Dear All,

Ecologies of Labour Network and Work Futures Research Group (Nottingham Trent University) will be hosting its next online seminar talk by Dr Barbara Tuck Niskac, on 29th February 2024, at 2 PM GMT  and the details are provided below. 

Kindly share the details with your colleagues and contacts and register your attendance at the link below. 

Bio of the speaker 
Barbara Turk Niskač holds a PhD in Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is currently Marie Curie research fellow at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Finland. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of childhood, anthropology of work, visual studies, and environmental and multispecies ethnography.

Abstract: Children, Cows and Common Bracken at Work 

This presentation explores multispecies relationality on unique patches of land in South-Eastern Slovenia, called Steljniki. These distinctive land formations feature expanses of common bracken interspersed with sparsely populated silver birch trees. Traditionally, they have been used for livestock grazing in spring and the harvesting of bracken in autumn. By tracing the transformation of these areas from active farmland to abandoned landscapes, I emphasise the shared agency of humans, grazing animals and bracken. Along the soil, they played a co-constitutive role in the creation, maintenance
and transformation of Steljniki. Within multispecies assemblages, special attention is given to children´s experiences as grazing cows was typically children´s obligation, and they have for generations participated in work related to land cultivation in subsistence-oriented farming tasks. Additionally, the abandonment of Steljniki offers insights into the entanglements of the economy and human and more-than-human lives. In this sense, work is recognized as a central activity which places people in the social world of other living things (Tsing 2013: 35).

Children, Cows and Common Bracken at Work 
A talk by Dr Barbara Tuck Niskac 
Date: 29th February, 2024 
Time: 14:00 PM GMT/ 19.30 PM IST
Link to Register: Online Talk

Register: http://tinyurl.com/54a2jpc6

We look forward to your participation and engagement in the discussion. 

Best Wishes,

Bhavna and Tom 

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