Affiliated Projects

CONTOURS

Conservation, Tourism, Remoteness

CONTOURS looks across Europe and Western Russia to understand how conservation and tourism practices and processes intersect, and how they are understood, implemented and at times resisted. The project seeks to set out a conceptual and methodological pathway for linking applied studies of nature tourism and conservation practices with critical research on human-environment relations.

Future Conservation

This project explores the views of conservationists on a range of issues, as a way of informing debates on the future of conservation. Recent debates about the future of conservation have been dominated by a few high-profile individuals, whose views seem to fit fairly neatly into polarised positions. Using a survey, we are exploring the range of views that exist within the conservation movement globally, and how they vary by key demographic characteristics.

Moving Animals

A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century

This project will study changing human-nature relations by focusing on human involvement with ‘wild’ animals that move (or are being moved) over great distances. More in particular, it will analyze how the long-distance movement of these animals has been studied, represented, managed and policed throughout twentieth century.

Vetinarization of Europe

Hunting for wild boar futures in the time of African Swine Fever

A project that pursues a collaborative, ethnographic investigation into the relationship between three understudied subjects in anthropology: veterinary medicine, recreational hunting, and wild boars.

Wadden Sea Meta- Geographies

This project identified markedly different practices and institutional trajectories within Wadden Sea management in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands by investigating how distinct concepts and boundary-drawing practices inform how landscape and nature-culture relations are understood at the Wadden Sea, and how the management of this coastal landscape is framed and organised.

Wetland Times

This project uses the ‘temporal ecosystems’ of three global wetland sites (Morecambe Bay, UK; the northern European Wadden Sea; and the Congo Basin peatlands) to investigate the different ways in which time is conceptualised, experienced, and described in these vulnerable and complex landscapes, and show how productive use of (dis)ordered, multiple temporalities can be made.