ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY TODAY WEBINAR SERIES 2025-2027
Host Country: Czechia and Slovakia
Date and Time: March 10 2026, 15:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Title: From Wild Boar to Household Resource Use: Czech Contemporary Ecological Anthropology
Discussants: Luděk Brož and Petr Jehlička - Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chair: Doubravka Olšáková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Type: Panel
Abstract:
The BOAR project is an anthropological study of veterinary knowledge and practice beyond animal
health, examining how veterinary science increasingly mediates human-wildlife interactions, and serves
to structure and govern society through biosecurity measures. More specifically, the project focuses on
how recreational hunting communities, self-appointed stewards of wild boar, are becoming key subjects
for veterinary interventions.
The RESOURCE project turns the usual logic of reasoning about the use of resources upside down.
Instead of investigating the wasteful and destructive forms of consumer life, it aims at frugal practices in
Czech and Dutch households. The research focuses on the management of two key household
resources: food and water.
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