Migrants‘ relations with nature
Natural environment is an indiscernible part of migration experience. While several research fields such as ethnobotany or political ecology have developed their own approaches to studying the relations between the two, the perspective of leisure studies allows for interpreting the migrants’ relations with nature from a novel vantage point. In this talk I will rely on the material collected in the course of several research projects devoted to the role of leisure in migratory experience, including the international comparative study on the role of natural environment in the processes of migrant adaptation that was carried out in the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany and Poland among migrants from Latin America, China, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam. I will focus on the everyday contacts between migrants and urban greenspaces, accentuating the plural and ambivalent features of these socionatures: they participate in developing migrants’ sense of belonging to a new place of residence, while simultaneously acting as venues where migration regimes are latently present. I will offer a critical reflection on migrants’ “biophilia” and “biophobia” as politicized constructs.
Vortragende(r)
Anna Horolets is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. Having the background in linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, she has carried out research on identity processes and various types of mobility - tourism and migration included, - using the tools of discourse analysis and ethnography. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, at ISCTE, Lisbon, and at the University of Cambridge. She is an author and co-author of three monographs, including recent “Ignorance and Change. Her most recent project that she carries out in cooperation with Alexandra Schwell at the University of Klagenfurt combines the perspectives of rhythmanalysis, political anthropology and critical plant studies. It is devoted to the role of urgency and temporality in the design and implementation of urban greening projects.
Kontakt
Dr. Janine Schemmer (janine [dot] schemmer [at] aau [dot] at)
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