Research
Current research focus is on the effects of rural and urban sustainable development projects. This includes examining how these projects effect the livelihoods of people, if they contribute to migration either directly and/or indirectly as well as the long and short-term ecological impacts on their respective environments. Emphasis is placed on different rural sustainable development projects and sustainable city planning/ development and the way these two sites are linked with different actors: migrants, material flows, investment, and state (public/private) authorities. This current research seeks to bring together different literature from anthropology, migration, development, and gentrification to investigate connections between new trends in rural and urban development.
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Dunlap A. (2018) Wind Energy: Toward a “Sustainable Violence” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Uncovering the relationship between extractivism, counterinsurgency, and the green economy. NACLA 50.
Dunlap A. (2018) Insurrection for Land, Sea and Dignity: Resistance and Autonomy against Wind Energy in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico, Journal of Political Ecology 25: 1-22.
Brock A and Dunlap A. (2018) Normalising Corporate Counterinsurgency: engineering consent, managing resistance and greening destruction around the Hambach coal mine and beyond Political Geography 62: 33-47. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629817300835
Dunlap A. (2017e) The ‘Solution’ is now the ‘Problem:’ Wind Energy, Colonization and the ‘Genocide-Ecocide Nexus’ in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. The International Journal of Human Rights: 1-25.
Dunlap A. (2017d) From Primitive Accumulation to Modernized Poverty: Examining Flush-toilets through the Four Invaluation Processes. Forum for Social Economy 47: 1-21.
Dunlap, Alexander. (2017c) “’A Bureaucratic Trap:’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Wind Energy Development in Juchitán, Mexico” at Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: 1-21.
Dunlap Alexander. (2017b) “'The town is surrounded:' From Climate Concerns to Life under Wind Turbines in La Ventosa, Mexico,” Human Geography, 10(2): 16-36
Dunlap, Alexander. (2017a) Counterinsurgency for wind energy: the Bíi Hioxo wind park in Juchitán, Mexico. The Journal of Peasant Studies: 1-23.
Hall, John, Alexander Dunlap and Nelson-Mitchell, Joe. (2016) “Subreption, Radical Institutionalism, and Economic Evolution,” PANOECONOMICUS, 63, (4): 475-492. DOI: 10.2298/PAN1604475H
Dunlap, Alexander (2016). 'Counterinsurgency: Remembering Where Prevention Comes From and Its Implications,' in Critical Studies on Terrorism, 9 (2): 380-385 Comment and Debate.
Dunlap, Alexander. (2015) 'The Expanding Techniques of Progress: Agricultural Biotechnology and UN-REDD+', Review of Social Economy, 73, (1): 89-112.
Dunlap, Alexander and Fairhead, James. (2014) 'The Militarization and Marketization of Nature: An Alternative Lens to Climate-conflict', Geopolitics, Special Issue: Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security, 19 (4):937-961.
Dunlap, Alexander. (2014)'Permanent War: Grids, Boomerangs, and Counterinsurgency', Anarchist Studies, 22 (2):53-77
Dunlap, Alexander (2013). 'From Primitive Accumulation to Modernized Poverty: The Strategies of Roads and Flush-toilets' Master thesis, 麻豆传媒社区入口.
Book Chapters:
Dunlap, Alexander and Fairhead, James. (2015) 'The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to Climate-conflict.' In Jan Selby and Clemens Hoffman (eds), Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security. London: Routledge
Dunlap, Alexander. (2014) 'Power: Foucault, Dugger and Social War.' In The BASTARD Chronicles: Social War. Berkeley: Ardent Press
Book Reviews:
Dunlap, Alexander (2017). Review of Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial extraction and the Global South,” by Nicholas Hildyard, London: Manchester University Press, Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements 8(2)
Dunlap, Alexander. (2017) “The Genocide Machine Continues.” Review of Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide, By Damian Short, London: Zed Books, Capitalism Nature Socialism.
Dunlap, Alexander. (2016) “Green transformations or rebranding dystopia?” Review of The Politics of Green Transformations, edited by Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach and Peter Newell. Oxford, Routledge, Capitalism Nature Socialism 27(2): 141-143.
Dunlap, Alexander. (June. 2016) ‘Green Transformations or Rebranding Dystopia?’ Review of The Politics of Green Transformations, edited by Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach and Peter Newell. Oxford, Routledge
Dunlap, Alexander. (Dec. 2012) The propaganda society: promotional culture and politics in global context (2011) edited by Sussman, Gerald. Journal of Economic Issues, 46 (4): 1090-1092
Dunlap, Alexander. (2012) The myth of development: non-viable economies and the crisis of civilization by Rivero, Oswaldo De. Journal of Economic Issues 46 (1): 247-249
Dunlap, Alexander. (Dec 2011) Why doesn't microfinance work? The destructive rise of local neoliberalism (2010) by Bateman, Milford. Journal of economic issues, 45 (4): 1012-1014
Dunlap, Alexander. (Dec. 2011) Green economics: confronting the ecological crisis (2011) by Hahnel, Robin. Journal of Economic Issues 45(4): 1020-1022
Newspaper, Magazine and Online Articles:
Dunlap, Alexander. (2017) "Spreading Sacrifice Areas in Anthropology," Standplaats Wereld (November). Availible at: http://standplaatswereld.nl/2017/11/24/spreading-sacrifice-areas-in-anthropology/
Dunlap, Alexander. (2016) “Wind Energy,” Standplaats Wereld (December). Available at:
Dunlap, Alexander. (2016) 'The Green Economy as a Continuation of War by Other Means,' Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (CNS) Web (Febuary). Available at:
Dunlap, Alexander. (2015) 'The Coming Elections in Mexico:An Attack Against Indigenous Self-Determination in Álvaro Obregón,' CounterPunch (June). Available at: