Jevgeniy Bluwstein

Jevgeniy Bluwstein is a political ecologist and anthropologist, currently Ambizione Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern. He leads a Swiss National Science Foundation project on the juridification of climate politics through activism and litigation, exploring how courts, movements, and the state reshape climate governance and civil liberties. Previously a lecturer at the University of Fribourg, he holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen on the political ecology of conservation in Tanzania, focusing on land and resource conflicts around protected areas. His work has appeared in the Journal of Political Ecology, World Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Geoforum.

Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, examines how the reductive Western view of landscapes reinforces colonization through exclusionary conservation practices, focusing on a case study of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Introducing the term “landscapism,” meaning the “double movement of colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies,” Bluwstein offers a critical perspective, advocating for viewing landscapes through a lens of relationality.

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