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Accepted Paper:
Thinking with royal forests about a protected landscape area - Krivoklatsko as a site of the sovereignty´s politics
Tomas Ledvinka
(University Hradec Králové)
The paper discusses how Krivoklatsko, today protected landscape area, can be redefined via its past as a royal forest, an inalienable element of sovereignty.
Paper long abstract:
The protected landscape area Krivoklatsko is modern successor of one of medieval royal forests which have once been protected by the principle of the inalienability of the Bohemian kingdom´s sovereignty. The paper discusses the way how legal-historical knowledge can help to reconfigure contemporary understanding of the environment as a dimension of the modern state and how the difference of particular material-ontological arrangements of the royal forests and contemporary protected environments can be put into dialog. Using the example of Krivoklatsko, the paper explores how the metaphorics of the State as a house is detached from the concreteness of landscape and is contrasted with the inalienability of the sovereignty which is "sticked" into particular places. It suggests close ontological entanglements between the protected environments and political theories of the state.