Wetland Times
Funder: British Academy
Principal Investigator: Dr Blake Ewing
Duration: Jan 2024 - April 2025
Working with international collaborators in the humanities, ‘Wetland Times’ explores the different times and temporalities of three wetland landscapes — ‘mapping’ the different natural and human times in the area — and how they interact and are increasingly impacted by climate change. A particular ongoing focus is on a site in Cameroon where there are competing understandings of the value of time and time priorities between conservation practitioners and indigenous forest peoples.
The Wetland Times project has recently published a Virtual Exhibition of its work on the Environment and Society Portal, a site affiliated with the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, an institute founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Focusing on the Cameroon site, and our other two sites (Morecambe Bay and the Wadden Sea), it explores the time and temporalities of wetland landscapes through a number of temporal themes linking the three sites: on temporal imaginaries, narratives, structures, flows, (a)synchronicities, and ruptures.