Future Pasts in an Apocalyptic Moment: A Hybrid Analysis of 'Green' Performativities and Ecocultural Ethics in a Globalised African Landscape
Lead Research Organisation:
Bath Spa University
Department Name: School of Humanities
Abstract
This project investigates how different ideas of the past, in particular imagined past relationships between people and nature, are conditioning the futures being urgently created now in pursuit of 'sustainability' and the avoidance of 'environmental crisis'. It explores tensions between traditional, indigenous and local conceptions of human/nature relationships, on the one hand, and new conceptions underlying modern market-based methods for creating 'green' futures, on the other. We will do this through in-depth field research in western Namibia - where three of our team members have long-term research experience - and in collaboration with our local institutional partner, the National Museum of Namibia.
Problems such as 'environmental change' and 'sustainability' are complex and require analysis that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Our research, therefore, applies methods and theory from Cultural Geography, Ethnomusicology, Environmental History, Philosophy and Social Anthropology. Our field location encapsulates tensions present in many contemporary circumstances. Here, old and new conceptions of human/nature relationships are colliding spectacularly as resources such as uranium are extracted from land which is home to some of the oldest cultures on earth, as well as to highly valued (and endangered) animal and plant species.
Through engaging with diverse actors in corporate, state, NGO and local contexts, we will explore the environmental change understandings informing a range of new 'green' entities that are being created, marketed and exchanged so as to generate sustainability. We will juxtapose these 'sustainability objects' with ways that landscape and other species are conceived and remembered in local indigenous culture, as encoded in stories, song, dance and healing rituals. Our selected, interconnected and commodified 'green things' are, i) 'green uranium' (so-called because of its alleged contribution to low-carbon generation but also because the impacts of its extraction are to be 'offset'), ii) biodiversity offsets (in which environmental harm arising from development in one location is offset by conservation activity elsewhere), iii) natural products derived from indigenous plant knowledge, iv) animal hunting trophies, and v) KhoeSan rock art heritage.
This research will enhance humanities understandings of how new 'green' objects act, and are perceived to act, to 'perform sustainability', and thereby to transfer past social and environmental health forwards into the future. We will complement this by in-depth analysis of perceptions regarding environmental change, assisted by the collation and exhibiting of repeat landscape photographs. In these, contemporary photographs reveal how landscapes have changed (or not) since early archival images, dating back to the late 1800s, were made.
A key and iterative component of our project is the exhibiting of images, audio and video material from our research, both at the Museum in Windhoek and as mobile exhibitions in varied field contexts within Namibia. We intend this to stimulate open discussion regarding ideas of environmental change and sustainable futures, and thereby generate further research data. We will also foster public engagement through a project website with the URL www.futurepasts.net.
Results from these interconnected research strands will be synthesised and theorised in a further strand. This will examine the philosophical and ethical issues arising at the interfaces between different culturally-bound understandings of human/nature relations. Our work here will flesh-out a new cross-disciplinary domain of 'ecocultural ethics' that considers sustainability imaginaries as entwined with the cultural production of particular pasts, presents and futures. This juxtaposition of competing ethical principles underlying different sustainability perspectives will draw together the empirical material analysed in the rest of the project.
Problems such as 'environmental change' and 'sustainability' are complex and require analysis that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Our research, therefore, applies methods and theory from Cultural Geography, Ethnomusicology, Environmental History, Philosophy and Social Anthropology. Our field location encapsulates tensions present in many contemporary circumstances. Here, old and new conceptions of human/nature relationships are colliding spectacularly as resources such as uranium are extracted from land which is home to some of the oldest cultures on earth, as well as to highly valued (and endangered) animal and plant species.
Through engaging with diverse actors in corporate, state, NGO and local contexts, we will explore the environmental change understandings informing a range of new 'green' entities that are being created, marketed and exchanged so as to generate sustainability. We will juxtapose these 'sustainability objects' with ways that landscape and other species are conceived and remembered in local indigenous culture, as encoded in stories, song, dance and healing rituals. Our selected, interconnected and commodified 'green things' are, i) 'green uranium' (so-called because of its alleged contribution to low-carbon generation but also because the impacts of its extraction are to be 'offset'), ii) biodiversity offsets (in which environmental harm arising from development in one location is offset by conservation activity elsewhere), iii) natural products derived from indigenous plant knowledge, iv) animal hunting trophies, and v) KhoeSan rock art heritage.
This research will enhance humanities understandings of how new 'green' objects act, and are perceived to act, to 'perform sustainability', and thereby to transfer past social and environmental health forwards into the future. We will complement this by in-depth analysis of perceptions regarding environmental change, assisted by the collation and exhibiting of repeat landscape photographs. In these, contemporary photographs reveal how landscapes have changed (or not) since early archival images, dating back to the late 1800s, were made.
A key and iterative component of our project is the exhibiting of images, audio and video material from our research, both at the Museum in Windhoek and as mobile exhibitions in varied field contexts within Namibia. We intend this to stimulate open discussion regarding ideas of environmental change and sustainable futures, and thereby generate further research data. We will also foster public engagement through a project website with the URL www.futurepasts.net.
Results from these interconnected research strands will be synthesised and theorised in a further strand. This will examine the philosophical and ethical issues arising at the interfaces between different culturally-bound understandings of human/nature relations. Our work here will flesh-out a new cross-disciplinary domain of 'ecocultural ethics' that considers sustainability imaginaries as entwined with the cultural production of particular pasts, presents and futures. This juxtaposition of competing ethical principles underlying different sustainability perspectives will draw together the empirical material analysed in the rest of the project.
Planned Impact
Our project engages with diverse peoples with a range of interests in environmental change and sustainability in the geographical landscape of our research (western Namibia). They include local people (primarily Damara and Herero), NGOs (in environmental conservation and tourism), business leaders (in natural products industries, tourism lodge management, trophy hunting enterprises, and uranium mining), and Namibian representatives on national and international environmental policy bodies (such as the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme). We already have connections with a range of these actors, locations and organisations, which we will foster through this research.
As such, our research will be relevant for a range of potential beneficiaries with interests in projections of environmental change, perceptions regarding culture/nature relationships, and the ways these inform environmental understanding and sustainability policy solutions.
The project is designed to facilitate and emphasise public engagement activities in Namibia at specific moments during the research (see Work Package 5). These will enhance possibilities for both the sharing of our research material and the co-production of knowledge with diverse actors, as delineated above. Our public engagement activities and events will take place in a range of contexts. They will combine exhibitions both housed by the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek, with travelling presentations that can take place in the specific sites of our research, including in local communities and at business operations such as mines and tourism sites.
We will also create a public project website, incorporating popular social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These online media are used in Namibia as elsewhere, and will enable interested parties, including non-academic users, to learn of and engage with our research. This will facilitate the creation of an online social network with interests in our research foci. Material published and made available online will be subject to ethical consideration, in accordance with our ethical policy.
Through these activities we intend to generate and reach a broad and expanding range of users of, and beneficiaries from, our research (see Pathways to Impact statement). We envisage that non-academic users of the research will derive benefits in the following ways:
- Exposure to a diversity of views and perspectives regarding environmental change and sustainability possibilities will foster greater understanding regarding the contemporary environmental moment and the concerns and desires of different groups of people.
- Public exhibitions and events in varied Namibian contexts that are designed to foster creative sharing and community memory regarding environmental change and sustainability trajectories, will enhance community and public knowledge regarding diverse perspectives on environmental issues.
- The creative and cultural industries in Namibia, via our collaborations with the National Museum of Namibia and with Mamokobo Film and Production, will benefit from the generation of content for public exhibitions and presentation events.
- Environmental policy-makers in all sectors will benefit from enhanced engagement and information regarding public understanding of environmental change and sustainability trajectories. All members of the research team already contribute to public policy development and debate (see CVs) and we will extend such activities through the proposed research.
Our public engagement activities will be accompanied by regular possibilities for feedback and evaluation by participants so as to facilitate the assessment and reporting of impacts. This will also permit us make improvements to our public engagement activities as the project progresses.
As such, our research will be relevant for a range of potential beneficiaries with interests in projections of environmental change, perceptions regarding culture/nature relationships, and the ways these inform environmental understanding and sustainability policy solutions.
The project is designed to facilitate and emphasise public engagement activities in Namibia at specific moments during the research (see Work Package 5). These will enhance possibilities for both the sharing of our research material and the co-production of knowledge with diverse actors, as delineated above. Our public engagement activities and events will take place in a range of contexts. They will combine exhibitions both housed by the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek, with travelling presentations that can take place in the specific sites of our research, including in local communities and at business operations such as mines and tourism sites.
We will also create a public project website, incorporating popular social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These online media are used in Namibia as elsewhere, and will enable interested parties, including non-academic users, to learn of and engage with our research. This will facilitate the creation of an online social network with interests in our research foci. Material published and made available online will be subject to ethical consideration, in accordance with our ethical policy.
Through these activities we intend to generate and reach a broad and expanding range of users of, and beneficiaries from, our research (see Pathways to Impact statement). We envisage that non-academic users of the research will derive benefits in the following ways:
- Exposure to a diversity of views and perspectives regarding environmental change and sustainability possibilities will foster greater understanding regarding the contemporary environmental moment and the concerns and desires of different groups of people.
- Public exhibitions and events in varied Namibian contexts that are designed to foster creative sharing and community memory regarding environmental change and sustainability trajectories, will enhance community and public knowledge regarding diverse perspectives on environmental issues.
- The creative and cultural industries in Namibia, via our collaborations with the National Museum of Namibia and with Mamokobo Film and Production, will benefit from the generation of content for public exhibitions and presentation events.
- Environmental policy-makers in all sectors will benefit from enhanced engagement and information regarding public understanding of environmental change and sustainability trajectories. All members of the research team already contribute to public policy development and debate (see CVs) and we will extend such activities through the proposed research.
Our public engagement activities will be accompanied by regular possibilities for feedback and evaluation by participants so as to facilitate the assessment and reporting of impacts. This will also permit us make improvements to our public engagement activities as the project progresses.
Organisations
- Bath Spa University (Lead Research Organisation)
- The British Library (Collaboration)
- University of Namibia (Collaboration)
- Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) (Collaboration)
- !Khwa ttu (Collaboration)
- Museums Association of Namibia (Collaboration)
- University of Cape Town (Collaboration)
- Arts Association Heritage Trust (Namibia) (Collaboration)
- Gobabeb Training and Research Centre (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
Publications
Sullivan S
(2017)
What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy'
in Journal of Political Ecology
Sullivan S
(2022)
Maps and memory, rights and relationships: articulations of global modernity and local dwelling in delineating land for a communal-area conservancy in north-west Namibia.
in Conserveries Mémorielles: Revue Transdisciplinaire
Sullivan S
(2022)
!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: a cultural history through three photographed encounters.
