as less amenable... Read More about Indigenous views on the Terms of Participation in the Development of Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal.