Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes

Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes

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This article explores the potential of giving animals a more prominent role in landscape studies. Through an historical constructivist approach, animals can function as object, text, happening, and as a fragment of a larger environmental history. Using empirical examples from Norway and Scotland, a...

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Main Author: Karen Victoria Lykke Syse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies 2016-12-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
Online Access:https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/njsts/article/view/2133
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spelling doaj-e2d37860cc4c4be5b84787c88a3836542020-11-25T01:14:06ZengNordic Journal of Science and Technology StudiesNordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies1894-46472016-12-012110.5324/njsts.v2i1.2133Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and AnecdotesKaren Victoria Lykke Syse This article explores the potential of giving animals a more prominent role in landscape studies. Through an historical constructivist approach, animals can function as object, text, happening, and as a fragment of a larger environmental history. Using empirical examples from Norway and Scotland, animals’ symbolic, social, and cultural availability are addressed. After presenting two case studies I claim that we can enrich our understanding of rural landscapes by including animals. Animals help uncover the meanings people embed in their landscape. By using the term animalscape, animals can more straightforwardly be incorporated both methodologically and analytically in rural studies. https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/njsts/article/view/2133
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Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
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title Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
title_short Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
title_full Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
title_fullStr Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
title_full_unstemmed Stumbling over Animals in the Landscape: Methodological Accidents and Anecdotes
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publisher Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
series Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
issn 1894-4647
publishDate 2016-12-01
description This article explores the potential of giving animals a more prominent role in landscape studies. Through an historical constructivist approach, animals can function as object, text, happening, and as a fragment of a larger environmental history. Using empirical examples from Norway and Scotland, animals’ symbolic, social, and cultural availability are addressed. After presenting two case studies I claim that we can enrich our understanding of rural landscapes by including animals. Animals help uncover the meanings people embed in their landscape. By using the term animalscape, animals can more straightforwardly be incorporated both methodologically and analytically in rural studies.
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