Abstract
This study concerns narratives and practices developed within landscape management in a Natura 2000 area in the south-west of Sweden. This European Union-funded project shifted focus from morphological and passive conservation management to intervening in biological management. I investigate some of the consequences of re-politicized discourses and practices during this period. I ask how a traditional policy view on conservation was handled during this change, and what role EU funding has in preserving or changing a traditional management policy for landscape conservation. The conclusions are that landscape protection is driven by political and ideological values connected with institutionalized aesthetic components that are adjusted to whatever disciplinary focus prevails at the time. However, traditional approaches are retained, excluding participatory methods and the social dimensions on landscape management. To some extent, the available EU funding leverages alignment of project goals and management, influencing landscape alteration. Keywords: SandLife, political ecology discourses, landscape restoration and management, aesthetics, morphology and biology, EU projects
Highlights
The aim of this study is to investigate some of the consequences produced by re-politicized discourses and practices involved in landscape management, restoration and protection
Since the European Union (EU) project and the management policies and practices were intimately interwoven by being morally charged by political rationalities, it is necessary to discuss their epistemologies involved in the shaping of the local landscape's socio-natures (Forsyth 2008; Hinchliffe 2002; Hinchliffe and Whatmore 2006; Jorgensen and Tylecote 2007; Swyngedouw 2006; Wilkinson 2012)
The study has illustrated how contextual narratives, discourses, representations, technologies and project funding involved in landscape conservation and restoration can influence the conduct of nature conservation practices
Summary
The aim of this study is to investigate some of the consequences produced by re-politicized discourses and practices involved in landscape management, restoration and protection. The study situates the geographical context, which has a specific planning history and tradition related to Nordic geography and environmental governance (Benjaminsen and Robbins 2015; Benjaminsen and Svarstad 2019; Olwig 2002; Qvenild 2014; Sandberg and Jacobsson 2018; Setten 2017; Widgren 2015). It explores a European Union (EU) restoration project which reconfigured and re-politicized the ideological views on traditional DADmanagement, where some traditional features from that approach remained unchanged. Plants are no longer seen as pure and timeless objects removed from society, but have agency – this adds to the political dynamics that animate socionatures (Escobar 1995; 1998; Dahlberg 2015; Lorimer 2012; Nightingale 2014: 125; Setten 2017)
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