Past Projects

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2021. Islamic discourses of environmental change on the Swahili coast of southern Tanzania. Human Organization 80(1):49-60.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2020. Seeing from below: Scuba diving and the regressive cyborg. Anthropology and Humanism 45(2):301-321.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2020. The (un)making of marine park subjects: Environmentality and everyday resistance in a coastal Tanzanian village. World Development 126(1):1-12.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2019a. “In search of a good life”: Perspectives on village out-migration in a Tanzanian marine park. Journal of Rural Studies 70(1):36-48.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2019b. Conserving poverty: Destructive fishing gear use in a Tanzanian marine protected area. Conservation and Society 17(3):297-309.

  • Kamat, Vinay, Phillipe Le Billon, Rose Mwaipopo, Justin Raycraft. 2019. Natural gas extraction and community development in Tanzania: Documenting gaps between rhetoric and reality. The Extractive Industries and Society 6(1):968-976.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2019c. From attention to distraction to attention: Considering an ADD Anthropology. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, and Nature 14(1):73-79.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2019d. Circumscribing communities: Marine conservation and territorialization in southeastern Tanzania. Geoforum 100(1):128-143.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2018a. Dilemmas of representation in contemporary environmental anthropology: Documenting dynamite fishing in southeastern Tanzania. Ethnobiology Letters 9(2): 289-298.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2018b. Marine protected areas and spatial fetishism: A viewpoint on destructive fishing in coastal Tanzania. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133(1):478-480.

Current Projects

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2025. Conservation in Common: Managing Wildlife and Sustaining Community on the Maasai Steppe. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

  • Raycraft, Justin, Kariuki Kirigia, Daniel Salau Rogei, Echi Christina Gabbert, John G. Galaty. 2025. Land grabbing in pastoral areas: insights from Eastern Africa. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 15(15266):1-19.

  • Bell, Elicia, and Justin Raycraft. 2025. "Livelihoods and large carnivores: Identifying social-ecological drivers of interaction dynamics in northern Tanzania to foster coexistence."  Journal of Environmental Management 392(126703):1-13.

  • Raycraft, Justin, Reilly Becchina, Danielle Bettermann, Stephen Koester, Elana Kriegel, Kiana Lindsay, Edwin Maingo Ole, Emily Ramirez, Bryan Spizuco, and Christian Kiffner. 2025. "Socio‐ecological correlates of wildlife species identification across rural communities in northern Tanzania."  People and Nature 7(8):1769-2064.

  • Raycraft, Justin, and Elicia Bell. 2025. "Socioeconomic predictors of pastoralist tolerance towards large carnivores in northern Tanzania."  Journal for Nature Conservation 88(127035):1-12.

  • Vallin, Juliette, Justin Raycraft, Danielle Bettermann, John Kioko, Bernard M. Kissui, Stephen Koester, Kiana Lindsay, Edwin Maingo Ole, Emily Ramirez, Bryan Spizuco, Jacqueline Loos, and Christian Kiffner. 2025. "Variable social-ecological indicators across a Tanzanian protected area network."  Biological Conservation 308(111214):1-25.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2024. "Off the Verandah, and into the Ocean: Scuba Diving, Anthropology, and Tourism." In Shores, Surfaces, and Depths: Oceanic Cultures of Tourism and Leisure. Eds. Felicity Picken and Emma Waterton. Pp. 192-206. Routledge: Abingdon, UK.

  • Raycraft, Justin, George Tanner, and Edwin Maingo Ole. 2024. Sharing landscapes with megaherbivores: Human-elephant interactions northeast of Tarangire National Park. Environmental Challenges 17(101005):1-11.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2024. Perceived impacts of wildlife on agropastoral food production in northern Tanzania. Ecology of Food & Nutrition 63(3):204-228.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2024. Human-hyena (Crocuta crocuta) conflict in the Tarangire ecosystem, Tanzania. Conservation 4(1):99-114.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2023. Wildlife and human safety in the Tarangire Ecosystem, Tanzania. Trees, Forests, and People 13(100418):1-11.

  • Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Neema M. Lekule. 2023. Attitudes of communities living near Rau Forest Reserve, Tanzania towards Mount Kilimanjaro black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus caudatus): A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 61:238-241.

  • Raycraft, Justin. 2022. Community attitudes towards Randilen Wildlife Management Area. In Tarangire: Human-wildlife coexistence in a fragmented ecosystem. Eds. Christian Kiffner, Derek Lee, and Monica Bond. Pp. 109-128. Springer: New York, NY.

  • Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Baltazar Mboya. 2021. Community awareness of critically endangered pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri) in a village near Tarangire National Park, Tanzania: A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 00:1-4.