in Journal of the Namibian Scientific Society
Sullivan S
(2017)
"Mathematics maybe, but not money": On balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting
in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
Sullivan S
(2021)
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
Sullivan S
(2017)
On 'Natural Capital', 'Fairy Tales' and Ideology Review Essay: Natural Capital, Fairy Tales and Ideology
in Development and Change
| Title | 'Re-presenting photography in Namibia' (Rohde) |
| Description | Rohde assisted the director of the Annual Visual Art Museum Programme (AVAMP) 2015 at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek, to contextualise and caption photographic work from west Namibia that he curated during the 1990s (Matida Sida ra Mûgu: How We See Each Other). This work was re-shown as part of the exhibition 'Re-presenting photography in Namibia' (May - August 2015). |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The exhibition sought to give a concise overview of the development of photography in Namibia, and more so regarding the changing view of the lens in the past years. Showing a selection of historical, documentary and fine art photography, including photos from the colonial era through to the dawn of Namibia's Independence, as well as contemporary works of today. The exhibition attracted broad audiences as well as write-ups in the media, e.g. http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=137470&page=archive-read |
| URL | http://www.staytoday.com.na/events/avamp-exhibition-re-presenting-photography-in-namibia |
| Title | Bee Song |
| Description | Sullivan's research with local Namibian collaborator (Welhemina Suro Ganuses) on the Dammann-Khoekhoegowab language archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien has led to one recomposition of a 1954 recording, through a collaboration with UK-based recording artist Toby Marks / Banco de Gaia - both the 1954 and 2020 recordings can be heard online at https://soundcloud.com/futurepasts/sets/a-bee-song. |
| Type Of Art | Composition/Score |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | This recomposition has been played publicly, and apparently appreciated, in one dance event in the UK ('Eat Static & Banco De Gaia Extra Date', https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/event/eat-static-banco-de-gaia-extra-date/, and included in a listening booth in a forthcoming exhibition by Basler Afrika Bibliographien celebrating 50 years of its institutional history. |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/futurepasts/sets/a-bee-song |
| Title | From the !Uniab river to |Giribes plains - a aerial photographs video installation of landscape beauty in north-west Namibia |
| Description | This montage of images has been made by Sian Sullivan through knitting together around 100 very high resolution 2008 aerial photographs purchased from the Directorate of Survey and Mapping in Windhoek Namibia. It is inspired by the visual beauty of the west Namibian landscape when viewed from above. The montage was created as a video installation in the exhibition 'Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia' held at Gallery 44AD in Bath, UK, in 2017 (https://www.futurepasts.net/gallery-44ad-bath-july-august-2017) and at COSDEF Community Arts Venue in Swakopmund, Namibia, in 2019 (https://www.futurepasts.net/cosdef-swakopmund-namibia-june-2019). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Multiple viewings at the Future Pasts exhibition, contributing to impact of the exhibition (see other entries). |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/225688509 |
| Title | Future Pasts exhibition Bath 44AD |
| Description | Our multi-media exhibition "Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia" distils aspects of the Future Pasts research project - arts and humanities engagement with how ideas and assumptions about the past - particularly about past relationships between people and the natural world - affect the futures being created now in pursuit of 'sustainability'. The exhibition uses photography, video and audio to journey through a selection of themes we have explored through our research: "place", "music", "healing", "change", "landscape", "memory" and "mining". We close by making reference to the complex Dama / ?Nukhoen ancestor-hero-trickster character of Haiseb, who reminds us of the mysterious and unpredictable, as well as the often unfathomable and funny, natures of existence. See blog article about the exhibition at https://www.futurepasts.net/post/2017/07/20/future-pasts-exhibition-hosts-private-view |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The exhibition was visited by several hundred people, many of whom left comments recorded in our comments-book at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5ba6bf_357a1b24e8dc4db0878c23ea3da3eba3.pdf It was selected as 'Pick of the Week' by the regional arts network Visuals Arts South West, who stated in their review that: "The collaborative and multi-disciplinary exhibition is underpinned by an academic rigour that enhances the power of the themes of 'sustainability, identity and displacement'. . . This exhibition powerfully, yet peacefully, demonstrates the beauty of the country whilst highlighting issues pertinent to the people whose home it is." The exhibition formed a focus for student visits associated with the Association of Commonwealth Universities summer school in August 2017, and student and practitioner visitors through a 'Curating research as practice' workshop held in July at Bath Spa University. The private view of the exhibition was visited by the Mayor of Bath amongst other local dignitaries and artists, as well as invited guests. Composite images from the section on 'Memory' have been returned locally in Namibia, to participants in the research as well as for exhibiting at the Save the Rhino Trust resource centre, the Sesfontein Conservancy office, and to the Museums Association of Namibia for inclusion their archive. |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/gallery-44ad-bath-july-august-2017 |
| Title | Future Pasts exhibition, Swakopmund, Namibia 5-15 June 2019 |
| Description | The Future Pasts exhibition and accompanying documentation was devised specifically to communicate key threads of research in the AHRC Future Pasts research project to diverse public audiences in the UK and Namibia, as well as online. The aim was to create a contemplative space where the themes of sustainability, identity and displacement weaving through the research would be evoked through beyond-text visual and sonic contributions. The multi-media exhibition "Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia" thus distils aspects of the Future Pasts research project, an arts and humanities engagement with how ideas and assumptions about the past - particularly about past relationships between people and the natural world - affect the futures being created now in pursuit of 'sustainability'. The exhibition uses photography, video and audio to journey through a selection of themes we have explored through our research: "place", "music", "healing", "change", "landscape", "memory" and "mining". We close by making reference to the complex Dama / ?Nukhoen ancestor-hero-trickster character of Haiseb, who reminds us of the mysterious and unpredictable, as well as the often unfathomable and funny, natures of existence. A blog article about curating the exhibition in Swakopmund, Namibia in June 2019 is online and details some of the public engagements linked with the visits (for example, schools visits) - see https://www.futurepasts.net/post/2019/07/04/future-pasts-exhibition-curated-in-namibia A 2nd edition of the booklet accompanying the exhibition is online at https://www.futurepasts.net/exhibition-booklet-2nd-edn-2019 |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Access to the exhibition in Swakopmund (Namibia) was enhanced through supporting school visits and facilitating viewings by Damara / ?Nukhoen peoples whose families have been involved in the research. Several hundred people visited the exhibition. Comments recorded in our comments book (at https://www.futurepasts.net/comments-book-cosdef-june-2019) demonstrate the local significance of the exhibition: for example, "The project brings to life and revives the culture, traditions and memories of our people's untold land. It is a documentation of our peoples' rich history. The residents of north west Namibia through this project have the opportunity to tell their stories/history and how they were affected by changes and how they face the future" (Swakopmund/Sesfontein resident). COSDEF Community Arts Venue additionally reported the local educational impact of the exhibition: "the exhibition did not only consist of beautiful photographs, but was informative as well. For our Visual Art students this was also an opportunity to see the logistics of how to set up a professional exhibition". Several representatives of two of our partner organisations - Save the Rhino Trust and Gobabeb Namib Research Institute - were able to visit the exhibition. Gobabeb's Research Manager Eugène Marais wrote of how much he appreciated how the exhibition shares 'stories, memories and knowledge of the people that inhabit the spaces that we so often pass through and know so little about'. Jeff Muntifering, Science Advisor to Save the Rhino Trust, wrote that the exhibition encompasses a 'very inspiring collection of stories & song - so worth preserving!' Basilia Shivute of IRDNC (Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation) shared how the exhibition made her feel 'proud of our national cultural heritage' and specifically thanked Welhemina Suro Ganuses - Future Pasts Namibian research collaborator from Sesfontein - for 'being our ambassador'. Some visitors were Namibian residents or tourists to the country who heard about the exhibition through word of mouth: 'A most informative exhibition showing survival of indigenous people in a harsh, yet so beautiful landscape! Memories of these peoples are collected and displayed, which is very important for the memories of Namibians' (Swakopmund resident) 'Super-interesting exhibition - it's great to see the changes that took place across these different themes. The situations of change from various sources is really awesome to see' (Tourist from Edinburgh, Scotland) In the second week of the exhibition, around 200 students from two Swakopmund High Schools braved the dramatic seasonal east wind to visit the exhibition, as reported on the venue's facebook page on 17 June 2019 - 'Thank you to Namib High School and Westside High for visiting the Future Pasts Exhibition here at the Centre on Friday. It was great having so many kids at the Centre. ... And finally, A BIG THANK YOU to the Future Pasts Project for bringing your amazing exhibition to COSDEF. Was truly worth experiencing and wish more people had the privilege of seeing this.' |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/cosdef-swakopmund-namibia-june-2019 |
| Title | Haiseb - a video of research progress |
| Description | A short video describing one aspect of my research for the project. The video concerns the KhoeSan folk figure, Haiseb. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Scholars and members of the public can easily access our research work. The video can be developed as a product for the local people it concerns. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/202618340 |
| Title | Radio programme on the 2016 Damara King's Festival |
| Description | Partnered with BBC radio presenter, Robin Denselow to produce programme on the 2016 Damara King's Festival (Okombahe, Namibia 2016) for Radio 3 "World on Three" |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The programme was the first-ever documentation of the annual Damara King's festival, and will be rebroadcast in Namibia in the forthcoming year. Impact based on public dissemination of information about Damara history and music. |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009vs65 |
| Title | Short film - 'Exploring Re-embodiments' for Bodily Undoing and Somatic Activism Symposium, BSU, Sept. 2017' |
| Description | Short film sequence created as a contribution by Sian Sullivan from afar to the symposium 'Bodily Undoing and Somatic Activism Symposium' held at Bath Spa University in September 2017 - see https://bodilyundoing.wordpress.com/ |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Multiple viewings and led to Sullivan becoming a member of the Creative Corporealities Research Group at Bath Spa University - see https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/creative-corporealities/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/233887180 |
| Title | Short film - 'Hildegaart |Nuas at Kai-as Festival, May 2019' |
| Description | This short film is one of three made to celebrate the 90th year of a participant in Future Pasts research - Hildegaart |Gugowa |Nuas of Sesfontein / !Nani-|aus in north-west Namibia. In May 2019 Hildegaart was the oldest member of a journey facilitated by the Future Pasts project, with the Sesfontein Conservancy, the Namidaman Traditional Authority and Save the Rhino Trust, to take members of Sesfontein's Hoanib Cultural Group to the former dwelling site of Kai-as in today's Palmwag Tourism Concession. This is a place where senior Damara / ?Nukhoe and ?Ubun people now living in Sesfontein remember meeting and playing their |gais praise songs and arus healing dances. Film by Sian Sullivan, with some footage by Oliver Halsey. We are currently making a longer film documenting this first 'Kai-as Festival'. For more information see blog article at https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Film included in a blog article written following request from Namidaman Traditional Authority (Sesfontein) north-west Namibia, to celebrate the 90th year of one of the eldest research participants in Sullivan's research for the Future Pasts project (https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein). Representatives of the Namidaman Traditional Authority wrote to express appreciation for the article and its oral history and filmed record of experiences that are little documented, and has requested further research on related concerns. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/380479883 |
| Title | Short film - 'Hildegaart |Nuas of Sesfontein sings about the Hoanib' |
| Description | In this short film - one of three made to celebrate the 90th year of a participant in Future Pasts research - Hildegaart |Gugowa |Nuas of Sesfontein / !Nani-|aus in north-west Namibia sings one of her favourite |gais or praise songs about the Hoanib River where she grew up. The song tells of how six women were collecting foods like sâu, bosû and ûias[1] and they became trapped on the other side of the river from their homes. They started singing to ask that they change into the birds that are called Kao, so that they can fly over the river back home. Kao birds (perhaps Egyptian geese?) are also seen to fly in sixes. This is a story that her grandparents told her. Film by Sian Sullivan. For more information see futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein [1] Sâu, bosû and ûias are the names of important food plants - respectively the seeds of Stipagrostis species grasses and Monsonia plants of the geranium family which can be gathered from the nests of harvesters (see second section of the blog at futurepasts.net/post/2018/10/16/crossing-continents-with-future-pasts-a-tale-of-three-conferences), and edible corms that are abundant after rains. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film is included in a blog article written following request from Namidaman Traditional Authority (Sesfontein) north-west Namibia, to celebrate the 90th year of one of the eldest research participants in Sullivan's research for the Future Pasts project (https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein). Representatives of the Namidaman Traditional Authority wrote to express appreciation for the article and its oral history and filmed record of experiences that are little documented, and has requested further research on related concerns. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/379607987 |
| Title | Short film - 'Hildegaart |Nuas remembers harvesting !nara in the dune fields of the Hoanib' |
| Description | In this short film - one of three made to celebrate the 90th year of a participant in Future Pasts research - Hildegaart |Gugowa |Nuas of Sesfontein / !Nani-|aus in north-west Namibia remembers how when she was little her parents would harvest the !nara fruit at !nara fields in the Hoanib River. '!Nara' is the local name for the melon plant Acanthosicyos horridus. This plant is endemic to the Namib desert and an important food for people who have been able to access coastal areas where the !nara grows. Film by Sian Sullivan. For more information see https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film was included in a blog article written following request from Namidaman Traditional Authority (Sesfontein) north-west Namibia, to celebrate the 90th year of one of the eldest research participants in Sullivan's research for the Future Pasts project (https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein). Representatives of the Namidaman Traditional Authority wrote to express appreciation for the article and its oral history and filmed record of experiences that are little documented, and has requested further research on related concerns. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/380044842 |
| Title | Short film - 'Keli flute song from Sesfontein' |
| Description | This short video combines an audio recording made in 2017 when playing a 1999 recording of a flute song from Sesfontein, north-west Namibia, made by ethnomusicologists Emmanuelle Olivier and Minette Mans to inhabitants of Sesfontein - Emma Ganuses and Welhemina Suro Ganuses - who remembered the music. This process demonstrates that although the flute music is no longer played, people remain today who remember the songs, the flautists, the contexts in which the music was played, and the meanings of the music and accompanying performances. Suro and her aunt Emma remember the songs, and started singing them as they heard them for the first time in around 20 years. The short audio track and accompanying images (by Sian Sullivan and Emmanuelle Olivier) is of the moment of first listening to Olivier's 1999 recording, focusing in on the song Keli, which refers to the shawl that a girl would start to wear in the past as part of societal recognition that she has become a woman. The recording shared here includes Suro's and Emma's moment of recognition of Keli, and then their recall of the melody, words and clapped rhythm of the song. Film sequence made by Sian Sullivan. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times on vimeo, and shown at the international conference on The Past, Present and Future of Namibian Heritage, Windhoek, Namibia, August 2018. Also see last section of https://www.futurepasts.net/post/2018/10/16/crossing-continents-with-future-pasts-a-tale-of-three-conferences |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/295452930 |
| Title | Short film - 'Mining Landscapes of Namibia - Future Pasts Exhibition presentation' |
