Post-Doc, Estonian Institute of Humanities
Thesis Title: Sacred Others in a Changing Landscape – Environmental Change and Animal Practice in the Norwegian Arctic
Hannes Palang
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Project Summary:
The proposed project will investigate the combined impact of anthropogenic environmental change – specifically, climate change and shifting patterns of land-use – with new paradigms of human nature governance – including biodiversity preservation, wildlife management and animal welfare – on traditional forms of animal practice and human-animal relations in the Norwegian Arctic.
The guiding hypothesis is that current trends and processes are radically altering conditions for human engagement with animals in the region. The project theorizes this using anthropological concepts of animal personhood, combined with a problematization of the 'non-human' within contemporary biopolitics.
The overall aim of the project is to identify, describe and theorize current trends and transformations in the field of human-animal relations in the Norwegian Arctic, analyse their possible implications for environmental governance and policy in the region and, on the basis of this, develop a programme for further research.
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