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CATEGORIES:Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities 
 and Social Sciences ECR Workshop
SUMMARY:“Walk the Perimeter” – Stories of Place in the Fal
 kland Islands - Bronte Evans Rayward (University o
 f Cambridge)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/232006
DESCRIPTION:Rising to my feet on New Island in the South Atlan
 tic\, surrounded by thick tussac grass\, a cross s
 ection of the landscape enters my mind. There is t
 he sky\, the grass and the soil\, which is intersp
 ersed with thousands of burrows. Each burrow ends 
 in a cavern with a small thin-billed prion chick. 
 I will never experience this cross section as imag
 ined\, but it can be otherwise sensed. This thesis
  is about stories of place\, how these develop\, h
 ow they are encompassed in landscape\, and how one
  might craft stories that positively contribute to
  sustaining dynamic place relations.\nThe thin-bil
 led prion colony I describe is situated on the Fal
 kland Islands. These Islands are the focus of this
  research. It was conducted using archival methods
  and participant-observation across two seasons of
  ethnographic fieldwork. The settler colonial\, ec
 ological transformations that have occurred over t
 ime in the Islands\, and in the wider South Atlant
 ic\, generate and evidence various commodity-narra
 tives with which Islanders today continue to grapp
 le. The Islanders’ negotiations with these narrati
 ves are underpinned and influenced by the contempo
 rary management of what Anna Tsing calls ghosts. I
 n the Falklands these are interconnected themes of
  personal\, political and ecological loss\, from v
 arious perspectives and on non-linear temporal sca
 les.\nIslanders and visitors to the Islands conduc
 ting environmental scientific research and conserv
 ation activities are entangled in this context. Th
 ese researchers and residents have the potential t
 o contribute sensitively to cultivating positive p
 lace relationships\, and in some cases already are
 . I analyse their complex acts of knowledge-produc
 tion\, relation\, encounter and storytelling. Ulti
 mately\, it is imperative to reflect on what stori
 es are told\, where\, who tells them\, and who is 
 listening to generate momentum amidst the ghosts\,
  and a discourse that foregrounds respectful place
 -relations in the Falkland Islands.
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI &amp\; Zoom - email or
 ganiser for details
CONTACT:Deb Wood
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