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SUMMARY: Bio-geo-graphy: landscape\, dwelling and the political ecology of
  human-animal relations - Dr. Maan Barua\, School of Geography and the Env
 ironment\, University of Oxford 
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CONTACT:Judith Schleicher
DESCRIPTION:The relation between the bio and the geo has been amongst geog
 raphy’s most enduring concerns. This paper contributes to ongoing attemp
 ts in human geography to politicize the dynamics and distribution of life.
  Drawing upon postcolonial environmental history\, animal ecology and more
 -than-human geography\, the paper examines how humans and elephants cohabi
 t with and against the grain of cartographic design. Through fieldwork in 
 northeast India\, it develops a ‘dwelt political ecology’ that reanima
 tes landscape as a dwelt achievement whilst remaining sensitive to postcol
 onial histories and subaltern concerns. The paper conceptualizes and deplo
 ys a methodology of ‘tracking’ through which archival material\, eleph
 ant ecology and voices of the marginalized can be integrated and mapped. I
 t concludes by discussing the implications of this work for fostering new 
 conversations between more-than-human geography and subaltern political ec
 ology.
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