Lecture – Eco-frontiers, or the very nature of borders of nature (conservation)
Lecture – Eco-frontiers, or the very nature of borders of nature (conservation)
What is the process that motivates humans to conquer a boundless, timeless and invaluable wilderness to serve their own political interests in control and territory building?
The ecological frontier (or eco-frontier) a neologism produced by a contemporary greened civil society, can be considered a new paradigm that embraces the mental representations and spatial constructions of eco-conquest without restricting its temporal dimension to the present time.
This lecture will explore the origins, evolution, and significance of the ecological frontier (or eco-frontier).
28 January 2025, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (WebEx)
Lecture in English
Sylvain Guyot is a full professor at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne (France) and member a of UMR CNRS Passages. His current research is focused on creative fights to reclaim nature and peripheric territories within remote European mountains (Greece, Italy, France and Spain).
The lecture is part of the UniGR-CBS lecture series “Border Realities: Beyond Nature and Culture”
The series is organized by Lola Aubry (UniGR-CBS, University of Luxembourg) and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary (Pacte, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes).