| Description | An online image sequence created by Mike Hannis of Future Pasts research regarding the significance and histories of mining in west Namibia. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Shown to multiple viewers in the Future Pasts exhibition curated in Bath, UK (2017), and Swakopmund, Namibia (2019). |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/226813678 |
| Title | Short film - 'Repeat Landscape Photographs from the Namib - Future Pasts exhibition presentation' |
| Description | Short film made by Rick Rohde sharing images and details for 11 repeat landscape photographs in west Namibia to inform about the study of socio-environmental change. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Shown to multiple viewers in the Future Pasts exhibition. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/226876291 |
| Title | Short film - 'Sorris Sorris visit march 2016 video blog' |
| Description | A weekend with the Sorris Sorris community of north western Namibia, March 2016. Future Pasts researcher Chris Low, filmmaker Andy Botelle and photographer Silvia Diez recorded stories about Haiseb, fairy circles, plant use, music and dance. Introducing the landscapes and people living near the Brandberg mountain (Dâures). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times and drawn on in developing website on 'Haiseb - tracking a folk hero of the KhoeSan' at https://www.thinkingthreads.org/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/258626606 |
| Title | Short film - 'Sorris Sorris, Chris saying goodbye' |
| Description | Future Pasts researcher Chris Low, filmmaker Andy Botelle and photographer Silvia Diez say goodbye to the people of Sorris Sorris who helped record music, song, landscapes, plant use and stories near the Brandberg mountain (Dâures). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times and drawn on in developing website on 'Haiseb - tracking a folk hero of the KhoeSan' at https://www.thinkingthreads.org/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/258633120 |
| Title | Short film - 'Three films at Sorris Sorris - 3. Celebration and Healing' |
| Description | A weekend with the Sorris Sorris community of north western Namibia. Future Pasts researcher Chris Low, filmmaker Andy Botelle and photographer Silvia Diez recorded music and celebrations performed by the Sorris Sorris community living near the Brandberg mountain (Dâures). This film includes the children of the assembled adults performing Nama style dancing. It was the first time they had performed these dances beyond their community. The second section of the film is a re-enactment of a healing dance or arus. This was tricky to film both because of the dark and because of Hanna's very strong voice. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times and drawn on in developing website on 'Haiseb - tracking a folk hero of the KhoeSan' at https://www.thinkingthreads.org/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/258623145 |
| Title | Short film - 'Three films from Sorris Sorris - 2. Plants' |
| Description | A weekend with the Sorris Sorris community of north western Namibia. Future Pasts researcher Chris Low, filmmaker Andy Botelle and photographer Silvia Diez recorded stories about the uses of some indigenous plants used by the Sorris Sorris community living near the Brandberg mountain (Dâures). This film shows a demonstration of traditional resource use, ranging from consumable berries to grass seed beer, sâi perfume, medicine plants and a goat skin. An early shot in the film includes a beautiful demonstration of how to separate food from other matter by tossing it in an oblong wooden '?gôub'. The closing sequence includes a traditional song and dance carried out by an elderly gentleman. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times and drawn on in developing website on 'Haiseb - tracking a folk hero of the KhoeSan' at https://www.thinkingthreads.org/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/258611316 |
| Title | Short film - Ruben Sanib tells the story of the Damara warrior Tua-Kuri-?Nameb, Sesfontein, west Namibia 140315 |
| Description | This story was filmed on 14 March 2015 at the site of a small cave known by Damara / ?Nukhoe elders in Sesfontein as 'Tua-kuri-?nameb !hoas'. This is the cave ('!hoas') of Tua-kuri-?nameb, a famous Damara warrior who rescued several children who had been kidnapped from a spring and dwelling place called ?Naos, situated to the west of Sesfontein. The story goes that the children had been left behind with old people, as their parents went down towards the Hoanib River to gather 'xoris', the fruits of Salvador persica that have been an important source of food in the dry months around October. This was at a time recalled as when everyone was raiding and fighting each other. A time when livestock, children and women were frequently simply stolen from kraals and homesteads, as overlapping and shifting claims to land in the 1800s led to expansions of both Herero-speaking people and Nama commandoes with firearms into this north-western region of Namibia. The narrator in this video, a renowned Damara / ?Nukhoe former hunter called Ruben Saunaeib Sanib, describes how a number of Himba warriors found the children at ?Naos and grabbed them, then ran with them towards ?Os, the pass eastwards from Sesfontein between two mountains (called ?Naueb and !Noadeb). As Ruben describes, '[n]ow when the women came back to ?Naos they did not see the children there and they told Tua-kuri-?nameb and Tua-kuri-?nameb was running from there. And he got ahead of the Hereros, and he was waiting here for them at this cave. And when the Hereros came here he shoot first his arrow, and when they pick up the arrow and check it they say "no, this is Tua-kuri-?nameb arrow!" [he was a famous person, known for never missing a shot. They said his arrows were barbed so you couldn't pull them out] And then he shoots .. one, two, three, four And the Herero men ran away but only after he had killed four men at this place - the grave is at that mound down below the cave. And then he collected the children and went back to ?Naos.' Story narrated by Ruben Sauneib Sanib, translated by Welhemina Suro Ganuses, and recorded and filmed for Future Pasts research (www.futurepasts.net) by Sian Sullivan on 14 March 2015. Accompanied by Filemon |Nuab and Ezekiel |Awaras. Shared with permission. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The video has been watched multiple times in Namibia and has been built on in subsequent oral history and mapping research. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/160633314 |
| Title | Short film - Three films from Sorris Sorris - 1. Landscape |
| Description | One of several films made during a A weekend with the Sorris Sorris community of north western Namibia in March 2016. Future Pasts researcher Chris Low, filmmaker Andy Botelle and photographer Silvia Diez recorded stories about the landscapes and people living near the Brandberg mountain (Dâures), including Haiseb's footprints, fairy circles and the site of the Dâures cultural festival. In this film Hanna leads us off to find evidence of Haiseb - a well-known Khoe and San trickster-ancestor-hero - in the local landscape. It was extraordinary how patient and generous Hanna's team were in showing us Haiseb footprints and dancing circles in temperatures of around 45°. This look at Haiseb signs was then followed by a visit to a long abandoned Damara cultural village. Hanna's dedication to maintaining her heritage is evident in the beautiful way she sets up a call and response with the children around the folk figure name 'Haiseb'. For more information see https://www.futurepasts.net/post/2018/03/14/storytelling-at-sorris-sorris |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Viewed multiple times and drawn on in developing website on 'Haiseb - tracking a folk hero of the KhoeSan' at https://www.thinkingthreads.org/ |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/258603577 |
| Title | Short films from Sorris Sorris Storytelling event in 2016 |
| Description | For more information please see research blog at www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/03/14/Storytelling-at-Sorris-Sorris |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | These films have just gone online so it's too early to say. |
| URL | http://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/03/14/Storytelling-at-Sorris-Sorris |
| Title | The Damara King's Festival film |
| Description | This film presents highlights from the 2016 Damara King's Festival, an annual event taking place in the village of Okombahe in west Namibia. Now in its 37th year, Damara/?Nukhoe people gather at the festival to sing, dance, eat, and receive counsel from their king, Justus |Uruhe ?Garoëb. Lineages from all over the country arrive dressed in the emblematic blue, green and white of the Damara nation. Women wear long Victorian dresses and shawls that mimic the attire of influential colonial missionaries whilst men are adorned in matching T-shirts and remnants of colonial and WWI military paraphernalia. Others remember their pre-colonial pasts by wearing costumes made of skins of the wild animals that supported their forebears. In 2016 the festival took place at the end of an intense three-year drought. Calling for rain formed a major focus of the festival which, in a potent moment of relief and gratitude, was blessed by the first showers of the season. Overall, the festival is an annual ritual of renewal enabling performers and audience alike to 'think aloud' about their identities, histories and imaginaries for the future. It is not staged for outside consumption. The Namibian film organisation Mamokobo, through the AHRC-funded research project Future Pasts and in collaboration with the Damara King's Festival Organising Committee, is therefore privileged to have made the first filmed record of this event. The performative and participatory ethos of festivals gives voice to cultural identities, vividly conveying people's sense of community, place and belonging. Having been profoundly displaced by German colonialism (1884-1915) and by seven decades of discriminatory South African rule, this film offers an intimate portrait of one community's diverse celebration of itself. The complexity of expression distilled in our film refracts development trajectories that may simplify cultural identities and concerns. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Shown as an integral part of our project exhibition in July-August 2017 (https://www.futurepasts.net/gallery-44ad-bath-july-august-2017). Shortlisted for AHRC Research in Film awards, category 'International Development: Mobilising Global Voices'. Reported in The Namibian newspaper https://www.namibian.com.na/171747/archive-read/Damara-film-in-top-10-at-British-film-awards. Request by the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) for DVDs of the film to be sponsored and distributed as part of their 2017 School Clubs and Museums Exhibition (SCAMX) Competition (12-15 September 2017), intended to enhance innovation and transformative development, as well as heritage awareness, amongst Namibian young people. Sixteen schools throughout Namibia who applied to participate in the competition were reached through the distribution of films by Future Pasts. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/224051477 |
| Title | The Music Returns to Kai-as |
| Description | In May 2019, the Future Pasts project, with local organisations in north-west Namibia (the Sesfontein Conservancy, the Namidaman Traditional Authority, and Save the Rhino Trust Namibia), supported the Hoanib Cultural Group from Sesfontein to return to Kai-as - a place where people once lived. Kai-as is mentioned as an important place in peoples' pasts in oral history research with elderly people now living on the edge of a major tourism concession. Kai-as and its strong spring of sweet water feature in peoples' memory as where they would meet when rain season foods became available in this arid landscape. These congregations are remembered as times when people would play their |gais praise songs and arus healing dances. 'Our hearts were happy there', they said. In the decades since, access has been restricted to places important in peoples' pasts as land areas were claimed for mining, commercial farming, conservation and tourism. Our film "The Music Returns to Kai-as" documents the first 'Kai-as Festival' held from 22-24 May 2019, in which Sesfontein's Hoanib Cultural Group returned to play - once again - their |gais songs and arus healing dances there. It celebrates peoples' resilience in the face of the extreme marginalisation and exclusion effected by processes of colonisation and apartheid. ~ Nb. Polyphonic songs are an important part of this film. We recommend using headphones for the audio to experience the full depth and complexity of this music. A large part of the second half of the film is an arus healing dance sequence. The songs and practices here are part of a healing tradition that, whilst not static, is generations old. It is a healing technology and understanding of the causes of, and ways of resolving, dis-ease that comes from a time prior to peoples' contact with allopathic medicine and that now exists alongside allopathic medicine. A concern that is often mentioned now is around how the changes happening as modernity takes hold, mean that young people are not being called to become arus healers.~ Notes. This film is shared with the permission of and is shared with the permission of the Namidaman Traditional Authority and the Hoanib Cultural Group of Sesfontein in north-west Namibia. Future Pasts researchers Sian Sullivan (Bath Spa University) and Welhemina Suro Ganuses (Save the Rhino Trust and Sesfontein resident) facilitated "The Music Returns to Kai-as", with all filming by Bristol-based Namibia specialist film-maker Oliver Halsey (oliverhalsey.net/). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | "It's really amazing and quite frankly it's also tearful for those that know and understand |gais and arus songs in detail... the sound quality and film quality is very excellent. Thanks for your commitment and time spent on developing the film of this quality. Kai-aios (Thank you)." These are the words of Mr Fredrick ||Hawaxab, Namidaman Traditional Authority, Sesfontein on 7 December 2020, on first seeing the film The Music Returns to Kai-as. The film has been shared locally and additional edits of material from filmed field research in 2019 are now being made. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/486865709 |
| Description | The AHRC Care for the Future (Environmental Change and Sustainability) project 'Future Pasts' is a fieldwork and theory intensive Environmental Humanities research project. It engages with the globalised African landscape of west Namibia in a cross- and trans-disciplinary exploration of perceptions and approaches to sustainability. All our strands of research highlight how understandings of 'the natural environment' are shaped by socio-cultural context, and have drawn attention to how historical and political dimensions underscore inclusions and exclusions in land distribution and environmental conservation policy. Oral history research and cultural landscapes mapping with indigenous Damara / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun peoples in west Namibia, for example, revealed a large range of past settlement localities and environmental practices unrepresented and arguably un(der)valued in present policy, as well as illuminating how people in the past were able to sustain livelihoods in an extreme dryland environment. A focus on stories, genealogies, song-dances and healing modalities has engendered greater visibility of different practices and modes of value in relation to natures, places and landscapes. Ethnographic research and discourse analysis of environmental policies and policy texts, in combination with ethical analysis, have excavated assumptions underpinning new market-based environmental conservation policies. Technical and 'universalising' calculative criteria juxtaposed with valuation practices in specific local contexts demonstrate how the latter may be more likely to negotiate plural value criteria and, in doing so, to support future biocultural diversities. Structured comparative analysis of a large dataset of repeat landscape images for west Namibia dating back to the late 1800s show a steady increase in woody vegetation across almost all habitat types, contributing to revised thinking regarding environmental and social change trajectories in these dryland landscapes. All project research publications and creative outputs (exhibition, films, audio) are shared on our website (www.futurepasts.net) and blog (https://www.futurepasts.net/blog-1), via social media (twitter @Future_Pasts, facebook https://www.facebook.com/futurepastsAHRC/, and instagram https://www.instagram.com/futurepastsahrc/) and on vimeo and soundcloud (https://vimeo.com/futurepasts and https://soundcloud.com/futurepasts respectively). The project has consolidated collaborations with all our listed project partners, as well as contributing to new and emerging collaborations with the University of Cologne, the University of Namibia and Basler Afrika Bibliographien. |
| Exploitation Route | Future Pasts research can be used to: - add to the range of voices and perspectives that might be included in the design of cultural and biodiversity heritage conservation endeavours in west Namibia; - make more visible the histories, concerns and values of marginalised indigenous communities in the region; - and contribute to understanding regarding climatic and environmental changes in landscapes of the Namib and pro-Namib. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://www.futurepasts.net |
