Devastation, dislocation and (re-)settlement
Breaking/replacing the people-place connection in landscape
Destruction, dislocation and (re)-settlement’ will explore the social and cultural impact of the rapid and fundamental devastation of a landscape. Using a broad understanding of ‘landscape’ as a societal seat of people’s identity and connection with their environment (which foregrounds the role of perception in the construction of landscape), we will research the landscape impact of deliberate human actions, exemplified by war and social domination, rather than destruction caused by ‘natural’ events, or the transformations of landscape caused by very long-term processes.
DFG-AHRC Cooperation: Joint German-British Project Proposals in the Humanities, incl. Law and Linguistics funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) project no 468455366 (funding period: 2022-2024).
This research is funded through the UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number: AH/W010674/1].
