Not a (Field)guide to the Future explores agricultural ethics through the lens of the field and considers how these ideas intersect with memory and lived experience in the Dartmoors of the past, present, and future. This artistic collaboration with Dr Katharine Earnshaw traces a path through these fields - how they interrelate or are separated by hedges, walls or roads - how they combine to create new layers of meaning beyond our work-selves as academics, and our personal selves.
The book is both an archive of a friendship and a biography of a landscape - it offers past and present human micronarratives set within the vast space of Dartmoor; in so doing, we suggest that care, friendship, and the personal are essential to forging landscape relations of the sort that are necessary for our climate-aware futures.
Unlike many books of ‘reconnection’ with nature, we show that models do not have to be formed around the post-Romantic figure of the lone white male, but can include memories, and recognition of the memories of others, as well as laughter, grief, family, illness, love.
The book is both an archive of a friendship and a biography of a landscape - it offers past and present human micronarratives set within the vast space of Dartmoor; in so doing, we suggest that care, friendship, and the personal are essential to forging landscape relations of the sort that are necessary for our climate-aware futures.
Unlike many books of ‘reconnection’ with nature, we show that models do not have to be formed around the post-Romantic figure of the lone white male, but can include memories, and recognition of the memories of others, as well as laughter, grief, family, illness, love.
