FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2897655382> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2897655382 abstract "Author(s): du Plessis, Pierre Louis | Advisor(s): Tsing, Anna L. | Abstract: At a time when human environmental disturbance is challenging livability on the planet—for humans and nonhumans alike—it is important to find better methods for engaging with the liveliness of landscapes, the relations with which they hang together, and the various ways they are interrupted. This dissertation explores the practices of tracking and gathering as methods for studying such issues facing Kalahari Desert landscapes in Botswana. These ecologically important landscapes are increasingly encroached upon and fragmented by the growing cattle economy and the proliferation of extractive industries into the desert. These trends have led to dramatic declines in wildlife populations and growing desertification of the already arid region. The Kalahari is home to small communities of people, many of whom are former hunter-gatherers whose rights to land and access to wildlife are increasingly inhibited. The government has banned hunting, largely in response to conservationists’ concerns about wildlife. In addition, gathering is increasingly regulated, and cattle colonize areas that are significant for wildlife and San communities. In this context, rather than treating tracking and gathering as objects of study, I take these practices seriously as methods for noticing and theorizing more-than-human landscapes, their transformations, and contingent histories to address challenges facing people and their environments in the Kalahari and beyond.By focusing on the relational forms of noticing landscapes with San trackers and gatherers, I describe landscapes as always in motion, emergent more-than-human places where assemblages gather, histories are made, and politics enacted. This is in direct contrast to theoretical moves that treat landscapes as background on which histories and politics occur. My dissertation enacts tracking and gathering as a methodology. Beginning with an extension of the concept of tracks and following their movements out to their relations with other landscape actors in each chapter, I emphasize that landscapes are not merely contexts for politics and histories. Rather, landscapes do histories and politics, in spite of efforts to hold these landscapes still as underutilized expanses of resources. The dissertation itself unfolds, moving out through the landscape by tracking these emergent relations. I argue that tracking is a relational practice of becoming-familiar-with these multiple entanglements of emergent landscapes. The practice of gathering involves much of the same kinds of attention to landscape movements and their coordinations as with tracking. Here, I employ gathering in its double meaning: the practice of collecting and of coming together. The tracks of gathered truffles then lead to the worlds of grass and termites that, in turn, allow for a reflection on Kalahari rangeland ecology and the political economy of the cattle industry. Finally, the dissertation zooms out to the desert’s geomorphology, tracking the movements of geological processes as they gather with the movements of humans and nonhumans to form lively landscape features over the longue duree. Tracking and gathering are methods that allow for an elaboration of these more-than-human landscapes-in-motion, together with their social, political, and economic histories and speculative futures." @default.
• W2897655382 created "2018-10-26" @default.
• W2897655382 creator A5015764318 @default.
• W2897655382 creator A5044268241 @default.
• W2897655382 date "2018-01-01" @default.
• W2897655382 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W2897655382 title "Gathering the Kalahari: Tracking Landscapes in Motion" @default.
• W2897655382 hasPublicationYear "2018" @default.
• W2897655382 type Work @default.
• W2897655382 sameAs 2897655382 @default.
• W2897655382 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2897655382 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2897655382 hasAuthorship W2897655382A5015764318 @default.
• W2897655382 hasAuthorship W2897655382A5044268241 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C107826830 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C150772632 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C18903297 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C205649164 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C2776130869 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C2778137410 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C2779343474 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C29376679 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C39432304 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C86803240 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C91375879 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConcept C95124753 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C107826830 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C138885662 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C150772632 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C166957645 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C17744445 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C18903297 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C199539241 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C205649164 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C2776130869 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C2778137410 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C2779343474 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C29376679 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C39432304 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C41895202 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C86803240 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C91375879 @default.
• W2897655382 hasConceptScore W2897655382C95124753 @default.
• W2897655382 hasLocation W28976553821 @default.
• W2897655382 hasOpenAccess W2897655382 @default.
• W2897655382 hasPrimaryLocation W28976553821 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W1968070709 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2007963451 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2085369711 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2127541962 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2141584383 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2183601696 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2290403581 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2588096675 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2612886835 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2765936269 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2794402946 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2797257593 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2811118869 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2964216769 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W2965929196 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W3097168733 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W3185425659 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W601933359 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W883742021 @default.
• W2897655382 hasRelatedWork W357966278 @default.
• W2897655382 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2897655382 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2897655382 magId "2897655382" @default.
• W2897655382 workType "article" @default.