Staff profile

Undergraduate study in social anthropology at Cambridge, PhD University of East Anglia Development Studies ‘The Dynamics of Cooperation: Households and Economy in a Tamang Community of Nepal’, lecturing at Edinburgh, Keele, Manchester, Hull, Durham (from 2006), Director of Durham MSc Sustainability, Culture and Development.

ESRC Award 1997-8 ‘Himalayan Biodiversity and Human Interests’.

2002-4 EU award ‘Public Understanding of Genetics’ directed by Jeanette Edwards in Manchester leading workpackage on Public Understanding of Genetically Modified Food.

2007 Williamson Fund award A Himalayan Road and the People of the Border.

2012-13 Co-Investigator Department of Energy and Climate Change ‘Low Carbon Energy for Development Network.

2013-15 Co-Investigator EPSRC/DFID £100,000 'Energy and International Development: Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions (USES) in Developing Countries Programme'.

Films (with camera by Cosmo Campbell): 2004 ‘Shamanic Pilgrimage to Gosainkund’. 2009 ‘The Way of the Road’.

Future Research Plans

• Biomass to Biogas transition among indigenous communities of Nepal;
• New Directions in UK Sustainable Food Cultures;
• Durham Energy Institute social science of Energy, Environment and Food;
• Low Carbon Energy for Development Network phase II (with colleagues from Loughborough, Sussex, and Imperial College)

International Collaborations

• Britain Nepal Academic Council member

• Low Carbon Energy for Development Network

• Biotechnology and post-agrarian rural economies
• Conservation and social justice
• Culture and sustainability
• Environmental anthropology
• Food cultures
• Indigenous knowledge and development
• Low carbon energy transitions
• Nepal and Himalayas
• South Asia and social theory

Authored book

• Campbell, B. (2013). Living Between Juniper and Palm: Nature, Culture, and Power in the Himalayas. Oxford University Press

Chapter in book

• Campbell, B., & Suji, M. Biogas in Nepal: bringing social contexts of energy innovation into view. In The Routledge Handbook of the Himalayas: Environments, Development, Wellbeings. Routledge
• Campbell, B. Sustainability: a Critical, Comparative and Relational Approach. In Is the Concept of Sustainability Misleading?. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Journal Article

• Boyd Williams, N., Quilliam, R. S., Campbell, B., Ghatani, R., & Dickie, J. (2022). Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology. Energy Research and Social Science, 86, Article 102448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102448
• Boyd Williams, N., Quilliam, R. S., Campbell, B., Raha, D., Baruah, D. C., Clarke, M. L., Sarma, R., Haque, C., Borah, T., & Dickie, J. (2022). Challenging perceptions of socio-cultural rejection of a taboo technology: Narratives of imagined transitions to domestic toilet-linked biogas in India. Energy Research and Social Science, 92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102802
• Campbell, B. (2020). Communicative Orders in Collision and Collusion with Natural Resource Management Regimes in Nepal. Ethnos, 85(1), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1574854
• Campbell, B. (2018). Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Struggles over Sustainability in Nepal. Landscape Research, 43(8), 1056-1067. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1503241
• Campbell, B. (2018). Moral Ecologies of Subsistence and Labour in a Migration-affected Community of Nepal. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24(S1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12805
• Brown, E., Campbell, B., Cloke, J., To, L. S., Turner, B., & Wray, A. (2018). Low carbon energy and international development: from research impact to policymaking. Contemporary Social Science, 13(1), 112-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2017.1417627
• Campbell, B. (2017). Encountering Climate Change: dialogues of human and non-human relationships within Tamang moral ecology and climate policy discourses. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 49, 59-87
• Campbell, B., Cloke, J., & Brown, E. (2016). Communities of Energy. Economic Anthropology, 3(1), 133-144. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12050
• Campbell, B., & Sallis, P. (2013). Low-carbon yak cheese: transition to biogas in a Himalayan socio-technical niche. Interface Focus, 3(1), Article 20120052. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2012.0052
• Campbell, B. (2010). Rhetorical Routes for Development: a road project in Nepal. Contemporary South Asia, 18(3), 267-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2010.501099
• Campbell, B. (2008). Environmental Cosmopolitans: Introduction. Nature and Culture, 3(1), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2008.030102
• Campbell, B. (2005). Changing Protection Policies and Ethnographies of Environmental Engagement. Conservation & Society, 3(2), 280-322
• Campbell, B. (2005). Biotechnology and the Public Voices of Market Reason in the British Debate on GMOs. Biotecnologia i veus públiques de raons de mercat en el debat britànic sobre organismes genèticament modificats (OGM). Revista d'etnologia de Catalunya (Internet), 27, 24-39