Article published by Corridor Talk Team

Almost exactly a year after the Corridor Talk project ended, the article Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies was published in the journal Environmental Humanities. This article, written by all six team members together and representing a synthesis of the different research insights from the three-year project that was funded jointly by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation focuses on three cross-border European national parks. Such (inter)national parks can be sites of conflict between different interests, but are ideal places to see the different concepts of conservation – ecological, historical, cultural, political – in play. For the team, researching and writing across countries and disciplines wasn’t easy, and trying to do this during the Covid-19 pandemic was especially challenging, but it was managing these difficulties that gave us the idea of applying the concept of the wildlife corridor to conservation humanities more broadly. The Corridor Talk team members are looking forward to continuing to develop ideas in the new corridors that are opening up through the European Conservation Humanities Network.