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SUMMARY:More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland - Guillem R
 ubio Ramón\, University of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Rogelio Luque-Lora
DESCRIPTION:Geographical and cognate disciplines have thoroughly studied t
 he intertwining of ideas of nature and nationhood. This work covers topics
  such as the social construction of nature\; the intersections between nat
 ionalist and environmentalist political agendas\; and the national discour
 ses of ownership\, control\, and identity of natural resources. Mostly uns
 een within this broader picture are nations without a state and nonhuman l
 ives that do not constitute authentic or national natures. Catalonia and S
 cotland are two cases that perfectly illustrate this: two European statele
 ss nations where recent political turmoil is still altering what it is to 
 be Catalan or Scottish. Even if the connections between nature and nationa
 lism have been studied in both cases\, animals have mostly appeared circum
 stantially or as passive symbolic objects within contested rural landscape
 s. My research\, therefore\, revolves around these gaps and seeks to simul
 taneously chart two convergent trajectories in this body of work: expandin
 g how we understand nature and how we discursively construct the nation. D
 rawing on insights from previous fieldwork in the Pyrenees and ongoing res
 earch on pig farming in Catalonia and salmon aquaculture in Scotland\, thi
 s presentation looks at those large numbers of nonhumans both hidden but r
 adically ‘entangled’ in the machinations of the nation.\n\n
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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