Structures

The third chapter of “Wetland Times,” “Structures.”

Wetland Times

Wetlands are ecologically dynamic and vulnerable landscapes where multiple temporalities, human and nonhuman, intersect and challenge one another. This virtual exhibition explores the dynamic temporalities of wetlands and their complex relationships—the temporal imaginaries, narratives, structures, flows, (a)synchronicities, and ruptures they contain—framed by a conceptual vocabulary that reveals the role of language in understanding wetland times and temporalities. Our examples draw on case studies from three wetlands: the Wadden Sea in Northern Europe; Morecambe Bay, in the northwest of the United Kingdom; and the Dja-Et-Lobo region in southern Cameroon, focusing specifically on wetland areas near settlements of the Baka people.

About the Exhibition

About the author

Azambuja, Enaiê Mairê

Dr. Enaiê Mairê Azambuja is a fellow in environmental humanities in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Her work primarily focuses on literature and poetry, and she is interested in the intersections between ecological thought, cultural narratives, and the environmental imagination.

Ewing, Blake

Dr. Blake Ewing is an assistant professor of political theory at the University of Nottingham. His core interest is in the politics of time, with a focus on this project on the temporalities of conservation practices.

Thomas, Nicola

Dr. Nicola Thomas is a lecturer in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. She is interested in cultural ways of understanding space, time, and the environment, across languages.

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“Centering Coastal Communities’ Diverse Economic Practices in the Blue Economy”

This article calls for a re-envisioning of the blue economy through the eyes of coastal communities and their socio-ecological relations.

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A Letter to My Father

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Perspectives Issue 2014/6

Chioma’s candid letter to her father reflects on the challenges of climate change, celebrating her village’s resilience in facing adversity.

A Letter to Subhash Palekar, Natural Farmer

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Perspectives Issue 2014/6

Daniel Münster thanks Subhash Palekar for promoting natural farming across India and highlights its hopeful impact on farmers.

A Letter to a (Composite) Student in Environmental Studies

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Perspectives Issue 2014/6

In his letter to students, Thomas Princen urges individuals to take responsibility by creating change in their own lives and communities through resistance.

“Regimes of Value: Economic Transformations, Ecological Livelihoods, and Salt Cooperatives on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast”

This article investigates changing regimes of value in the salt flats on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert

by Amir Sohel and Farhat Naz

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Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 10

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“The Amazon before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador”

A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.

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“Where Ideas Grow: Life at the Landhaus”

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.

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Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp

by Daniel Dumas

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Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 25

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