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SUMMARY:“Walk the Perimeter” – Stories of Place in the Falkland Isla
 nds - Bronte Evans Rayward (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Deb Wood
DESCRIPTION:Rising to my feet on New Island in the South Atlantic\, surrou
 nded by thick tussac grass\, a cross section of the landscape enters my mi
 nd. There is the sky\, the grass and the soil\, which is interspersed with
  thousands of burrows. Each burrow ends in a cavern with a small thin-bill
 ed prion chick. I will never experience this cross section as imagined\, b
 ut it can be otherwise sensed. This thesis is about stories of place\, how
  these develop\, how they are encompassed in landscape\, and how one might
  craft stories that positively contribute to sustaining dynamic place rela
 tions.\nThe thin-billed prion colony I describe is situated on the Falklan
 d Islands. These Islands are the focus of this research. It was conducted 
 using archival methods and participant-observation across two seasons of e
 thnographic fieldwork. The settler colonial\, ecological transformations t
 hat have occurred over time in the Islands\, and in the wider South Atlant
 ic\, generate and evidence various commodity-narratives with which Islande
 rs today continue to grapple. The Islanders’ negotiations with these nar
 ratives are underpinned and influenced by the contemporary management of w
 hat Anna Tsing calls ghosts. In the Falklands these are interconnected the
 mes of personal\, political and ecological loss\, from various perspective
 s and on non-linear temporal scales.\nIslanders and visitors to the Island
 s conducting environmental scientific research and conservation activities
  are entangled in this context. These researchers and residents have the p
 otential to contribute sensitively to cultivating positive place relations
 hips\, and in some cases already are. I analyse their complex acts of know
 ledge-production\, relation\, encounter and storytelling. Ultimately\, it 
 is imperative to reflect on what stories are told\, where\, who tells them
 \, and who is listening to generate momentum amidst the ghosts\, and a dis
 course that foregrounds respectful place-relations in the Falkland Islands
 .
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details
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