by octopusgarden | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
The wild hamsters of the Dutch province of Limburg are currently cherished as a cute-yet-threatened indigenous species and a marker of local identity. This has not always been the case however. In a blogpost for Mosa Historia, Raf De Bont discusses how the Dutch...
by simone | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
On 15 December, Raf de Bont published a blog post for Mosa Historia on changing perceptions of European hamsters from harmful to cute, a shift which only occured in the 1960s and 1970s. The full blog post can be read here:...
by octopusgarden | Nov 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
In September-October 2020, The British Animal Studies Network devoted its autumn meeting to ‘Animal Borderlands’. Moving Animals’ project leader Raf De Bont gave one of the plenary lectures. A full report of the BASN autumn meeting can be found...
by simone | Nov 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since the late 1950s, observation from the air has played an important role in monitoring animal migration and in colonial endeavors to keep in check local human populations seen as a threat to the park’s wildlife. In a short essay for the online journal Arcadia,...
by simone | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
What do caribous on treadmills have to do with Alaskan oil? Alaskan wildlife conservation research and oil development have a long and entangled history. It is a complex one, too, in which the oil industry has funded various types of ecological research and in which...
by simone | Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Studying migratory wildebeests in the African savanna often involved a collaborative effort by research couples. In January, Simone Schleper wrote a short blog post on the gender dynamics of ecological fieldwork and its historiography: Understanding Women’s...
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