Project threads

Future Pasts research is guided by four core research questions, or overarching project threads:

~~1. Green materialities~~

How are ‘the past’ and constructions of ‘pastness’ being fashioned into new green materialities that act to perform ‘green economy’ responses to ecological crisis?

~~2. Conservation and cultural landscapes~~

How do the new green materialities identifed in (1) intersect with differing cultural conceptions of environmental change and sustainability?

~~3. Environmental change~~

How can archival and repeat landscape photographs anchor understandings of environmental change, constructions of environmental pasts, and visionings of environmental futures?

~~4. Ecocultural ethics~~

What normative assumptions underpin contemporary sustainability technologies and innovations, and what are the philosophical implications of juxtaposing these with other(ed) ‘ecocultural’ ethical frameworks?

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