Land Body Ecologies

The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too: B-side This is the B-side for episode 6 of the Land Body Ecologies Podcast, T he Landscape Has Changed For Them Too. This B-side balances the sounds of the Bannerghatta Forest with the encroaching city of Bangalore. Drawing together the sounds of communities and elephants living in and around the eco-sensitive zone of the Bannerghatta National Park, listener...

“Whenever I think of conflict between humans and elephants, I think it's in the mind. My organic space is in conflict with my imagined space.”– Nishant Srinivasaiah, Frontier Elephant Programme. The Bannerghatta National Park is situated right on the outskirts of the city of Bengaluru, which is one of the fastest-expanding urban centers of the last decade. This episode explores the challenges of c...

THIS IS THE RUTWA LANGUAGE VERION OF : EPISODE 5 - Born From Here Rutwa is the Indigenous language of the Batwa community with whom this episode has been created. For the English version please look for Episode 5 - Born From Here. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environment...

Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environmental change. In Episode 5, Born From Here, we travel to the edges of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forests in Kanungu district in Southwestern Uganda. Looking to the dense green hills that hold fields of sunflowers and ridges overlooking s...

This is the B-side for episode 4 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The Crying Place. The B-side shares open fields and the sounds of rain on the village hut roofs. We hear Swae roasting the coffee he grows, the sound of rice paddies through the water, and the songs sung by a family. For a full narrative exploration of the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community, download Episode 4 – The Cry...

The Crying Place shares a story of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community from the hilly regions of Ban Nong Tao, held at the base of rocky mountain faces and green forests. In this episode, listeners are invited to experience the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community and encouraged to slow down for the earth. In Pgak’yau, Haku (ฮากุ) means the crying place. That is what we call the earth. In a...

This is the B-side for episode 3 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The End Of This World . This B-side holds the clicks of reindeer hooves and low reindeer barks as they circle through the annual corral. It draws listeners along to the sounds of autumn, and the sounds of the landscape changing. Beginning at the lake, it moves up into the mountains, past melting glaciers, windning through black birch...

The End of This World, journeys through Sápmi, from Jåhkåmåhkke to Vájsáluokta to tell a story of a reindeer corral carried out on top of a mountain featuring a journey of several losses: of beings, of entire landscapes, and of cultural practices. On Sámi territories, past, present and future converge: historical and present-day colonial forces in place are highlighted as the environmental loss an...

THIS IS THE OGIEK LANGUAGE VERSION OF EPISODE 2 - HONEY. For a fully translated version please find Episode 2 - Honey (English Language Version) In Episode 2: Honey , we explore the Mau Forest in the Rift Valley, Kenya, where the population of honeybees have declined in recent decades due to deforestation, forest encroachment and logging. Bees are central to the identity of the Ogiek, an indigenou...

This is the B-side for episode 2 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, Honey. For the full episode please find Episode 2 - Honey. This B-side is atmospheric journey through the world of the second Episode. It takes us to the forest of Mau in Kenya, the ancestral home of the Ogiek people and explores their honey keeping tradition which is integral to their culture, health and identity. For a full narrati...

In Episode 2: Honey , we explore the Mau Forest in the Rift Valley, Kenya, where the population of honeybees have declined in recent decades due to deforestation, forest encroachment and logging. Bees are central to the identity of the Ogiek, an indigenous community that calls the Mau Forest home despite decades of continuous experiences of eviction in the name of conservation. The bees buzzing so...

This is the Finnish language version of the first Episode of the Land Body Ecologies podcast, for the fully dubbed English version please download episode labelled as English Language. The Free River tells the story of Kemijoki, Finland’s longest river that cuts across the country’s northern region. As the first hydroelectric power station was constructed on the river between 1945–1949, the dammin...

This B-side episode of The Free River is a wordless sound journey through the landscapes explored in the first episode of the Land Body Ecologies Podcast.. Beginning on the River Kemi upstream of the Valajaskoski hydro dam. Moving from the surface to below the ice the sound follows the journey of the river as it transitions from seemingly still quiet body of water to the furious sounds of the turb...

The Free River tells the story of Kemijoki, Finland’s longest river that cuts across the country’s northern region. As the first hydroelectric power station was constructed on the river between 1945–1949, the damming of the river Kemi represented a death blow for a salmon-fishing culture that was centuries old, and changed forever the course and balance of this powerful thriving river and ecosyste...