| Description | We have extended the beyond-academic reach and impact of research carried out through Future Pasts in a number of ways. The multimedia Future Pasts exhibition and accompanying documentation was devised specifically to communicate key threads of research in the Future Pasts project to diverse public audiences in the UK and Namibia, as well as online. Using photography, video and audio our aim was to create a journey through a selection of themes we have explored through our research, through opening a contemplative space where the themes of sustainability, identity and displacement weaving through our research would be evoked. The exhibition has been visited by several hundred visitors, with visitor experiences and views recorded in our comments books from Bath (2017) and Swakopmund (2019). In Bath, UK, visitors shared that they felt they had learned something of other peoples' lives in a different environmental context and were inspired to pay more attention to the environmental and cultural contexts of their own lives. The exhibition's relevance to artists, organisations and professionals in the South West of England is evidenced by selection of the exhibition as 'Pick of the Week' by the Visual Arts South West network, who wrote, "The collaborative and multi-disciplinary exhibition is underpinned by an academic rigour that enhances the power of the themes of 'sustainability, identity and displacement' This exhibition powerfully, yet peacefully, demonstrates the beauty of the country whilst highlighting issues pertinent to the people whose home it is". In Swakopmund, Namibia, access to the exhibition was enhanced through supporting school visits and facilitating viewings by Damara / ?Nukhoe peoples whose families have been involved in the research. The comments recorded demonstrate the local significance of the research: for example, "The project brings to life and revives the culture, traditions and memories of our people's untold land. It is a documentation of our peoples' rich history. The residents of north west Namibia through this project have the opportunity to tell their stories/history and how they were affected by changes and how they face the future" (Swakopmund/Sesfontein resident). COSDEF Community Arts Venue additionally reported the local educational impact of the exhibition: "the exhibition did not only consist of beautiful photographs, but was informative as well. For our Visual Art students this was also an opportunity to see the logistics of how to set up a professional exhibition". Images and films have been returned to research participants and composite images from the exhibition section on 'Memory' are being exhibited at the Sesfontein Conservancy office in north-west Namibia. The full exhibition is online at https://www.futurepasts.net/exhibition A second key strategy for enhancing research impact has been through the making of film and radio outputs for public access and broadcast. With the Namibian film and production company, Mamokobo Film and Research, the 'The Damara King's Festival' film was created. The film was shortlisted in 2017 for an AHRC Research in Film Award (category 'International Development: Mobilising Global Voices') and reported in the Namibian national newspaper (see https://www.namibian.com.na/171747/archive-read/Damara-film-in-top-10-at-British-film-awards). BBC Radio presenter Robin Denselow made two radio programmes concerned with the Damara King's Festival, broadcast to large audiences on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in late 2016 and early 2017 respectively. Future Pasts responded to a request by the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) for DVDs of the film to be sponsored and distributed as part of their 2017 School Clubs and Museums Exhibition (SCAMX) Competition (12-15 September 2017), intended to enhance innovation and transformative development, as well as heritage awareness, amongst Namibian young people. Sixteen schools throughout Namibia who applied to participate in the competition were reached through the distribution of films by Future Pasts. A range of additional films are available for viewing on https://vimeo.com/futurepasts. For example, we have recently completed a 50 minute film "The Music Returns to Kai-as" which is being shared locally as documentary support for cultural heritage concerns, see https://vimeo.com/486865709 A third route for enhancing impact has been through contributing to texts intended to inform government policy, for example on 'The Commercialisation of Indigenous Natural Plant Products in Namibia' (2014) and for a major national review on 'Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-independence Namibia' (2020). Indigenous cultural landscapes mapping and oral history research in west Namibia led in 2019 to requests for expert testimony to Namibia's Ancestral Land Commission (appointed in 2018) through: i. a commissioned chapter for a national review of "Indigenous/Marginalised Peoples' land rights in Namibia" led by Namibian NGO the Legal Assistance Centre (http://www.lac.org.na/) and supported by the Africa Regional Democracy Fund of the US State Department; and ii) an interim report on 'Dama / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun cultural landscapes mapping, west Namibia' requested by the local Namidaman Traditional Authority (TA) in Sesfontein (Kunene Region, Namibia). These commissions constitute a substantive shift towards inclusion of specifically Damara / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun histories and concerns in national and international policy discourses regarding indigeneity, marginalisation and cultural landscapes, and have led to requests for further locally-relevant on-site oral history research. In 2020, the report to the LAC by Sullivan and Ganuses was cited and quoted multiple times in the final report submitted in July 2020 to the Office of the Prime Minister by the Ancestral Land Commission of the Namibian Government, meaning that the research informed high-level, and long-awaited, recommendations for Parliament to enact an 'ancestral land rights claim and restitution legislation'. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Invited expert testimony cited multiple times in final report submitted in July 2020 to the Office of the Prime Minister, by the Ancestral Land Commission of the Namibian Government, meaning that the research informed high-level, and long-awaited, recommendations for Parliament to enact an 'ancestral land rights claim and restitution legislation' |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| Impact | Land, marginalisation and restitution in west Namibia - With local Namibian collaborator WS Ganuses, Sullivan was requested by i. the Namibian NGO the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), and ii. the Namidaman Traditional Authority representing local concerns in north-west Namibia, to provide expert testimony to a national review of indigeneity and marginalisation for the Namibian government's Ancestral Land Commission, appointed in 2019 - source 1. This request arose from local awareness of underpinning research contributed by the Future Pasts and Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts projects, specifically on-site oral histories and cultural mapping research co-produced with local participants and the local and national Namibian partners mentioned in section 2. This request for expert testimony in itself represents a breakthrough in understanding towards the inclusion of specifically Damara / ?Nukhoe and ?Ubu histories and concerns in national policy review, from which these Indigenous peoples have tended to be excluded or marginalised. The final report submitted to the Office of the Prime Minister by the Ancestral Land Commission of the Namibian Government in July 2020, cites and quotes this expert testimony multiple times, meaning that the research informed high-level, and long-awaited, recommendations for Parliament to enact an 'ancestral land rights claim and restitution legislation'. |
| URL | https://opm.gov.na/documents/97540/1079527/REPORT++OF+THE+COMMISSION+OF+INQUIRY++INTO+CLAIMS+OF+ANCE... |
| Description | Report for new Management Plan, Skeleton Coast National Park |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Discussions are underway to facilitate access by local peoples to graves and other cultural sites within the Skeleton Coast National Park. |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp12-sullivan-2021 |
| Description | Accelerated Impact Fund, SOAS University of London |
| Amount | £4,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 11/2016 |
| Description | Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis and Cross-Case Synthesis of Oral Histories and History in Post-Conflict and Postcolonial Contexts |
| Amount | £79,794 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/N504579/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2016 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | Historicising Natures, Cultures and Laws in the Etosha-Kunene Conservation Territories of Namibia (https://www.etosha-kunene-histories.net/) |
| Amount | £327,023 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/T013230/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Title | "To Kunene from the Cape" |
| Description | Ongoing mapping of several centuries of information recorded in early European travel accounts in the south-western corner of Africa, starting from the emerging Cape colony of the 1600s. The focus is on locating geographically the earliest journeys northwards to the territory that became known as Namibia (the routes of key travellers are indicated with different coloured markers), emphasising approximate locations of European colonial interactions with indigenous Khoe and San peoples, as recorded in the various journals and texts studied. As well as reading early journals and other documents for this period in southern Africa's history, this mapping work has been assisted by a journey northwards to Kunene Region (Namibia) from Cape Town by Sian Sullivan and Mike Hannis in Aug-Oct 2017. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Built on research in this database in developing AH/T013230/1 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/kunene-from-cape |
| Title | Damara / ?Nukhoe and ?Ubu cultural landscapes mapping, west Namibia |
| Description | The map created here has been compiled through journeys conducted as part of a research project called Future Pasts (see www.futurepasts.net). The core team leading these journeys has consisted of: Sian Sullivan - Principal Investigator for the Future Pasts project; Welhemina Suro Ganuses - Sesfontein resident, administrator with Save the Rhino Trust Namibia and Khoekhoegowab-English translator; and Filemon |Nuab, Sesfontein resident and Conservancy Rhino Ranger and guide. The information included in the map is derived from different journeys to former dwelling places and other known localities in the broader landscape with a number of senior residents of the Hoanib River valley, especially Sesfontein / !Nani|aus and Kowareb. These elders are named with the information shared with each place marker. They include Ruben Sauneib Sanib, Sophia Opi |Awises, Franz ||Hoëb, Noag Mûgagara Ganaseb, Christophine Daumû Tauros, Michael |Amigu Ganaseb and Julia Tauros. Some places were also sought following their mention in a series of oral histories recorded in the late 1990s by Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro Ganuses and the map here thus builds on information from a diversity of people. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The cultural mapping and associated on-site oral history research collected together on this googlemaps database has contributed to the provision of expert testimony to the Namibiabn Government's Ancestral Land Commission (appointed 2018). It has formed the basis of an interim report on 'Dama / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun cultural landscapes mapping, west Namibia' requested by the local Namidaman Traditional Authority (TA) in Sesfontein (Kunene Region, Namibia), and used to support this TA's own submission in August 2019 to the Namibian government's Ancestral Land Commission. It has also formed part of a commissioned chapter for a national review of "Indigenous/Marginalised Peoples' land rights in Namibia" led by Namibian NGO the Legal Assistance Centre (http://www.lac.org.na/) and supported by the Africa Regional Democracy Fund of the US State Department (Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2020 Understanding Damara / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun indigeneity and marginalisation in Namibia, pp. 283-324 in Odendaal, W. and Werner, W. (eds.) 'Neither Here Nor There': Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-independence Namibia. Windhoek: Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre. ISBN 978-99945-61-58-2. |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/cultural-landscapes-mapping |
| Title | Multiple online maps spatialising literature review |
| Description | A series of maps that spatialise literature review underlying Future Pasts research, supported by 'Historical Sequences of References to Peoples and Places of West Namibia' at https://www.futurepasts.net/timeline-to-kunene-from-the-cape |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This online literature review and the spatialised reading of texts has contributed to requests for expert testimony regarding specifically Damara / ?Nukhoen and ||Ubun histories and concerns in national and international policy discourses regarding indigeneity, marginalisation and cultural landscapes in west Namibia (for example, i. Sullivan, S., Ganuses, W.S., |Nuab, F. and senior members of Sesfontein and Anabeb Conservancies, Dama / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun Cultural Landscapes Mapping, West Namibia, in progress report to Namidaman Traditional Authority, Sesfontein. Bath: Future Pasts, 6 August 2019; ii. Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2020 Understanding Damara / ?Nukhoen and ?Ubun indigeneity and marginalisation in Namibia, pp. 283-324 in Odendaal, W. and Werner, W. (eds.) 'Neither Here Nor There': Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-independence Namibia. Windhoek: Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre. ISBN 978-99945-61-58-2). It has also informed the development of a new collaborative research project with the University of Cologne and the University of Namibia - 'Historicising Natures, Cultures and Laws in the Etosha-Kunene Conservation Territories of Namibia' (AH/T013230/1) |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/maps-1 |
| Title | rePhotoSA |
| Description | Archival database of landscape imagery from southern Africa including over 1000 repeat photographs with associated searchable keywords and information. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | enhancement of environmental history research potential in the southern African region |
| Description | !khwa ttu |
| Organisation | !Khwa ttu |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Low is curating a new museum at the !khwa ttu San Cultural and Educational Centre that concerns the history and cultural of San people, who dwelled historically and in prehistory throughout west Namibia. San people and their history (and its representations) thus are important and relevant to the AHRC Future Pasts project. Working with !khwa ttu is introducing Low to new networks which are important to the Future Pasts project, and is supporting the development of new skills in GIS and community outreach which are relevant to our research and impact activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | !khwa ttu is supporting Low's networking and skills development. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes are multi-disciplinary, relating to historical mapping, community development and participatory community processes regarding the development of museum displays that respect and tell San versions of their history and culture. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Arts Association |
| Organisation | Arts Association Heritage Trust (Namibia) |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | environmental history and critical art history research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to Namibian landscape painting and photography archive. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Arts Association Heritage Trust (Namibia) |
| Organisation | Arts Association Heritage Trust (Namibia) |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Environmental history and critical art history research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to Namibian landscape painting and photography archive. |
| Impact | This collaboration will support forthcoming outputs in environmental history and historical ecology. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | British Library Sound Archives: Recording of the song corpus of celebrated Damara composer/performer, Michael Doeseb (Khorixas, West Namibia) |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Department | Scholarship and Collections |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Recorded the complete repertoire of songs by celebrated Damara composer-performer, Michael Doeseb. Michael is the leader of a dance troupe called Abas /Khoab, based in the town of Khorixas in the Kunene Region. The group, which comprises mainly family members, is widely recognised across Namibia as one of the only 'traditional' Damara dance groups, and while sadly able to survive only by performing in hotels or contrived cultural village settings, their musical repertoire, which has been both painstaking collected and added to by Michael over his lifetime, represents a precious historical archive. None of the collection has been formally recorded for research and preservation purposes; only one commercial CD has been made of Michael's songs, though this contains no metadata. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collated and digitised Michael Doeseb's entire songbook, which is now available on the BL Sound Archives online repository, along with lyrics and translations of songs and photographs of the group. |
| Impact | Documented and preserved a Namibian song corpus that serves as an important chronicle of Damara cultural knowledge and history. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | British Library Sound Archives: Recording of the song corpus of celebrated Damara composer/performer, Michael Doeseb (Khorixas, West Namibia) |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Recorded the complete repertoire of songs by celebrated Damara composer-performer, Michael Doeseb. Michael is the leader of a dance troupe called Abas /Khoab, based in the town of Khorixas in the Kunene Region. The group, which comprises mainly family members, is widely recognised across Namibia as one of the only 'traditional' Damara dance groups, and while sadly able to survive only by performing in hotels or contrived cultural village settings, their musical repertoire, which has been both painstaking collected and added to by Michael over his lifetime, represents a precious historical archive. None of the collection has been formally recorded for research and preservation purposes; only one commercial CD has been made of Michael's songs, though this contains no metadata. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collated and digitised Michael Doeseb's entire songbook, which is now available on the BL Sound Archives online repository, along with lyrics and translations of songs and photographs of the group. |
| Impact | Documented and preserved a Namibian song corpus that serves as an important chronicle of Damara cultural knowledge and history. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CCA |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Department | Centre for Curating the Archive |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Outsider photography from rural southern Africa |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration in publishing, exhibiting outsider photography |
| Impact | None since 2013 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Centre for Curating the Archive |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Outsider photography from rural southern Africa. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration in publishing. Exhibitions of outsider photography. |
| Impact | None since 2013, but future outputs planned. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | FogLife |
| Organisation | Gobabeb Training and Research Centre |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Planned collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Planned collaboration |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Gobabeb Namib Research Institute |
| Organisation | Gobabeb Training and Research Centre |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Gobabeb Namib Research Institute is a research organisation located in west Namibia. Members of the Future Pasts project gave a number of presentations at the Centre (by Rohde, Sullivan and Hannis - see 'public engagements'), and Rohde and Impey developed a research project in collaboration with a specific programme of research being developed by Gobabeb and partners (see collaboration entry entitled 'FogLife'). By invitation by Gobabeb's Director, Sullivan also contributed material for an entry on indigenous harvesting practices for !nara (Acanthosicyos horridus) for a 2014 text for policy makers on commercialised plant products in Namibia (see narrative on 'impact'). In recent visits to the Centre (by Sullivan in March 2018 and by Sullivan and Hannis in September 2018) presentations delivered have included 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, continuities, possibilities' (Sullivan with Welhemina Suro Ganuses, Sept. 2018), ''Exploring multispecies interactions through seed gathering from harvester ant nests: contemporary and historical practices by Damara / ?Nukhoen in west Namibia' (Sullivan, Sept. 2018), '"Our hearts were happy here": recollecting acts of dwelling and acts of clearance through mapping on-site oral histories in west Namibia' (Sullivan, March 2018) and 'Mining the Namib coast: nature, capital and history' (Hannis, Sept. 2018). In 2018 Sullivan became an Associate of Gobabeb Namib Research Institute. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Gobabeb contributed a formal endorsement letter for our research early in 2014 to add to our research permit dossier for submission to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Specific support by Gobabeb for the research being developed by Rohde and Impey regarding repeat landscape photographs and sound ecology is detailed under the entry 'FogLife'. Sullivan has been supported to gain Ministry of Environment & Tourism research permits through her involvement as a co-investigator in a research project led from Gobabeb (see below). |
| Impact | Sullivan has become a co-investigator to contribute ethnographic and oral history dimensions to a cross-disciplinary research project led from Gobabeb (Principal Investigator Dr Gillian Maggs-Kolling) called 'The significance of the Namib Desert endemic !nara (Acanthosicyos horridus) as a keystone species in ecology, phenology, culture and horticultural potential'. In 2021 this research formed the basis for an invitation from the Deputy Director of Wildlife Monitoring and Research, Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism - MEFT, to contribute a report on the Cultural Histories of the Northern Namib to support the new Management Plan for the Skeleton Coast National Park, published as: Sullivan, S. 2021 Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib: historical and oral history observations for the Draft Management Plan, Skeleton Coast National Park 2021/2022-2030/2031 Future Pasts Working Paper Series 12 https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp12-sullivan-2021 ISBN: 978-1-911126-17-1 |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Museums Association of Namibia |
| Organisation | Museums Association of Namibia |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | to add |
| Collaborator Contribution | to add |
| Impact | to add |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Plant Conservation Unit |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Social science component of environmental history research in arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Botanical and ecological components of environmental history research in arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa. |
| Impact | Several publications prior to 2013 |
| Description | Save the Rhino Trust (SRT), Namibia |
| Organisation | Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Save the Rhino Trust is an NGO that has been operating since at least the 1990s in the southern Kunene region of our study area. Its trackers and staff members have an immense wealth of knowledge of this area and the organisation currently employs a key field assistant / translator (Welhelmina Suro Ganuses) with whom both Sullivan and Low have worked in the course of conducting ethnographic research since the early 1990s. For Future Pasts Sullivan has formalised an arrangement to second Suro from SRT for assistance with periods of ethnographic field research as part of Future Pasts. This is part of a developing collaboration to draw out elements of cultural landscape relationships that have been obscured by contemporary conservation and tourism concession designations, and that are relevant to the areas that SRT currently works in. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SRT is providing logistical (e.g. possibility of camping at times at SRT base-camp) support as well as releasing one of its staff members to work with Sullivan as a field assistant for Future Pasts research, as well as sharing knowledge regarding Damara cultural landscapes and key informants. |
| Impact | Currently this collaboration primarily relates to field logistics for ethnographic components of our research in southern Kunene Region. This is a key element in making possible academic research outputs from this part of the project. At the same, it is intended that through generating 'outreach' documents and other routes for local uptake of research material, routes towards broader impact of the research will be fostered through this collaboration. SRT staff are also now contributing material to Future Pasts Working Papers, with collaborative papers in development. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Sullivan, S. Steering Group collaboration for 'Utopias, Futures and Temporalities' conference, Bristol, May 2015 |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sian Sullivan was a member of the academic steering group for this event, made up of researchers in the AHRC's Care for the Future and Connected Communities themes, under the leadership of Keri Facer, Leadership Fellow (Connected Communities). She also led a collaborative Roundtable proposal for this event, entitled Temporalities / Communities / Sustainabilities: Frictions and Frissons in the making of Utopian Futures and involving herself and Mike Hannis from the Future Pasts research team, and two researchers from the Hydrocitizenship research project under the AHRC's Connected Communities theme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | to do |
| Impact | to complete. Papers presented by Future Pasts researchers at the Roundtable initiated by Sullivan were entitled 'Conservation utopias and temporalities of sustainability: notes from west Namibia' (Sullivan - working paper to be prepared with this title) and 'Crisis, utopia, and future generations' (Hannis). |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | University of Namibia (UNAM) |
| Organisation | University of Namibia |
| Department | Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies |
| Country | Namibia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We approached UNAM for official endorsement for our research in 2014 and discussed the content of our research with the Head of the Dept. of Geography, History and Environmental Studies, Dr Martha Akawa, who in 2017 visited Bath Spa University as a visiting lecturer for the Association of Commonwealth Universities summer school hosted by the university. In 2018 UNAM became an institutional member of the GALA (Global Academy of Liberal Arts) network, led from Bath Spa University. Dr Selma Lendelvo, Head of the Life Sciences Division of the university's Multi-disciplinary Research Centre, will make a short research visit to Bath Spa University in 2019 at the invitation of the GALA network and Future Pasts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Head of the Dept. of Geography, History and Environmental Studies at UNAM contributed a formal endorsement letter for our research early in 2014 to add to our research permit dossier for submission to the Ministry of Home Affairs. In 2019 Dr Selma Lendelvo, Head of the Life Sciences Division of the university's Multi-disciplinary Research Centre contributed a supporting letter for a Ministry of Environment and Tourism research permit for Sullivan and field research team. |
| Impact | UNAM has becoming part of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) (http://gala.network/), led from Bath Spa University. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | "Listening for a change: Ethno-ornithology, climate change and the soundworlds of the Africa-Eurasian flyways" Music Research Seminar, SOAS University of London, Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivery of research to university-based research forum with some 35-people in attendance. The discussion focused on the potential for ethnomusicology to engage more proactively with the ecological sciences and indigenous communities, and the exigency to seek new methodologies that accommodate more inclusive approaches to climate adaptation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | "Rain later, Good, occasionally poor. Rhetorical listening in the age of climate change" Keynote Speech, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, BathSpa University, April 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 250 scholars and members of the public attended the conference (Theme Music, Culture, Nature), leading to invitations to speak at three international conference in the coming year. It stimulated discussion about academic responsibility to climate action, and in particular, how to strengthen cultural research on climate change to influence policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | "Reading sound and silence as territorial redress in west Namibia" (Paper presented on SOAS School of Arts panel entitled 'Working with music in marginalised communities: questions of voice and vocality' (January 16, 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented on SOAS School of Arts panel entitled "Working with music in marginalised communities: questions of voice and vocality". Event was intended to open discussion about research impacts, with specific view to considering impacts of arts-based research activities in relation to public awareness raising and policy change. Panel attracted staff and students from SOAS and wider London ethnomusicology/anthropology community, and invited lively debate about the politics of self-recognition, research intervention and ethical responsibilities, and knowledge co-production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | "Remote and Intimate Sensing: Ethno-ornithology, climate change and the soundworlds of the Africa-Eurasia flyways" University of Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network online seminar series: 'Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities', Feb 10, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 35 people attended this online session, which stimulated discussion about inter-species ecological intelligences and the importance of indigenous ecological literacies in climate change modelling. The discussion led to increased interest in rethinking practical responsibilities of academic research to the climate crisis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib' - Invited seminar for Research Colloquium at Institut für Ethnologie, Hamburg University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: retrieving disrupted socio-ecological pasts through on-site oral histories' was given as part of Hamburg University's Research Colloquium at Institut für Ethnologie in July 2018. Stimulating discussion followed, as well as ongoing communication with the seminar organiser. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-institut/aktuelles/ethnologisches-kolloquium-plakat-... |
| Description | '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib' - public lecture, Swakopmund Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk called '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: retrieving disrupted socio-ecological pasts through on-site oral histories' was given as a public lecture at the Swakopmund Museum, Namibia, in September 2018. There were around 100 people in the audience, including family members of research participants and representatives of third sector organisations. A lively discussion ensued, plus requests for further information and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://scientificsocietyswakopmund.com/events/event/nara-harvesters-of-the-northern-namib/ |
| Description | '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib' - seminar at Gobabeb, Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A talk on '!Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: retrieving disrupted socio-ecological pasts through on-site oral histories' was given at Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia, reflecting on the ethnographic and oral history component of collaborative research with researchers at the Centre. Stimulated lively discussion focusing on ongoing and future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Crisis, Utopia, and Future Generations' - presentation at AHRC Symposium Bristol May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The panel was well attended and there was lively discussion of issues raised in the paper. Introducing insights from environmental ethics to scholars of 'Utopia' from other disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/events/event/utopias-futures-and-temporalities-critical-... |
| Description | 'Exploring multispecies interactions' - presentation at Gobabeb, Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A seminar presentation on 'Exploring multispecies interactions through seed gathering from harvester ant nests: contemporary and historical practices by Damara / ?Nukhoen in west Namibia', was given in September 2018 at Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia. A lively discussion followed and participants reported changes in perspective and interest in the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/10/16/Crossing-continents-with-Future-Pasts-a-tale-of-t... |
| Description | 'Exploring multispecies interactions' - presentation at the Southern Deserts Conference 5, Karratha, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on 'Exploring multispecies interactions through seed gathering from harvester ant nests: contemporary and historical practices by Damara / ?Nukhoen in west Namibia' was given in teh panel 'Shaping the Desert' at the 5th Southern Deserts Conference, for which Sullivan was also on the organising committee. The presentation explored a specific harvesting practice documented through research in west Namibia and that has parallels in Australian contexts. Lively discussion and sharing of research material followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/10/16/Crossing-continents-with-Future-Pasts-a-tale-of-t... |
| Description | 'Future Pasts? Sustainabilities in West Namibia', Care for the Future 'Debating Time' blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a blog post written for the AHRC's Care for the Future 'Debating Time' blog and assisted discussion especially amongst other Care for the Future grant recipients, as well as helping to strengthen the vision of Future Pasts amongst our team members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/2015/02/future-pasts/ |
| Description | 'Haiseb - Tracking a Namibian folk hero of the KhoeSan' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over recent decades a select group of scholars, notably Sigrid Schmidt, Megan Biesele and Mathias Guenther, have brought attention to the rich and extensive nature of KhoeSan folklore. A key part of their respective studies has involved drawing out how similar themes are worked with across quite different KhoeSan groups and individuals in distinctive yet, nonetheless, similar ways. Knowledge that comes out of the tight binding of landscape to culture and lifestyle, is passed on and reconfigured with every telling of a story. Work with the Future Pasts project has picked up one of the primary themes of this folklore and explored it in conjunction with new media opportunities. The theme of the media rich website linked here is Haiseb. Haiseb is a Trickster like figure found among Nama, Damara and Hai||om, and intimately related to Trickster figures found across KhoeSan peoples. The emphasis of this website is to explore how knowledge of Haiseb relates to landscape, song and movement. The website is a prelude to a more academic discussion of what embodied knowledge actually means, including how memory of Haiseb's movement and sound haunts river beds, mountains and plains. Scholars of KhoeSan folklore all emphasise that the stories are performances. This website indicates what sort of performances underpin current knowledge of Haiseb and begs the question, just how long have these movements and sounds of Haiseb populated southern Africa 'empty' spaces? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://thinkingthreads.com/index.php/haiseb-the-khoesan-trickster/ |
| Description | 'Natural capital accounting' panel organised |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised Double panel on 'Natural capital accounting' co-organised with Rob Fletcher at international conference on The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications, Centre for Space, Place and Society, Wageningen University, June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://centreforspaceplacesociety.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/book-of-abstracts1.pdf |
| Description | 'Nature' or 'Natural Capital'? A question of value(s)', presentation at Bath Spa University Nature and Wellbeing Workshop. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk given on "'Nature' or 'Natural Capital'? A question of value(s)" for interdisciplinary academic and practitioners Nature and Wellbeing Workshop at Bath Spa University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://culturenaturewellbeing.wordpress.com/events/ |
| Description | 'Our hearts were happy here' for panel on 'Cultural maps and hunter-gatherers' being in the world', CHAGS12 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation called '"Our hearts were happy here"': recollecting acts of dwelling and acts of clearance through mapping on-site oral histories in west Namibia' given for a panel on 'Cultural maps and hunter-gatherers' being in the world', at the 12th international Conference on Hunter-Gatherer Societies (CHAGS12) in Penang Malaysia. A lively discussion followed the panel. New research collaborations explored with the panel organiser, Dr Ute Dieckmann (Univ. of Cologne), led to the development of the AHRC-DFG project Etosha-Kunene Histories (AH/T013230/1, 2020-2023), as well as publication of a book chapter in an edited volume - Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. in press, April 2021 Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing, pp. 139-191 in Dieckmann, U. (ed.) Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa. Bielefeld: Transcript. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://chags.usm.my/ |
