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Jared Margulies is assistant professor of political ecology in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Margulies’s research explores the politics of biodiversity conservation and illegal wildlife trade. His past research in South India focused on how certain governmental strategies aiming to reduce forms of conflict between humans and animals often exacerbate them, and why this is so. At the Rachel Carson Center, he will be working to complete his first book, The Succulent Subject: A Political Ecology of Plants, Desire, and Illicit Trade (University of Minnesota Press). Margulies’s research has been supported by the Fulbright-Nehru program and he has published in journals including World Development, Political Geography, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environmental Humanities, and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. He received his PhD in Geography and Environmental Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2017.
RCC Research Project: The Succulent Subject: A Political Ecology of Plants, Desire, and Illicit Trade
Selected Publications:
- with F. Massé. (2020). “The Geopolitical Ecology of Conservation: The Emergence of Illegal Wildlife Trade as National Security Interest and the Re-shaping of US Foreign Conservation Assistance.” World Development 132, 104958.
- “On Coming into Animal Presence with Photovoice.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2, no. 4 (2019): 850–873.
- Margulies, J. D. (2019). “Making the 'Man-Eater': Tiger Conservation as Necropolitics.” Political Geography 69 (2019): 150–161.
- with R.W. Wong & and R. Duffy. “The Imaginary ‘Asian Super Consumer’: A Critique of Demand Reduction Campaigns for the Illegal Wildlife Trade.” Geoforum 107 (2019): 216–219.
- with K. K. Karanth. “The Production of Human-Wildlife Conflict: A Political Animal Geography of Encounter.” Geoforum 95 (2018): 153–164.