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SUMMARY:Landscape history\, archaeology and storytelling - Prof Anneli Ekb
 lom\, Uppsala Universitet and IHOPE
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CONTACT:Lydia Clough
DESCRIPTION:The a-historical notion of a static wilderness nature remains 
 pervasive in popular images\, policy debates and landscape planning. This 
 narrative impedes the very goals of conservation in terms of biodiversity 
 protection\, and the possibilities of economic and social equity for commu
 nities both in and around conservation areas and also more broadly in land
 scape planning. In the seminar\, I will give examples of projects from Swe
 den\, Sicily and Mozambique how landscape history and archaeology can cont
 ribute to a better understanding landscape change and better promote the c
 ombination of biodiversity goals with sustainable livelihoods. The pervasi
 veness of the wilderness image shows us how a story is never just a story.
  On the African continent\, decades of revisionist work combining archaeol
 ogy with climate- and vegetation history\, has made us understand the scal
 e and complexity of landscape changes. Despite this\, landscape planning a
 nd restoration work still draw on strongly on the wilderness idea\, result
 ing in a homogenisation of landscapes. Therefore\, storytelling is a funda
 mental\, albeit underappreciated\, tool in dissemination to the public and
  to policymakers\, as also a method for co-production of knowledge with an
 d for local community. Our work joins the amassing chorus of works that re
 alised the power of the narrative for writing multi-species histories that
  shows the entanglement and embeddedness of humans\, fellow organisms and 
 landscapes to promote feral proliferations. \nRegister: https://cam-ac-uk.
 zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudeGvpz0pE9B8I9p2YRKvlJx9kZDHqLZA
LOCATION:Zoom
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