Future Pasts

Tweeting about AHRC Care for the Future project 'Future Pasts' on sustainabilities in west Namibia

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

☀️New film! made through the @Future_Pasts & @EtoshaKunene Histories @ahrcpress projects.

Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia
https://t.co/rE13Dpb8f7

@radicalanthro @BathSpaUni @PolEcoNet @ConservationNa1

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

☀️ A mega-🧵 with chapter links about

#Etosha Pan to the #SkeletonCoast:
#Conservation Histories, Policies & Practices in North-west #Namibia 🇳🇦

#OpenAccess, co-edited with Ute Dieckmann @UniCologne & Selma Lendelvo @unam_na

@BathSpaUni @EtoshaKunene >

https://t.co/doFYHcima8

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

☀️ It's been a long journey, but I can now share our 3 Journeys film!

"Lands That History Forgot – Three Journeys with Nami-Daman Elders in North-west #Namibia"

@Future_Pasts @EtoshaKunene @BathSpaUni @PolEcoNet @NCRST_Namibia @ahrcpress >

🎬 https://t.co/QAMIPJpVFB

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

I'd like to take a moment to celebrate Ruben !Nagu Sanib, one of the elders in north-west #Namibia I've worked with over the last 10 years, and from whom I've learned so much. