Thesis by Filipa F Soares
DPhil (PhD) thesis, Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2020
In recent years, there has been a rethinking of the role of disturbance regimes in nature conserv... more In recent years, there has been a rethinking of the role of disturbance regimes in nature conservation: from exceptional and destructive events to be controlled and/or avoided, to key ecological processes to be nurtured and choreographed. These regimes concern the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological disturbances, understood here as events that disrupt the structure of an ecology, community or population, causing profound changes in an ecosystem. The rethinking of their role precedes but resonates with current enthusiasms for proactive and experimental modes of conservation, such as rewilding.
This thesis draws on three case studies (the New Forest, Knepp Castle Estate and Dundreggan Estate) to explore the ontological, epistemic and socio-political implications of rewilding for the governance of forest disturbance regimes in the UK, particularly through the use of large herbivores. Drawing upon relational understandings of nature, space and time, it develops an understanding of disturbance regimes as process and practice. It first examines how rewilding departs from orthodox biopolitical modes of governing life and the ontological politics at the interface between these various modes. To this end, it attends to the ways in which disturbances have been historically understood and how these understandings have come to shape their governance. Second, it explores the knowledge practices through which ecologists and forest managers know and enact disturbances, comparing a traditional ‘prescriptive’ approach with rewilding. It argues that in practice rewilding is multiple, in contrast to rewilding discourse. Finally, it maps the different and sometimes conflicting social, economic and cultural values associated with working with natural processes, exploring the political ecologies of governing disturbance regimes. It argues that controversies around forest management pertain to a large extent to contrasting perceptions of different types of ‘work’ within the idea of working landscape and how they are ‘naturalised’.
In the conclusion, the thesis explores three empirical and conceptual contributions of these findings for those seeking to understand the logics of rewilding and the processes, practices and dynamics by which nonhuman forms and processes are governed in a post-Natural and uncertain future. First, by deploying a relational approach to the governance of disturbance regimes and by focusing on a long-term disturbance, I draw out the relevance of temporality for thinking through and with disturbances as social and ecological processes. Second, by drawing attention to the intertwining of bio- and socio-political regimes, I propose a reframing of (European) rewilded landscapes as working landscapes. Finally, by attending to the intricacies of practice, I argue that rewilding praxis is multiple and hybrid. It often involves compromises and is shaped by past governance histories and the broader political and social context.
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Papers by Filipa F Soares
Análise Social, liv (4.º), 2019 (n.º 233), pp. 865-875, 2019
An interview with Uwe Lübken,
by Ana Isabel Queiroz, Inês Gomes, and Filipa Soares
Uwe Lübken is ... more An interview with Uwe Lübken,
by Ana Isabel Queiroz, Inês Gomes, and Filipa Soares
Uwe Lübken is professor of American History at the Ludwig-
-Maximilians-University, in Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, dc. He has published several monographs, edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) Transnational History and the “History of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes”. His current work explores the intersections of mobilities and the environment.
In May 2019 Uwe Lübken was in Lisbon for a cycle of workshops and conferences about the “History of Poverty and Hunger”, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History (ihc, nova, fcsh).1 This conversation took place one day after he delivered his talk. We first met him downtown and walked in the direction of the river Tejo. While we walked and visited some landmarks related to disasters (e. g., Igreja de São Domingos, Chiado, Convento do Carmo’s ruins), we evoked the great earthquake of 1755 and talked about flammable cities, disaster memory, and city-river relationships in historical perspective. We finished our trip on the south bank of the river, in Cacilhas (Almada), where we conducted this interview, having Lisbon in the background
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2013
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Environment and History ©The White Horse Press, 2016
Birds are emblematic natural elements of landscapes. Readily noticeable and app... more Birds are emblematic natural elements of landscapes. Readily noticeable and appreciated due to their songs and flight, they have been thoroughly used as components of literary scenarios. This paper analyses their representations in an enlarged corpus (144 writings by 67 writers) since the nineteenth century, divided in three time -
periods. It aims to understand which wild birds are represented in Portuguese literature, how those representations prevail over time, and what literary texts reveal about distribution and abundance of the birds mentioned, linked to major environmental and landscape changes.
Based on common names, 112 taxonomic units are identified, corresponding to either one species, species of the same genera or family, or a higher taxon. In addition,
historical distribution and abundance are extracted from literary texts and compared with data from biological sources, such as ornithological reports, guides, atlas and red data books. We conclude that bird representations are frequent and diversified in terms of taxonomic units, and this richness tends to prevail over time.
The most prolific wild birds’representations are linked to the writers’own experiences of the Portuguese countryside
during their childhood and youth. It is particularly significant in the writers from the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, with a rural origin, like most of the population. Despite landscape and social changes the
rough time, contemporary literature still reveals a sound knowledge of birds and a proximity and appreciation of
nature, which can be explained by the rural ancestry
of some current writers, as a kind of countryside nostalgia and embodiment of an environmental discourse of wildlife
preservation.
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This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological f... more This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological framework to analyze perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices. From a literary corpus compilation, 262 excerpts from 68 works that made reference to wolves were classified by grid analysis into 12 categories, encompassing the diversity of meanings attributed to these animals. Among wild carnivores, the wolf appears most frequently in the literary corpus analyzed. Most references concern conflict and economic losses caused by wolves’ attacks, relating to a utilitarian view of the wild prevalent in rural communities. Nonetheless numerous excerpts reveal closeness with humans and the existence of an ecological knowledge. Writings from the early twentieth century express admiration for wolves and acknowledge their right to exist. Some focus on practices like organized hunts, bounties, or domestication attempts. The negative views depict the wolf as a scapegoat for the shortcomings of rural life. The human desire to control the wolf represents the conquest of the wild. The wolf in literature is the object of further symbolic attributions, associated with witchcraft, religion, specific beliefs and lore but also with freedom and the dark inner self of humans. Overall these mixed views express ambivalent feelings toward the species. The results of this case study demonstrate that humans have multiple views of wolves, views that are not necessarily polarized into negative or positive extremes but that coexist: the vermin and the noble beast. In rural communities the wolf is not viewed as a fragile animal needing protection or as a modern symbol of wilderness. This study is a contribution from anthropology to the understanding of the wolf's cultural dimensions and, by extension, human relationships with the natural world. We suggest that local knowledge and rural communities’ perceptions of wolves should be integrated more effectively in conservation campaigns.
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This article blends the frameworks of ecocriticism and digital humanities. It explores quantitati... more This article blends the frameworks of ecocriticism and digital humanities. It explores quantitative methods for analysing literary representations of the wolf in Portuguese literature on a temporal and spatial basis, from an enlarged literary corpus. A grid analysis covers the entire sample’s content and encompasses the various forms that relationships between humans and nature can take.
Quantitative analysis reveals that wolves have been common narrative elements since the late nineteenth century. However, the proportion of wolf literary representations was not independent of time period of publication: a strong decline occurred in the works published after 1980. We also found that most of the contemporary writers that mention wolves place the narrative in a previous time.
Wolf literary representations maintained their basic pattern in structure across time. They combined a variety of topics, approaches and perspectives, although they tended to be less rich and less diverse in terms of their composition.
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Books by Filipa F Soares
Making Routes – Journeys in Performance 2010-2020, 2021
In October 2017, a transdisciplinary group of sixteen participants met at Knepp Castle Estate (We... more In October 2017, a transdisciplinary group of sixteen participants met at Knepp Castle Estate (West Sussex, Southeast England) for a two-day creative workshop. The event, entitled Performing Wild Geographies, was intended to be a cross-disciplinary experiment in engaging the public with the 'rewilding' movement. By embracing disparate disciplinary perspectives and methods, it explored how scientists, geographers and artists might work together through collaborative performance-making strategies.
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Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, Oct 2015
Este livro pretende contribuir para o debate científico e cívico sobre a dimensão social das ener... more Este livro pretende contribuir para o debate científico e cívico sobre a dimensão social das energias renováveis, com particular destaque para as energias eólica e solar. Ao longo do livro passam-se em revista as dimensões política, económica, ambiental, científica, mediática e de opinião pública sobre as energias renováveis, tanto a nível nacional como local, nomeadamente através da análise de quatro estudos de caso. São examinados os processos de desenvolvimento de políticas e incentivos, de planeamento e tomada de decisão sobre localizações específicas, de gestão de interesses e valores divergentes, sendo dado especial enfoque ao recurso ao aconselhamento de peritos, ao uso de argumentação científica e à participação dos cidadãos nos processos de deliberação.
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EnviroSociety, 2022
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Apoiar o desenvolvimento de novas políticas de gestão florestal direcionadas para a redução do ri... more Apoiar o desenvolvimento de novas políticas de gestão florestal direcionadas para a redução do risco de incêndio implica conhecer e analisar criticamente o passado e presente enquadramento de política pública desta problemática. Este policy review representa uma súmula desta análise.
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Translations by Filipa F Soares
RCC Perspectives, 2014
Translation from English to Portuguese:
Mauch, C. and Robin, L. (eds.), "The Edges of Environmen... more Translation from English to Portuguese:
Mauch, C. and Robin, L. (eds.), "The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers," RCC Perspectives, 2014/1
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Translation from English and Spanish to Portuguese:
Leal, Claudia, José Augusto Pádua, and John ... more Translation from English and Spanish to Portuguese:
Leal, Claudia, José Augusto Pádua, and John Soluri (eds.), "New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean," RCC Perspectives 2013, no. 7.
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Conference Presentations by Filipa F Soares
In an attempt to reduce the risk of extinction that threatens several species, reintroductions ar... more In an attempt to reduce the risk of extinction that threatens several species, reintroductions are becoming important conservation tools. Focused on IUCN guidelines, we aim to analyse the social context of a possible reintroduction of species (Aquila chrysaetos, Gyps fulvus, Canis lupus signatus) in Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal.
From September 2009 to March 2010, data was collected through complementary methods and techniques: document analysis, informal interviews (n=18) and semi-structured interviews to the inhabitants (n= 116) of seven rural villages located on the north-western part of Serra da Estrela Natural Park.
Results suggest that: (i) changes in the local social context and human-predator conflicts can compromise the reintroduction; (ii) local people's support towards it depends on the «sociozoologic scale», within which the three species are locally perceived as "bad". Nevertheless, respondents manifested negative opinions only towards the possible reintroduction of wolves.
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Media by Filipa F Soares
A new and exciting research project funded by the Portuguese agency for science and technology (F... more A new and exciting research project funded by the Portuguese agency for science and technology (FCT), starting next year.
Project FALCO will look closely at the historical human links with raptors / birds of prey. Consisting of the avian families falconidae and accipitridae, raptors include
various species of hawk and falcon. These birds were no strangers to Portuguese (indeed European) medieval culture: human-raptor connections ranged from material partnerships to intellectual representation. The symbolism of raptors was well embedded in the medieval mind, yet as living beings raptors also played a role in a considerable range of human activities.
Through exploration and sustained debate, we aim by the end of the project to have reached a strong methodological foundation for the broad-ranging, cross-disciplinary investigation of medieval human-animal relations, set to work widely across subjects.
Project members:
Alice Tavares
Ana Paiva Morais
Ana Raquel Roque
Carlos Pimenta
Diana Martins
Filipa Soares
Joana Ramôa Melo
Rémy Cordonnier (Co-PI)
Sónia Gomes
Tiago Viúla de Faria (PI)
Project advisers:
Aleks Pluskowsky
Baudouin Van den Abeele
José Manuel Fradejas Rueda
Partner institutions:
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA FCSH
Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos
Laboratório de Arqueologia, DGPC
(News link: https://www.facebook.com/InstitutoEstudosMedievais/photos/a.1647751625444789/3077568035796467/ More information soon to follow... )
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Thesis by Filipa F Soares
This thesis draws on three case studies (the New Forest, Knepp Castle Estate and Dundreggan Estate) to explore the ontological, epistemic and socio-political implications of rewilding for the governance of forest disturbance regimes in the UK, particularly through the use of large herbivores. Drawing upon relational understandings of nature, space and time, it develops an understanding of disturbance regimes as process and practice. It first examines how rewilding departs from orthodox biopolitical modes of governing life and the ontological politics at the interface between these various modes. To this end, it attends to the ways in which disturbances have been historically understood and how these understandings have come to shape their governance. Second, it explores the knowledge practices through which ecologists and forest managers know and enact disturbances, comparing a traditional ‘prescriptive’ approach with rewilding. It argues that in practice rewilding is multiple, in contrast to rewilding discourse. Finally, it maps the different and sometimes conflicting social, economic and cultural values associated with working with natural processes, exploring the political ecologies of governing disturbance regimes. It argues that controversies around forest management pertain to a large extent to contrasting perceptions of different types of ‘work’ within the idea of working landscape and how they are ‘naturalised’.
In the conclusion, the thesis explores three empirical and conceptual contributions of these findings for those seeking to understand the logics of rewilding and the processes, practices and dynamics by which nonhuman forms and processes are governed in a post-Natural and uncertain future. First, by deploying a relational approach to the governance of disturbance regimes and by focusing on a long-term disturbance, I draw out the relevance of temporality for thinking through and with disturbances as social and ecological processes. Second, by drawing attention to the intertwining of bio- and socio-political regimes, I propose a reframing of (European) rewilded landscapes as working landscapes. Finally, by attending to the intricacies of practice, I argue that rewilding praxis is multiple and hybrid. It often involves compromises and is shaped by past governance histories and the broader political and social context.
Papers by Filipa F Soares
by Ana Isabel Queiroz, Inês Gomes, and Filipa Soares
Uwe Lübken is professor of American History at the Ludwig-
-Maximilians-University, in Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, dc. He has published several monographs, edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) Transnational History and the “History of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes”. His current work explores the intersections of mobilities and the environment.
In May 2019 Uwe Lübken was in Lisbon for a cycle of workshops and conferences about the “History of Poverty and Hunger”, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History (ihc, nova, fcsh).1 This conversation took place one day after he delivered his talk. We first met him downtown and walked in the direction of the river Tejo. While we walked and visited some landmarks related to disasters (e. g., Igreja de São Domingos, Chiado, Convento do Carmo’s ruins), we evoked the great earthquake of 1755 and talked about flammable cities, disaster memory, and city-river relationships in historical perspective. We finished our trip on the south bank of the river, in Cacilhas (Almada), where we conducted this interview, having Lisbon in the background
periods. It aims to understand which wild birds are represented in Portuguese literature, how those representations prevail over time, and what literary texts reveal about distribution and abundance of the birds mentioned, linked to major environmental and landscape changes.
Based on common names, 112 taxonomic units are identified, corresponding to either one species, species of the same genera or family, or a higher taxon. In addition,
historical distribution and abundance are extracted from literary texts and compared with data from biological sources, such as ornithological reports, guides, atlas and red data books. We conclude that bird representations are frequent and diversified in terms of taxonomic units, and this richness tends to prevail over time.
The most prolific wild birds’representations are linked to the writers’own experiences of the Portuguese countryside
during their childhood and youth. It is particularly significant in the writers from the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, with a rural origin, like most of the population. Despite landscape and social changes the
rough time, contemporary literature still reveals a sound knowledge of birds and a proximity and appreciation of
nature, which can be explained by the rural ancestry
of some current writers, as a kind of countryside nostalgia and embodiment of an environmental discourse of wildlife
preservation.
Quantitative analysis reveals that wolves have been common narrative elements since the late nineteenth century. However, the proportion of wolf literary representations was not independent of time period of publication: a strong decline occurred in the works published after 1980. We also found that most of the contemporary writers that mention wolves place the narrative in a previous time.
Wolf literary representations maintained their basic pattern in structure across time. They combined a variety of topics, approaches and perspectives, although they tended to be less rich and less diverse in terms of their composition.
Books by Filipa F Soares
Other outputs by Filipa F Soares
Translations by Filipa F Soares
Mauch, C. and Robin, L. (eds.), "The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers," RCC Perspectives, 2014/1
Leal, Claudia, José Augusto Pádua, and John Soluri (eds.), "New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean," RCC Perspectives 2013, no. 7.
Conference Presentations by Filipa F Soares
From September 2009 to March 2010, data was collected through complementary methods and techniques: document analysis, informal interviews (n=18) and semi-structured interviews to the inhabitants (n= 116) of seven rural villages located on the north-western part of Serra da Estrela Natural Park.
Results suggest that: (i) changes in the local social context and human-predator conflicts can compromise the reintroduction; (ii) local people's support towards it depends on the «sociozoologic scale», within which the three species are locally perceived as "bad". Nevertheless, respondents manifested negative opinions only towards the possible reintroduction of wolves.
Media by Filipa F Soares
Project FALCO will look closely at the historical human links with raptors / birds of prey. Consisting of the avian families falconidae and accipitridae, raptors include
various species of hawk and falcon. These birds were no strangers to Portuguese (indeed European) medieval culture: human-raptor connections ranged from material partnerships to intellectual representation. The symbolism of raptors was well embedded in the medieval mind, yet as living beings raptors also played a role in a considerable range of human activities.
Through exploration and sustained debate, we aim by the end of the project to have reached a strong methodological foundation for the broad-ranging, cross-disciplinary investigation of medieval human-animal relations, set to work widely across subjects.
Project members:
Alice Tavares
Ana Paiva Morais
Ana Raquel Roque
Carlos Pimenta
Diana Martins
Filipa Soares
Joana Ramôa Melo
Rémy Cordonnier (Co-PI)
Sónia Gomes
Tiago Viúla de Faria (PI)
Project advisers:
Aleks Pluskowsky
Baudouin Van den Abeele
José Manuel Fradejas Rueda
Partner institutions:
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA FCSH
Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos
Laboratório de Arqueologia, DGPC
(News link: https://www.facebook.com/InstitutoEstudosMedievais/photos/a.1647751625444789/3077568035796467/ More information soon to follow... )
This thesis draws on three case studies (the New Forest, Knepp Castle Estate and Dundreggan Estate) to explore the ontological, epistemic and socio-political implications of rewilding for the governance of forest disturbance regimes in the UK, particularly through the use of large herbivores. Drawing upon relational understandings of nature, space and time, it develops an understanding of disturbance regimes as process and practice. It first examines how rewilding departs from orthodox biopolitical modes of governing life and the ontological politics at the interface between these various modes. To this end, it attends to the ways in which disturbances have been historically understood and how these understandings have come to shape their governance. Second, it explores the knowledge practices through which ecologists and forest managers know and enact disturbances, comparing a traditional ‘prescriptive’ approach with rewilding. It argues that in practice rewilding is multiple, in contrast to rewilding discourse. Finally, it maps the different and sometimes conflicting social, economic and cultural values associated with working with natural processes, exploring the political ecologies of governing disturbance regimes. It argues that controversies around forest management pertain to a large extent to contrasting perceptions of different types of ‘work’ within the idea of working landscape and how they are ‘naturalised’.
In the conclusion, the thesis explores three empirical and conceptual contributions of these findings for those seeking to understand the logics of rewilding and the processes, practices and dynamics by which nonhuman forms and processes are governed in a post-Natural and uncertain future. First, by deploying a relational approach to the governance of disturbance regimes and by focusing on a long-term disturbance, I draw out the relevance of temporality for thinking through and with disturbances as social and ecological processes. Second, by drawing attention to the intertwining of bio- and socio-political regimes, I propose a reframing of (European) rewilded landscapes as working landscapes. Finally, by attending to the intricacies of practice, I argue that rewilding praxis is multiple and hybrid. It often involves compromises and is shaped by past governance histories and the broader political and social context.
by Ana Isabel Queiroz, Inês Gomes, and Filipa Soares
Uwe Lübken is professor of American History at the Ludwig-
-Maximilians-University, in Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, dc. He has published several monographs, edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) Transnational History and the “History of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes”. His current work explores the intersections of mobilities and the environment.
In May 2019 Uwe Lübken was in Lisbon for a cycle of workshops and conferences about the “History of Poverty and Hunger”, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History (ihc, nova, fcsh).1 This conversation took place one day after he delivered his talk. We first met him downtown and walked in the direction of the river Tejo. While we walked and visited some landmarks related to disasters (e. g., Igreja de São Domingos, Chiado, Convento do Carmo’s ruins), we evoked the great earthquake of 1755 and talked about flammable cities, disaster memory, and city-river relationships in historical perspective. We finished our trip on the south bank of the river, in Cacilhas (Almada), where we conducted this interview, having Lisbon in the background
periods. It aims to understand which wild birds are represented in Portuguese literature, how those representations prevail over time, and what literary texts reveal about distribution and abundance of the birds mentioned, linked to major environmental and landscape changes.
Based on common names, 112 taxonomic units are identified, corresponding to either one species, species of the same genera or family, or a higher taxon. In addition,
historical distribution and abundance are extracted from literary texts and compared with data from biological sources, such as ornithological reports, guides, atlas and red data books. We conclude that bird representations are frequent and diversified in terms of taxonomic units, and this richness tends to prevail over time.
The most prolific wild birds’representations are linked to the writers’own experiences of the Portuguese countryside
during their childhood and youth. It is particularly significant in the writers from the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, with a rural origin, like most of the population. Despite landscape and social changes the
rough time, contemporary literature still reveals a sound knowledge of birds and a proximity and appreciation of
nature, which can be explained by the rural ancestry
of some current writers, as a kind of countryside nostalgia and embodiment of an environmental discourse of wildlife
preservation.
Quantitative analysis reveals that wolves have been common narrative elements since the late nineteenth century. However, the proportion of wolf literary representations was not independent of time period of publication: a strong decline occurred in the works published after 1980. We also found that most of the contemporary writers that mention wolves place the narrative in a previous time.
Wolf literary representations maintained their basic pattern in structure across time. They combined a variety of topics, approaches and perspectives, although they tended to be less rich and less diverse in terms of their composition.
Mauch, C. and Robin, L. (eds.), "The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers," RCC Perspectives, 2014/1
Leal, Claudia, José Augusto Pádua, and John Soluri (eds.), "New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean," RCC Perspectives 2013, no. 7.
From September 2009 to March 2010, data was collected through complementary methods and techniques: document analysis, informal interviews (n=18) and semi-structured interviews to the inhabitants (n= 116) of seven rural villages located on the north-western part of Serra da Estrela Natural Park.
Results suggest that: (i) changes in the local social context and human-predator conflicts can compromise the reintroduction; (ii) local people's support towards it depends on the «sociozoologic scale», within which the three species are locally perceived as "bad". Nevertheless, respondents manifested negative opinions only towards the possible reintroduction of wolves.
Project FALCO will look closely at the historical human links with raptors / birds of prey. Consisting of the avian families falconidae and accipitridae, raptors include
various species of hawk and falcon. These birds were no strangers to Portuguese (indeed European) medieval culture: human-raptor connections ranged from material partnerships to intellectual representation. The symbolism of raptors was well embedded in the medieval mind, yet as living beings raptors also played a role in a considerable range of human activities.
Through exploration and sustained debate, we aim by the end of the project to have reached a strong methodological foundation for the broad-ranging, cross-disciplinary investigation of medieval human-animal relations, set to work widely across subjects.
Project members:
Alice Tavares
Ana Paiva Morais
Ana Raquel Roque
Carlos Pimenta
Diana Martins
Filipa Soares
Joana Ramôa Melo
Rémy Cordonnier (Co-PI)
Sónia Gomes
Tiago Viúla de Faria (PI)
Project advisers:
Aleks Pluskowsky
Baudouin Van den Abeele
José Manuel Fradejas Rueda
Partner institutions:
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, NOVA FCSH
Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos
Laboratório de Arqueologia, DGPC
(News link: https://www.facebook.com/InstitutoEstudosMedievais/photos/a.1647751625444789/3077568035796467/ More information soon to follow... )