| Description | 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein' - conference presentation, Windhoek, Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation called 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, continuities, possibilities' was given with Namibian collaborator Welhemina Suro Ganuses, at the international conference on The Past, Present and Future of Namibian Heritage, held at the University of Namibia, Windhoek in August 2018. A lively panel discussion followed and continuing engagement with the Museums Association of Namibia, one of the organisers of the conference, is taking place. The talk is specifically mentioned in the review at the URL below which states that 'The Conference also sought to break barriers by engaging the Namibian art sector with the museum community. Presenters supported the idea of the Museum of Namibian Music as a way of discussing, celebrating and preserving our `intangible' musical heritage. For example, there was a presentation by Ms Welhemina Suro Ganuses and Dr Sian Sullivan about the fading tradition of flute music amongst the community of Sesfontein.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.museums.com.na/124-thinking-about-namibian-heritage |
| Description | 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein' - seminar presentation at Gobabeb, Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation called 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, continuities, possibilities' was given with Namibian collaborator Welhemina Suro Ganuses to researchers, students and staff at the third sector organisation Gobabeb Research and Training Centre in Namibia on 5th September, sparking lovely discussion and reported new interest in the themes explored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/10/16/Crossing-continents-with-Future-Pasts-a-tale-of-t... |
| Description | (Rohde) Paper presentation CEAD conference, November 16, 2016; Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation title: "Outsider photography/insider ethnography - writing ourselves out of the picture?" Paper presented at the 4th international conference Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) 'Ethnographic Imaginings: Place, Space, and Time'; Cape Town 15-18 November 2016. Abstract retrieved from http://cead.org.nz/Site/Ethnography_conference/Programme.aspx This paper describes two experiments in writing ethnography using photography. The so-called ethnographic 'subjects' from rural Namibia and Namaqualand were given cameras and the results were exhibited in national galleries (Namibia and South Africa) and published in two books as photo essays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://cead.org.nz/Site/Ethnography_conference/Programme.aspx |
| Description | A shared history: repatriating, researching and curating San photographs with San communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk given with project colleague Rick Rhode. The subject was a joint endeavour with !Khwa ttu and the Pitt Rivers Museum wherein I took colonial photographs of Bushmen that were in the archives of the Pitt Rivers Museum, back to a group of Bushmen to establish their response and whether the photographs might be valuable to them. Returning photographs to communities is also a key part of the Future Pasts project. The CEAD conference involved many Maori, Australian Aboriginal and other indigenous peoples. The conference provided a place to explore our Future Pasts and !Khwa ttu methodologies. Our wider framing of our session concerned the role outside researchers might have in community outreach work and anthropology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://cead.org.nz/Site/Ethnography_conference/default.aspx |
| Description | AHRC Heritage Priority Area Case Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | AHRC Heritage Priority Area Case Study blog based on Future Pasts project, and shared on social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://heritage-research.org/case-studies/future-pasts-apocalyptic-moment-hybrid-analysis-green-per... |
| Description | AHRC Workshop at the intersection of 'Care for the Future' and 'Translating Cultures' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited presentation for an AHRC Workshop called 'On the (un)translatability of "coming to terms with the past": at the intersection of 'Care for the Future' and 'Translating Cultures''. It enabled practitioners of AHRC research involved with the 'Care for the Future' and 'Translaiting Cultures' research to share research and reflections, encouraging stimulating discussions and sparking following engagements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AVAMP (Rohde) 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This year the Annual Visual Art Museum Programme (AVAMP) 2015, which is a joint collaboration between the NAGN and the Art Association Heritage Trust (AAHT), will have a photography exhibition theme titled : ' Re-presenting photography in Namibia'. The exhibition seeks to give a concise overview of the development of photography in Namibia, and more so regarding the changing view of the lens in the past years. The AVAMP 2015 exhibition aspires to show a selection of historical, documentary and fine art photography, featuring photos from the colonial era through to the dawn of Namibia's Independence, as well as contemporary works of today. Rohde contributed images from a former exhibition of work by non-professional photographers from Okombahe (his fieldwork area 1994-6). This activity is ongoing until August 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.nagn.org.na/event_registration.php?evt_id=47 |
| Description | BBC Radio documentary on the Damara King's Festival (Namibia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Partnered with BBC radio journalist to produce radio programme for BBC Radio 3 on the political and cultural history of a little-known annual Damara festival. This has laid the foundation for further research on the history of Damara cultural landscapes, with the view to creating further film and radio-based programmes for the Namibian public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Blog - Future Pasts scholarship is praised by Damara traditional leader in Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article reporting feedback on Future Pasts research by PI S Sullivan and Namibian collaborator WS Ganuses from Gaob (King) Justus ?Garoëb, recognised paramount traditional leader of Damara / ?Nukhoen in Namibia. Shared through BSU's Newletters and drawn on to support Impact Case Study for REF U0A14 (Geography and Environmental Studies). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/future-pasts-scholarship-is-praised-by-damara-traditional-leader-in... |
| Description | Blog - Perceptions and histories of black rhino in west Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog about the publication by Future Pasts of a new Working Paper entitled "Attitudes and perceptions of local communities towards the reintroduction of black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis) into their historical range in northwest Kunene Region, Namibia", based on a Masters Dissertation from 2004 by Simson !Uri?khob, CEO since 2014 of the Namibian NGO Save the Rhino Trust. The paper is introduced by a Foreword by Sian Sullivan (Future Pasts) and Jeff Muntifering (Science Adviser to Save the Rhino Trust), providing a Namibian history of the critically endangered and 'unique' 'South-western black rhino' to further situate Simson !Uri?khob's MSc research and highlight its importance. A new online map by Sullivan that is introduced in this Foreword and which spatialises historical documentation of encounters with rhino is now being drawn on as baseline data for Namibia's Black Rhino Custodianship Programme, led by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/perceptions-and-histories-of-black-rhino-in-west-namibia |
| Description | Blog about Future Pasts exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog publicising research exhibition at art gallery and highlighting exhibition private view. Shared further via project facebook site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2017/07/20/Future-Pasts-exhibition-hosts-private-view |
| Description | Blog article - 'Celebrating Hildegaart |Nuas of Sesfontein - 90 years still dancing' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article written following request from Namidaman Traditional Authority (Sesfontein) north-west Namibia, to celebrate the 90th year of one of the eldest research participants in Sullivan's research for the Future Pasts project. Representatives of the Namidaman Traditional Authority wrote to express appreciation for the article and its oral history and filmed record of experiences that are little documented, and has requested further research on related concerns. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/celebrating-hildegaart-nuas-of-sesfontein |
| Description | Blog article - 'Future Pasts and a new research project on Etosha-Kunene histories in Namibia' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article to share news about new funded research project that has built on Future Pasts research - see www.etosha-kunene-histories.net |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/future-pasts-and-a-new-research-project-on-etosha-kunene-histories-... |
| Description | Blog article - 'Future Pasts exhibition curated in Namibia' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article detailing the curation of the research exhibition 'Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia' at COSDEF Community Arts Venue, Swakopmund, Namibia (5-15 June 2019). The article reports on the exhibition launch, two large high school visits to the exhibition, and various comments from a broad range of exhibition visitors, as recorded in the exhibition comments book (linked in the article). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/2019/07/04/future-pasts-exhibition-curated-in-namibia |
| Description | Blog article - 'Giving back' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article reporting the return of research media to participants in Namibia who expressed their appreciation for receiving this material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/post/giving-back |
| Description | Blog on Future Pasts website and Facebook (Rohde & Sullivan) Summarising CEAD presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Text and images summarising the presentation at CEAD conference 2016 "Outsider photography/insider ethnography - writing ourselves out of the picture?" https://www.futurepasts.net/blog https://www.facebook.com/futurepastsAHRC/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bonding Nature(s) talk, conference on The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications, Centre for Space, Place and Society, Wageningen University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given as part of the well-attended panel on 'Natural capital accounting' at international conference on The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications, Centre for Space, Place and Society, Wageningen University, July 2017. Sparked very lively discussion and subsequent correspondence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://centreforspaceplacesociety.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/book-of-abstracts1.pdf |
| Description | Climate change complexity blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog to communicate findings from repeat landscape photography research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2017/07/03/Climate-change-complexity-repeat-landscape-photog... |
| Description | Conference Keynote Address |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 75 professional music scholars, anthropologists and ecologists attended this annual South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM). Keynote address entitled "Music and Environmental Futures in Africa: Accelerating Action from the Ground Up." Paper promoted new ideas about applied 'eco-musicology' and indigenous knowledge of weather, which sparked questions about the specific contributions that can be made by African scholars to climate adaptation. Two PhDs projects by African students have since been designed to address aspects of this issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Contribution of repeat landscape images for the National Conference on Bush Encroachment and Value Addition in Namibia (Rohde). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To be completed. . . . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/28648.html |
| Description | Crossing continents with Future Pasts - research blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research blog summarising project work presented by Future Pasts researchers Sian Sullivan and Mike Hannis and collaborators at a series of three international conferences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/10/16/Crossing-continents-with-Future-Pasts-a-tale-of-t... |
| Description | Cultural Ecologies lecture, ACU Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture entitled 'Cultural Ecologies', drawing on Future Pasts research, delivered to international students on Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School held at Bath Spa University. Sparked animated discussion and further interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.acu.ac.uk/events/commonwealth-summer-school/commonwealth-summer-school-2017/ |
| Description | Curating the exhibition talk, BSU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk and participation building on experience of curating Future Pasts research exhibition at Gallery 44AD in Bath, fostering collaboration and awareness regarding creative practice and exhibition possibilities in Bath. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bathspalive.com/researcherdevelopment/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle... |
| Description | Densities of meaning - Cologne |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled 'Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing' given at Research Workshop on "Mapping the Unmappable", at University of Cologne, Germany (December 2019), leading to publication of a book chapter: Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. in press, April 2021 Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing, pp. 139-191 in Dieckmann, U. (ed.) Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa. Bielefeld: Transcript. I also participated in the chapter peer review process for the volume in which this appears, providing detailed reviews for three other chapters appearing in the volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://transition.uni-koeln.de/past-events/past-events/events-sorted-by-year/past-events-2019/mappi... |
| Description | Entitle blog, Feb2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Publication of an article in the blog series of 'ENTITLE' - a European network of research and training on political ecology that brings together scholars and fellows from a variety of institutions and disciplinary and geographical backgrounds. The intention of the blog was to raise awareness about current uses of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies for sourcing finance for environmental conservation initiatives, including in the global south. The blog was reblogged a number of times from the Entitle website as well as shared 111 times to Facebook from this site, as well as to Twitter. It was also discussed in a later article at http://www.redd-monitor.org/2018/02/08/the-kariba-redd-project-in-zimbabwe-from-carbon-credits-to-earth-tokens/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://entitleblog.org/2018/02/01/nature-3-0-will-blockchain-technology-and-cryptocurrencies-save-t... |
| Description | Environmental Humanities Public Lecture at Bath Spa University, December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture in a series organised by the BSU Research Centre in Environmental Humanities, presenting findings on ethical issues associated with trophy hunting of black rhinoceros in Namibia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Environmental rights futures: Climate prediction, bird phenology and the soundworlds of the KhoeSan of Namibia. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (virtual conference organised by University of Ottawa, October 2020). Sparked discussion about the role of music and sound studies in deepening our understanding of locally-held knowledge about weather and climate change. Interest also in exploring new pathways to impact, particularly as it applies to climate adaptation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Conf_2020 |
| Description | Extraction old and new - research blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research blog written to communicate issues in historical and present-day extractive industry in south-western Africa (South Africa and Namibia) in connection with conservation policies and initiatives focusing on biodiversity offsetting and restoration. Shared on social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2018/03/04/Extraction-Old-and-New |
| Description | Extraction old and new blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Beyond-academia communication of research drawing on information mapped at https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en|=1yeJbGvTlmsXVR6ifnwxpTbe1AlE«=-28.495947201036447%2C17.60009765625&z=5 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2017/11/17/Extraction-Old-and-New |
| Description | Film and the politics of self-recognition in west Namibia (Open Africa Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 70 post-graduate students and members of the public attended this public talk, which formed part of a series of talks on public archiving. The presentation added a new dimension to the work of the Hidden Years Archive (Open Africa Institute) by motivating for public awareness raising through immersive watching and feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://aoinstitute.ac.za/hidden-years/record-memory-archive-international-workshop-concert-and-publ... |
| Description | Filmed presentation on 'Exploring Re-embodiments' for the Symposium Bodily Undoing: Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Video presentation for the Symposium "Bodily Undoing: Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique" at Bath Spa University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/233887180 |
| Description | Foglife 2nd colloguium (Rohde) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion around alternative monitoring technologies. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.gobabebtrc.org/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/293-2nd-annual-foglife-c... |
