Esther Marijnen

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 662 citations indexed

About

Esther Marijnen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Esther Marijnen has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 662 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Esther Marijnen's work include Cambodian History and Society (7 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers). Esther Marijnen is often cited by papers focused on Cambodian History and Society (7 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers). Esther Marijnen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Esther Marijnen's co-authors include Judith Verweijen, Rosaleen Duffy, Francis Massé, Maano Ramutsindela, Bram Büscher, Trishant Simlai, Laure Joanny, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Adeniyi Asiyanbi and Prakash Kashwan and has published in prestigious journals such as Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation and Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

In The Last Decade

Esther Marijnen

18 papers receiving 619 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Why we must question the militarisation of conservation

2019 230 citations Rosaleen Duffy, Francis Massé et al. Biological Conservation profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Esther Marijnen Belgium	11	261	258	159	111	99	21	662
Ismael Vaccaro Canada	16	266 1.0×	223 0.9×	151 0.9×	102 0.9×	56 0.6×	62	670
Alice B. Kelly United States	10	330 1.3×	204 0.8×	90 0.6×	70 0.6×	78 0.8×	14	692
Andrew S. Mathews United States	13	324 1.2×	285 1.1×	112 0.7×	201 1.8×	42 0.4×	23	865
Stasja Koot Netherlands	13	183 0.7×	233 0.9×	84 0.5×	102 0.9×	39 0.4×	40	545
Judith Verweijen Belgium	17	202 0.8×	578 2.2×	119 0.7×	77 0.7×	81 0.8×	50	1.0k
Mac Chapin United States	4	359 1.4×	128 0.5×	112 0.7×	140 1.3×	35 0.4×	7	717
Crystal Fortwangler United States	7	661 2.5×	190 0.7×	249 1.6×	49 0.4×	78 0.8×	10	912
Jevgeniy Bluwstein Denmark	12	290 1.1×	133 0.5×	111 0.7×	60 0.5×	24 0.2×	24	532
Megan Ybarra United States	12	142 0.5×	234 0.9×	34 0.2×	110 1.0×	40 0.4×	21	504
Gail Tipa New Zealand	14	115 0.4×	195 0.8×	116 0.7×	79 0.7×	63 0.6×	21	702

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Esther Marijnen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Esther Marijnen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Esther Marijnen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Esther Marijnen. Esther Marijnen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Koot, Stasja, Sian Sullivan, Wolfram Dressler, et al.. (2025). Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research. Conservation Biology. 39(2). e14454–e14454. 4 indexed citations

Lunstrum, Elizabeth, et al.. (2025). Demilitarizing Conservation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 115(10). 2525–2537.

Selby, Jan, et al.. (2024). The Many Faces of Environmental Security. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 49(1). 395–418.

Marijnen, Esther, et al.. (2023). The politics of mourning in conservation conflicts: The (un)grievability of life and less-than-human geographies. Political Geography. 108. 103031–103031. 5 indexed citations

Marijnen, Esther. (2022). Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation. Security Dialogue. 53(6). 550–566. 9 indexed citations

Marijnen, Esther. (2021). Lakes as Rebellious Landscapes: From ‘Fishing Rebels’ to ‘Fishy State Officials’ in DR Congo. Geoforum. 133. 208–216. 8 indexed citations

Kashwan, Prakash, Rosaleen Duffy, Francis Massé, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, & Esther Marijnen. (2021). From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation. Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 63(4). 4–19. 91 indexed citations

Marijnen, Esther, Lotje de Vries, & Rosaleen Duffy. (2020). Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict. Political Geography. 87. 102253–102253. 26 indexed citations

Duffy, Rosaleen, Francis Massé, Esther Marijnen, et al.. (2019). Why we must question the militarisation of conservation. Biological Conservation. 232. 66–73. 230 indexed citations breakdown →

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Titeca, Kristof, et al.. (2019). Conservation as a social contract in a violent frontier: The case of (Anti-) poaching in Garamba National Park, eastern DR Congo. Political Geography. 78. 102116–102116. 10 indexed citations

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Marijnen, Esther & Peer Schouten. (2019). Electrifying the green peace? Electrification, conservation and conflict in Eastern Congo. Conflict Security and Development. 19(1). 15–34. 16 indexed citations

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Marijnen, Esther & Judith Verweijen. (2018). Pluralising Political Forests: Unpacking “the State” by Tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain. Antipode. 52(4). 996–1017. 20 indexed citations

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Marijnen, Esther. (2018). Public Authority and Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict: Virunga National Park as a ‘State within a State’ in Eastern Congo. Development and Change. 49(3). 790–814. 30 indexed citations

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Marijnen, Esther. (2017). The ‘green militarisation’ of development aid: the European Commission and the Virunga National Park, DR Congo. Third World Quarterly. 38(7). 1566–1582. 34 indexed citations

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Verweijen, Judith & Esther Marijnen. (2016). The counterinsurgency/conservation nexus: guerrilla livelihoods and the dynamics of conflict and violence in the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45(2). 300–320. 66 indexed citations

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Ansoms, An, et al.. (2016). Statistics versus livelihoods: questioning Rwanda’s pathway out of poverty. Review of African Political Economy. 44(151). 26 indexed citations

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Baaz, Maria Eriksson, Esther Marijnen, Judith Verweijen, et al.. (2015). Virunga's white savior complex. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Baaz, Maria Eriksson, et al.. (2015). Virunga's White Savior Complex : How the Film Distorts the Politics and People of Congo. 2 indexed citations

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Marijnen, Esther. (2015). Dealing with dissent across borders: the ‘presence’ of the Rwandan Government in the Rwandan Diaspora(s). VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 287–305. 1 indexed citations

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Fiott, Daniel, et al.. (2013). The Sahel Crisis:Where do European and AfricanPerspectives Meet? IES Policy Brief Issue 2013/02/March 2013. 1 indexed citations

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