Nye naturer. Forvaltning og samskabelse af natur i Danmark

PhD defence by Kathrine Dalsgaard

Assessment Committee

Associate Professor Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
Associate Professor Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Aalborg University
Professor Knut Gunnar Nustad, Department of Anthropology

Supervisor

Professor Stine Krøijer

Department

Department of Anthropology

Place

Building: Gothersgade, Room: Gothersgade Auditorium 1, Gothersgade 140, 1353 København K

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Short description of the thesis

The dissertation explores how nature comes into being as multiple partially overlapping versions in nature projects that aim to reshape Danish landscapes formed by historical land reclamation processes. The dissertation is a result of twelve months of fieldwork conducted in central Jutland from 2021-2024 among landowners, citizens and public managers and an industrial PhD at the Danish Nature Agency and a collaborative research project focused on storytelling and co-creation. The dissertation shows that actors perform situational, sometimes contested versions of nature and that managers seek to resolve controversies, shifting tensions and implement projects through practices of tinkering. By taking a performative approach the dissertation argues that controversies and tensions emerge as effects of the enactment of different versions of nature.