HI-LANDeS · More-than-Human Histories of Rural Landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2023-02-01 → 2026-01-31
- EU contribution
- €226,694
- Participants
- 3
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF
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Results in brief
More-than-Human Histories of Rural Landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century
In times of unprecedented environmental change and related socio-political challenges, HI-LANDeS addresses the critical need for new knowledge, methods and governance practices that better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations. Conventional environmental governance schemes tend to prevent and mitigate environmental change by protecting and separating nature from humans, thereby excluding or simplifying other (e.g. indigenous) modes and practices of relating to nature. This has resulted in an increase in socio-environmental conflicts and vulnerabilities. HI-LANDeS contributes to a paradigm shift towards an integrated approach that understands socio-environmental change as co-produced by human and nonhuman lives through ‘more-than-human’ histories. HI-LANDeS focuses specifically on wetlands of the Andean highlands, constituting strategic sites for carbon storage, water sources, and biodiversity, as well as the home of resilient indigenous communities. HI-LANDeS has a double main objective. First, it aims to investigate the role of communal management practices and local ecological knowledge in the context of historical socio-environmental change within a global analytical framework. This will provide an enhanced historical understanding of Andean rural communities’ adaptive capacities in the transformation and governance. Second, the project aims to translate historical insights into an innovative environmental governance approach through a co-creational and intersectoral strategy. This will contribute to more inclusive policy frameworks that are relevant to the regional and global environmental agendas, including the European Green Deal.
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Project objective
HI-LANDeS develops a conceptually innovative and empirically grounded historicising approach to the transformation and governance of rural landscapes. In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman lives co-produce socio-environmental transformations through “more-than-human” histories. Strategic sites for carbon storage, water sources, and biodiversity, as well as home to resilient indigenous communities, Andean wetlands offer a unique case-study to examine “more-than-human” landscape histories, and how these can inform contemporary socio-environmental challenges. The main objective of HI-LANDeS is to construct and apply an analytical framework that integrates a historicising, systemic, and more-than-human perspective on rural landscapes to investigate the role of communal practices and knowledge production around water and land in the transformation and governance of rural landscapes. HI-LANDeS departs from two case studies in indigenous communities of the Bolivian-Chilean highlands, based on archival research, fieldwork, and community workshops, analysed within a global framework and a transdisciplinary collaboration. HI-LANDeS will produce new empirical knowledge, critical theoretical insights, and innovative co-creational methods that can contribute to more inclusive conservation and rural development policies, in the Andes, Europe but also more globally. This global fellowship facilitates a three-way transfer of knowledge between expertise in rural history, world-ecology, and rural development at UGent (Belgium), a strong tradition in Andean historical anthropology at UTA (Chile), and the fellow’s trajectory in environmental humanities. Through an intersectoral secondment at NGO Agua Sustentable (Bolivia), the fellow will enable a knowledge transfer between historical research and environmental governance.
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Participants
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- DOI: 10.3030/101065205
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e527ecf7e9&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5fdcea2bc&appId=PPGMS
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