12–14 August 2022. Ralsko, Czech Republic
WG3 Training School ‘Tracing and dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes’ organised by dr Petr Gibas, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
How do we trace environmental destruction and its social impacts within a landscape?
What use do and should social sciences and humanities make of traces of the past, and of potential futures, when studying landscapes in transformation?
How we as scientists (and embodied beings) acknowledge, conceptualize and methodologically use more-than-human properties of landscapes?
The first TRACTS training school, coordinated by the Working Group 4 on Traces and Climate Change, focused on conceptual and methodological issues related to more-than-human entanglements constitutive of landscape and ensuing challenges for research. The aim was to explore innovative methodological avenues for engaging with traces of transformation in/of a post-mining / post-military landscape.
The training school took place in an area impacted by long term exploitation by military and mining operations including underground mining and in-situ leaching of uranium. It brought together participants from six COST Member countries to get a hands-on experience of the landscape to discuss and explore innovative methodological avenues for acknowledging and researching traces of past and present transformation as well as open futures. It allowed space for creative re-thinking of research practices and methodologies by means of conceptual as well as hands-on explorations led by practitioners from academia and the arts. #tractsresearch