| Description | Future Pasts blog post - Notes on 'natural capital' and 'fairy-tales' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Future Pasts blog posts engaging with debates and policy on framing nature as 'natural capital' in combination with perspectives from ethnographic field research on sustainability perceptions and practices in west Namibia. The post was tweeted multiple times and stimulated discussion in the 'twittersphere'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2015/11/19/notes-on-natural-capital-and-fairy-tales-Sullivan... |
| Description | Future Pasts blog post - Why are pastoralists poisoning lions in west Namibia? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post based on field research observations and extending with more research detail a shorter article posted previously on The Conversation UK (https://theconversation.com/three-of-namibias-most-famous-lion-family-were-poisoned-why-64322). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2017/02/16/Why-are-pastoralists-poisoning-lions-in-west-Nami... |
| Description | Future Pasts ethnomusicologist works with BBC journalist to create radio programme on Damara King's festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | First ever documentation of the Damara King's festival, which has brought attention to this important event, and in particular to its articulation of Damara history and cultural memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/blog |
| Description | Future Pasts facebook site |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is a facebook site established so as to support the beyond-academia sharing of outputs from Future Pasts. The site was established in Feb 2017 and currently has more than 150 'followers' with comments and requests for clarification being shared on posts and via private messages. We expect and intend the site to contribute to broader discussion and interest regarding Future Pasts research activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/futurepastsAHRC/ |
| Description | Future Pasts instagram account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In 2017 an instagram account for the Future Pasts project was created, initially to report on a research journey by Sian Sullivan and Mike Hannis to visit and document key sites of colonial encounter as welll as extractive industry from Cape Town to Kunene Region. The account has international reach and has stimulated engagement from diverse users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/futurepastsahrc/ |
| Description | Future Pasts twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the twitter account for Future Pasts which was established in 2014 but which is only now starting to be used at all significantly for sharing research outputs and activities. Posts tend to be reshared although not currently able to state exactly what the broader reach of these is. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Future_Pasts |
| Description | Future Pasts vimeo site |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is a vimeo site created for Future Pasts where we can share short videos made from our research material. It is a public site online. We will continue to add videos here that can be linked to in our website, facebook page and publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/futurepasts |
| Description | Future Pasts website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | www.futurepasts.net is our project website, established during 2014. Through this website we share outputs and content from our research, including through a bespoke Future Pasts Working Papers series at https://www.futurepasts.net/future-pasts-working-papers and a project blog at https://www.futurepasts.net/blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.futurepasts.net |
| Description | Gogglebox and beyond: Ethnographic film and the politics of self-recognition in west central Namibia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 60 people attended the seminar, which provoked much conversation about applied research methodologies, and in particular, in the use of film as documentation as well as public work. Attitudes toward new academic responsibilities for public outreach appeared to be changed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/research-colloquium-dr-moritz-kelber-2019-10-29/ |
| Description | Googlemap locating historical encounters in southwestern Africa relevant as background research for Future Pasts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the first of a series of googlemaps being created to support Future Pasts research. The map is international in reach and editable on an ongoing basis. It is starting to be included as a reference source in Future Pasts blogs and publications. The map has only recently been made publicly viewable so it is too early to report significant impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1yeJbGvTlmsXVR6ifnwxpTbe1AlE&ll=-28.493828820188824... |
| Description | Historical timeline of references |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This 'Historical Sequence of References to Peoples and Places of West Namibia' has been created as a living online document of sources and perspectives that can be referred to in other Future Pasts publications and ressources. It consists of a series of embedded documents comprised of a collation of sources and observations for different time-periods from pre-history to the present. These documents are being updated on an ongoing basis by the Future Pasts PI, as new sources are read and integrat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/historical-time-line-west-namibia |
| Description | Hunting Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sullivan, S. 2022 'Hunting Africa': trophy hunting, neocolonialism and land. The Land Magazine 31: 22-27, 58, https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/hunting-africa-trophy-hunting-neocolonialism-and-land Discussed/referenced in online media: Media: Kukura, J. 2022 The greatest misconception about trophy hunting in Namibia. Wild Things Initiative 26 August 2022; https://wildthingsinitiative.substack.com/p/the-greatest-misconception-about; Kukura, J. 2022 George Monbiot's defence of trophy hunting makes no sense. Wild Things Initiative 29 August 2022 https://wildthingsinitiative.substack.com/p/george-monbiots-defense-of-trophy; Keeling, T. 2022 The future for Namibia's desert lions looks extremely bleak. 18 September 2022 https://www.thecanary.co/feature/2022/09/18/the-future-for-namibias-desert-lions-looks-extremely-bleak/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/hunting-africa-trophy-hunting-neocolonialism-and-land |
| Description | INTERSECTIONS Graduate workshop: Nature-society encounters: discussions with an environmental anthropologist and an environmental ethicist on conservation, capital and flourishing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Focused cross-disciplinary postgraduate workshop invited and hosted by The Dept. Geography and the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto. Sparked discussion and exchange of contact details for further engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://geography.utoronto.ca/event/intersections-graduate-workshop-nature-society-encounters-discuss... |
| Description | Interview for BBC World Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The interview has been recorded for a BBC series, 'Living with Nature'. The interview concerned the role of natural sounds in the lives of desert dwellers in Namibia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited class presentation (Low), University of Vermont |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Low was invited by university lecturer Mike Kessler to speak to students about life amongst contemporary KhoeSan. This is a collaboration that is leading to the development of course content regarding tracking in a range of educational settings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Invited colloguium poster (Rohde & Impey) Foglife, Gobabeb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This meeting helped set up plans for a three year project and provided specific feedback on the proposal of myself and Angela Impey. Received several feedback correspondence and increased collaborative associations with other environmental scientists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.sasscal.org/foglife_col_nov2014_sasscal.php |
| Description | Invited expert speaker (Sullivan) for Royal Society Public Dialogue on Ecosystem Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was the last in a series of dialogue events around the country designed to engage public participants with concepts and concerns constituting the basis of the UK's National Ecosystem Assessment. Sullivan's talk was intended as a stimulus presentation to introduce participants to a range of concerns regarding market-based approaches to environmental management. The presentation informed discussion and shaped participants views, as reflected in verbal feedback and in the nature of the following small group discussions and debates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/9D267ED0-F45E-49BE-899A-1748BAB030B6 |
| Description | Invited presentation (Rohde) Association of Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This discussion stimulated thinking around concepts of landscape imagery, the issue of distance and ideology inherent in Paul van Schalkwy's aerial landscape photographs. This activity provided a forum wherein practitioners from different disciplines were able to meet and create productive working relationships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ava.co.za/a-pristine-land-interrupted-gallery-conversation/ |
| Description | Invited presentation (Rohde) Environmental History of the Namib |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Feedback from local experts and stimulation of discussion with national and international interns and students Correspondence with local experts carried forward in collaborative research activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Invited presentation (Rohde): Environmental history research methods using repeat photography |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Discussions leading to further research collaboration. Raised awaremness of importance of environmental history in understanding change in relation to climate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Invited seminar presentation (Sullivan), Goethe Institute, Frankfurt. Talk entitled 'The natural capital myth' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Around 100 postgraduate students and staff from the Goethe Institute attended the talk which generated discussion that continued in some cases by email after the event. The seminar was filmed and posted online. Through this I was subsequently invited to give a plenary address at a workshop on 'Ecological accounts' at St. Andrews (in August 2014). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://electure-ms.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/vod/playlists/scwuxOH7cC.html |
| Description | Invited seminar presentation (Sullivan), Human Ecologies series, Univ. Canterbury |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussion arising from aspects of Future Pasts research which stimulated questions and discussions, especially with Anthropology and Conservation postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/events/lectures-seminars/Human_Ecology_Seminar_Series/Human_Ecology_Semin... |
| Description | Invited talk (Sullivan) for Geography research seminar on 'marketisation and nature', Durham University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This was an afternoon's research seminar with three papers. The audience were postgraduate students and staff members at Durham, who in 2013-14 had adopted 'marketisation' as a theme for cross-research cluster collaboration in human geography. The seminar stimulated detailed discussion regarding issues of marketisation in relation to the natural environment. The seminar stimulated ongoing email discussion and exchange of work, plus further invitations for presentation of work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/news/futureevents/?eventno=18270 |
| Description | Joint presentation with M. Hannis on 'Ontology after truth? Ethnography and ethics in an unraveling world' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Future Pasts research as part of a panel on 'Onto-epistemologies and ethics' at the inaugural symposium of Bath Spa University's Research Centre in Environmental Humanities, entitled Environmental Humanities: Doing Interdisciplinarity with Depth. A very lively panel that sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lunch Talk (Sullivan): "'Future Pasts.' Introducing a historical cultural mapping project in western Namibia", BAB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited research seminar given with Namibian collaborator Welhemina Suro Ganuses at the Namibia Resource Centre of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel, Switzerland. Sparked questions and discussions and led to further collaborative possibilities as well as to invitations to give a research seminar in Hamburg (in July 2018) and submit a paper to a panel on Cultural Mapping at the next Conference on Hunter-Gatherer Societies (also in July 2018). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://baslerafrika.ch/event/lunch-talk-future-pasts-introducing-a-historical-cultural-mapping-proj... |
| Description | Mining the Desert, The Land |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Recently published magazine article drawing on research mapped at https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-28.2476162,6.8429773,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!6m1!1s1yeJbGvTlmsXVR6ifnwxpTbe1AlE intended to communicate issues to beyond-academia audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/mining-desert |
| Description | Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound responses to Environmental Breakdown (Keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 75 people attended the virtual meeting, which was organised by the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) in partnership with Universities of Oxford and Glasgow. Sparked discussion about the role of creative (sound/musical) engagement in raising awareness of climate change. It was particularly stimulating to young scholars who are seeking to engage in relevant research related to environmental matters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.the-imr.uk/music-studies-on-a-damaged-planet-sound-responses-to-environmental-breakdown |
| Description | Online radio interview on dance and healing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited online radio interview concerning dance and healing, drawing on ethnographic field research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/artfulbadgeruk/badger-radio-totum-dance-meditation-special-featuring-christ... |
| Description | Online radio show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited interview for radio show communicating contemporary relevance of 'rites of passage' and drawing on ethnographic field research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/artfulbadgeruk/badger-radio-totem-rites-of-passage-feat-way-of-nature-uk-si... |
| Description | Our hearts were happy here, blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research blog post intended to communicate to a broad audience some findings from cultural landscape mapping research being conducted through Future Pasts. The blog has been discussed with Namibian research participants in the project and shared broadly with students and other academic researchers, leading in part to an invitation to contribute to a conference panel on cultural mapping at the Conference on Hunter Gather Societies in 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.futurepasts.net/single-post/2017/03/19/%E2%80%98Our-hearts-were-happy-here%E2%80%99-%E2%... |
| Description | Paper given (Sullivan) at 'Landscape, wilderness and the wild' conference, Newcastle, March 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The paper given was entitled 'Wild game or soul mates? On humanist naturalism and animist socialism in composing socionatural abundance'. It stimulated interesting discussion afterwards, and has been followed by email correspondence with other conference participants. The paper has been uploaded to my page at academia.edu and is being bookmarked. n/a to date (the paper was only delivered last week) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/news/events/thewild/ |
| Description | Photographic exhibition - Otterbein University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition of photographs by Sophie Klaase, curated by R Rohde and S O'Connell hosted by Otterbein University, Department of Art, entitled 'Extra Ordinary Lives: Portraits from a divided land'. displayed in the Fisher Gallery, Roush Hall (first and second floors), 27 South Grove Street, Westerville, OH 43081. The exhibition runs from between August 21 to December 3, 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.otterbein.edu/public/About/Calendars/ArtScene/OpeningDoors.aspx |
| Description | Political Ecology Seminar, University of Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited postgraduate seminar given to the newly formed 'Political ecology, pasts and presents: from science, myth and power to post-truth?', Political Ecology Seminar Series at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, 23 October. Lively discussion afterwards and continued communication with series conveners and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/JamesR_Palmer/status/1054759621146148864 |
| Description | Premiered film, The Damara Kings Festival at SOAS, University of London (Angela Impey) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The premier of the film at SOAS, University of London was attended by the Namibian High Commissioner to London and a 10-member high-profile delegation from the Namibian High Commission. Senior academics of Namibian cultural and environmental history from the British Library were also in attendance, as were members of the UK Friends of Namibia Society, the media and members of the public. The film screening generated animated discussion about Damara cultural identity, and provided valuable direction to ways in which the film may be used within Namibia to encourage public debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation (Hannis, Sullivan) given at ISEE. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vibrant discussion during and following the panel of which this paper was part. Correspondence with other academics participating in the event. Paper developed into a book chapter for an Oxford University Press edited collection entitled 'Flourishing: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics' (under contract). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.isee2015.uni-kiel.de/iseeinhalt/Conference-General.php |
| Description | Presentation (Sullivan) Royal Geographical Society, Exeter. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations sparked an animated discussion which included academics and third sector practitioners and policymakers. Invitations to give seminars at Wageningen and Leeds University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Programme/Programm... |
