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- Convenors:
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Karolína Pauknerová
(Charles University)
Jiří Woitsch (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Katharina Schuchardt (Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology)
Petr Gibas (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
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- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
This panel explores how unwriting conventional narratives about landscapes in ethnography, anthropology, and folklore can foster more inclusive and equitable understandings. It addresses issues such as heritage protection, recultivation, and more-than-human relations in an ever-changing world.
Long Abstract:
Although landscapes have been studied within our fields, they have often been secondary to other focuses, despite being rich sites of cultural memory, identity, and interaction. This panel explores how unwriting and overcoming conventional narratives can reveal new possibilities for understanding and engaging with landscapes in more inclusive and equitable ways.
We will explore:
1. Unwriting Landscape and Heritage Protection: We will explore landscape and heritage protection to seek out potentially marginalized perspectives, as certain narratives and values are often prioritized over Indigenous, local, and more-than-human viewpoints. By unwriting often competing discourses of “nature” and “culture” protection, we seek to uncover the diverse ways landscapes were and have been experienced, valued, and protected across different cultures and communities.
2. Recultivation and Reuse of Landscapes – A Reimagination: Post-industrial, post-mining, and post-military landscapes often become sites for controversial experiences within the framework of dark tourism, or they are viewed as spaces in need of reclamation and rehabilitation. Frequently, these landscapes are transformed into recreational areas, residential neighborhoods, or business districts. We will consider how these spaces can be reimagined.
3. More-than-Human Relations in Unstable Landscapes: In the Anthropocene and amid climate change, we will address how unwriting anthropocentric narratives can deepen our understanding of the complex interconnections of the more-than-human world, highlighting the agency of non-human entities in threatened ecosystems.
We invite scholars, practitioners, and activists to contribute insights on how landscapes can be reinterpreted and reimagined to challenge hegemonic frameworks and embrace the complexities of our interconnected world.
This Panel has so far received 5 paper proposal(s).
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