Paper Short Abstract:

Based on our experience as inmigrants and moose hunters in Newfoundland, we reflect on how certain practices that require close involvement with particular landscapes may go on weaving a sense of belonging to "new homes."

Paper Abstract:

This presentation mobilizes the concept of "infraestructures of emplacement" to think about the effects, to some extent unexpected, that the practice of hunting might produce. Based on our experience as both immigrants and hunters in Nefowfoundland, we discuss how the specificities of the intersection between this practice and the conditions required to carry it out, led us almost unwittingly to build closer relations with both the local landscape and people. This has 'magically' transformed the perception of ourselves in relation to the place we call "home". We take this experience as a launching point to discuss a series of (speculative) points about what it means to be emplaced nowadays, in a world dominated by infraestructures of displacement.