| Description | Presentation (Sullivan) at 2nd AHRC-LABEX Research Workshop 'Delving Back into the Past..', Royal Society, London, April |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion and stimulated further engagement with participants at the meeting, including a successful funding application under the AHRC/LABEX joint 2015 call for collaborative research projects. Was invited to act as 'key listener' in the final workshop panel. Pursued discussion with other researchers at the workshop (from Hull University and French LABEX-PasP institutions), leading to submission of grant application to AHRC-LABEX joint funding scheme (http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/funding/) - outcome as yet unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/events/labex-collaboration/ |
| Description | Presentation (Sullivan) at AHRC Symposium, Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion and questions sparked by the presentation and the Roundtable this was part of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/events/event/utopias-futures-and-temporalities-critical-... |
| Description | Presentation (Sullivan) given at AHRC-LABEX workshop 'Exploring the past to understand the present...', Paris, January 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk encouraged discussion and has led to future conversation and engagement with participants, as well as reflection on and development of the material presented. A new research project developed from these encounters and subsequent discussions (AH/N504579/1). I was successful in my application to participate in the second Franco-British research workshop held in London a few months later and have maintained contact with researchers I met at this first AHRC-LABEX research workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://careforthefuture.exeter.ac.uk/events/labex-collaboration/ |
| Description | Presentation (Sullivan) given at CHAGS, Vienna. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk stimulated discussion at the panel and led to subsequent meetings and correspondence. None known as yet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://chags.univie.ac.at/ |
| Description | Presentation at 'The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications' conference, Wageningen, Netherlands, June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled: 'Hunting Natural Capital? Economics, Ethics and the Reinvention of the Black Rhinoceros.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://centreforspaceplacesociety.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/book-of-abstracts1.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene Symposium, Bath Spa University, April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled '"Uranium burns a hole in forever": temporalities, ethics and the nuclear fuel cycle.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/liberal-arts/research/media-convergence-research-centre/previous-symposium... |
| Description | Presentation at Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia, 5 September 2018. Title: "Mining the Namib Coast: Phosphates, Capital and History." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Future Pasts research by M Hannis and S Sullivan, examining and historicising proposals for marine phosphate mining off the Namibian coast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at International Society for Environmental Ethics, New York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented on ethical issues associated with trophy hunting of black rhinoceros in Namibia. Well-received, lively discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at conference of peer-reviewed paper: Rohde RF, Hoffman MT, Durbach I, Venter Z and Jack S 2019. Historical vegetation and climate change in the Namib Desert. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the Arid Zone Ecology Forum, Kimberley, South Africa, 7-10 October 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by M Hannis at international conference 'Southern Deserts 5', Karratha, Western Australia, 9 August 2018. Title: "Mining the Namib: Nature, Capital and History on a Desert Coast." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Future Pasts research by M Hannis and S Sullivan, examining and historicising extractive industry practices in coastal Namibia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/SouthernDeserts2018/ |
| Description | Presentation by Sullivan and Hannis at 'Capitalizing nature. Forms and strategies for economizing the environment, 19th to 21st century' conference, Paris June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Sullivan and Hannis entitled ''Mathematics maybe, but not money': on balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://koyre.ehess.fr/index.php?2420 |
| Description | Presentation by Sullivan and Hannis at Inaugural Symposium of Bath Spa University Research Centre for Environmental Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sullivan and Hannis Presented reflections on interdisciplinary working in the Environmental Humanities, drawing on experience of Future Pasts collaboration between an anthropologist and a philosopher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/research-centre-for-environmental... |
| Description | Presentation made by Sullivan and Hannis at Namibian research and training centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around twenty students, researchers and local employees attended this event on 9th March 2014, which was a series of talks by members of the Future Pasts team delivered at Gobabeb Research and Training Centre in Namibia. Sullivan and Hannis delivered a talk entitled 'Offsetting nature? Notes on the development of biodiversity offsetting policy in the UK and beyond...'. The talk stimulated a dynamic discussion regarding these policies and assisted in the Future Pasts programme of research being formally endorsed by this organisation. One Research Technician from the organisation described it as 'an amazing presentation'. Co-Investigator Rick Rohde also delivered a talk on 'Repeat photographs and environmental history'. Members of Gobabeb Research and Training reported a stimulated interest in biodiversity offsetting policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation on project given at Bath Spa University Research Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given called 'Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia. A research exhibition in Bath and Swakopmund' for a panel on Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability: Public Engagement & Participatory Action, at the Research Festival held at Bath Spa University, July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://bsuenvhums.blog/2019/06/21/bath-spa-university-research-festival-wednesday-17th-july-bsu-ehrc... |
| Description | Presented paper at FILMING AFRICAN MUSIC: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY DAY ON AFRICAN MUSIC AND FILM / VIDEO, Bath Spa University, 18 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a paper entitled 'Filming the Damara King's Festival as cultural documentation and political redress', followed by a screening of the film. Approximately 60-people were in attendance, which stimulated discussion about the value of film as a research tool, amongst a range of other issues. This has stimulated the organisation of a film tour to select Damara communities in Namibia (August 2018), the aim of which will be to stimulate public reflection about past identities, knowledge and senses of place, and the articulation of these aspects within contemporary Namibian society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presidential panel on Activism, advocacy and community engagement in Ethnomusicology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented the opening paper on the Presidential Panel at the International Society for Ethnomusicology (Washington DC, 2016) on new perspectives on community engagement in Ethnomusicology. The panel was video-streamed and available to ethnomusicologists and interested cultural practitioners worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Lecture hosted by Bath Spa Research Centre for Environmental Humanities, 13 December 2017. Title: Killing Nature to Save It? Economics, Ethics and the Trophy Hunting of Black Rhinoceros. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public Lecture hosted by Bath Spa Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. Title: "Killing Nature to Save It? Economics, Ethics and the Trophy Hunting of Black Rhinoceros". Presentation of Future pasts research by M Hannis, exploring ethical issues arising from trophy hunting in Namibia. A well-attended talk to a mixture of academics and members of the general public, generating lively discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/environmental-humanities/events/ |
| Description | Public Lecture hosted by Bath Spa Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. Title: Mining the Skeleton Coast: Nature, Capital and History. 14 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public Lecture hosted by Bath Spa Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. Title: Mining the Skeleton Coast: Nature, Capital and History. Presentation of Future pasts research by M Hannis and S Sullivan, exploring continuities and discontinuities between past and present extractive industries in coastal Namibia. A well-attended talk to a mixture of academics and members of the general public, generating lively discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/environmental-humanities/events/ |
| Description | Public Online Film Screening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University launched The Music Returns to Kai-as - a film by the Future Pasts project, funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. In May 2019, the Future Pasts project, with local organisations in north-west Namibia (the Sesfontein Conservancy, the Namidaman Traditional Authority, and Save the Rhino Trust Namibia), supported the Hoanib Cultural Group from Sesfontein to return to Kai-as - a place where people once lived. Kai-as is mentioned as an important place in peoples' pasts in oral history research with elderly people now living on the edge of a major tourism concession. Kai-as and its strong spring of sweet water feature in peoples' memory as where they would meet when rain season foods became available in this arid landscape. These congregations are remembered as times when people would play their |gais praise songs and arus healing dances. 'Our hearts were happy there', they said. In the decades since, access has been restricted to places important in peoples' pasts as land areas were claimed for mining, commercial farming, conservation and tourism. Our film The Music Returns to Kai-as documents the first 'Kai-as Festival' held from 22-24 May 2019, in which Sesfontein's Hoanib Cultural Group returned to play - once again - their |gais songs and arus healing dances there. It celebrates peoples' resilience in the face of the extreme marginalisation and exclusion effected by processes of colonisation and apartheid. The film, which is around 50 minutes long, will be introduced by Future Pasts Principal Investigator Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa. The screening will be followed by a Q+A with Sian and Namibia specialist film-maker Oliver Halsey, who did all the filming for The Music Returns to Kai-as. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/future-pasts-screening/ |
| Description | Public Research Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented seminar at SOAS Music Public Seminar series entitled "Ethno-ornithology, climate change, and the soundworlds of the Africa-Eurasia flyways". 45 staff and students attended the seminar to hear new work on acoustic phenology and climate change, and to discuss new trajectories for applied eco-musicology. This stimulated animated discussion and has encouraged several MA students to explore similar themes for dissertation research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RAI Conference presentation (Rohde) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This international conference "Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change" took place at the British Museum 27-29 May 2016. My presentation (entitled 'The fog of historical ecology: vegetation change, sea-surface temperatures and climate change in the Namib desert') was attended by over 50 people, mostly researchers, academics and policy makers. This has led to further collaboration with other panel members and a publication on the panel theme is in the making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Radical Anthropology Group talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to the RDICAL Anthropology Group. About 40 people from a variety of backgrounds attended. The talk is part of my ongoing co-operation with scholars associated with the Radical Anthropology Group. I have also been in contact with audience members wishing to know more about my work and interested in finding out more about the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://radicalanthropologygroup.org |
| Description | Research seminar (Sullivan), !Nara harvesters of the northern Namib |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a research seminar presenting field data from Future Pasts to a cross-disciplinary academic audience that included anthropologists and archaeologists and that attracted a number of post-graduate students. The seminar stimulated discussion and questions, with a positive comments reported after the event. It resulted in the presenter being invited to serve as an examiner on a PhD committee in the department for new ethnographic research in Namibia (although unable to accept due to dates clash). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Rohde, R. Invited presentation of Future Pasts research project to CAS, University of Edinburgh, October 2, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation resulted in collaboration with researchers from CAS who are now working on similar projects in South Africa. Several colleagues requested more information on my methodology of using photography as an ethnographic research tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/research/grants_and_projects/current/future_pasts |
| Description | Scolma conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given to the conference 'Document to Digital: how does digitisation aid African research?' National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh September 11, 2017. The title of the presentation: 'Repeat Landscape Photography, Historical Ecology and the Wonder of Digital Archives' to an audience of approximately 40 people from international backgrounds. Questions and contacts during the conference have led to further engagement activities including the publication of a paper in the journal 'African Research and Documentation'. A summary of the proceedings was published in the Plant conservation Unit of the University of Cape Town's online site: http://www.pcu.uct.ac.za/news/rick-rohde-attends-scolma-conference-scotland-11-september-2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://scolma.org/event/scolma-annual-conference-2017-document-to-digital-how-does-digitisation-aid-... |
| Description | Showing of Damara Kings Festival, Kings Council Windhoek |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 35 members of the Damara Kings Council, the Namibian Media and interested public attended a showing of the film. The Damara King's Festival, which was followed by a new Q+A with the film maker, Andrew Botelle, myself and members of the Council. Discussion included the importance of festival in preserving indigenous knowledge, and sharing aspects of Damara cultural history. Particular interest was shown by members of the Namibian Broadcasting corporation in sharing the film more broadly to raise awareness about Damara history, and resulted in the broadcasting of the film on National television. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sullivan, S., Invited seminar for the Human Ecology Research Group, Dept. Anthropology, University College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Unknown as yet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/research/research_reading_groups/herg |
| Description | The Conversation UK 'Nature is being reframed as 'Natural Capital' - but is it really the planet that will profit? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reach and contribution to broader discussion indicated by 14,480 readers / republications of this article reported on The Conversation plus 249 tweets, 260 shares on facebook and 49 shares on LinkedIn. Themes in the article also discussd by readers through article comments thread. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/nature-is-being-renamed-natural-capital-but-is-it-really-the-planet-that... |
| Description | The Conversation UK 'Three of Namibia's most famous lions were poisoned - why? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article published on The Conversation UK. Reach = 61,104 reads and republications logged, plus 87 tweets and 177 shares on facebook. Discussion also sparked through comments thread on the article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/three-of-namibias-most-famous-lion-family-were-poisoned-why-64322 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network online seminar series: Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 70 academic staff and graduate students attended my online presentation on traditional phenological knowledge (TPK). Almost no research has been conducted on this issue and the talk sparked many questions and animated discussion about the importance for closer research partnerships between bio-sciences and arts. This is producing new research and publications, with implications for expanded discourses and practices in biomimicry and Nature-based solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Working paper media report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media report in The Namibian newspaper drawing attention to issues raised in Working Paper published by the Future Pasts Working Papers series: ?Garoes, T.M. 2021. A forgotten case of the ?Nukhoen / Damara people added to colonial German genocidal crimes in Namibia: we cannot fight the lightning during the rain. (ed. by Sullivan, S.) Future Pasts Working Paper Series 11 https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp11-garoes-2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.namibian.com.na/108986/read/Germany-must-show-more-remorse-for-genocide |
| Description | Workshop at University of Toronto, 8th March 2018. "Nature-society encounters: discussions with an environmental anthropologist and an environmental ethicist on conservation, capital and flourishing." |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited workshop co-facilitated with Prof. Sian Sullivan at University of Toronto, Canada, reflecting on our collaborative interdisciplinary research practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://geography.utoronto.ca/event/intersections-graduate-workshop-nature-society-encounters-discuss... |