Erämaa—Finnish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
This chapter of the “Wilderness babel” exhibition, written by historical ecologist and environmental historian Péter Szabó, looks at Hungarian notions of “wilderness.”
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Lars Elenius, looks at Swedish notions of wilderness and its uses over history.