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CP449


Thinking with sheep to understand landscape transformations 
Convenor:
Annika Capelán (Aarhus University and University of Cape Town)
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Chair:
Annika Capelán (Aarhus University and University of Cape Town)
Discussant:
Rebecca Woods (University of Toronto)
Format:
Closed Panel
Location:
HG-09A24
Sessions:
Thursday 18 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

What may it mean to think of sheep as historically responsive socio-relational landscape makers? Presenting empirical details that elicit enactments by sheep breeds in diverse grazing areas, this panel discusses how attending to sheep may unveil relational aspects of landscape transformations.

Long Abstract:

This panel brings together scholars committed to understanding landscape transformations through a focus on sheep. In times when researchers are committed to exploring the industrialization processes of animal bodies, the panel asks what it may mean to think through sheep as historically responsive socio-relational landscape makers. However, in line with the conference theme, it strives to bring the analysis further, to explore what such research may add to the enactment of the landscapes. Sheep, unlike many other commodity animals, are generally not raised in confined feeding operations. Instead, they often remain close to the grassroots of rural production, as their wool thrives on harsh grasslands where they can browse freely, yet with their motilities controlled through grazing management. By presenting empirical details that elicit different versions of the presence of sheep breeds and herds in the South African Karoo, the Shetland islands, the Ethiopian highlands, the Namibian landscape, and Western USA forests, the panel discusses how attending to sheep may unveil particular relational aspects of landscape transformations, bringing out a narrative of encounters and exchanges which in turn may affect the modes, methods, and sensibilities by which the landscape can be approached and analyzed.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -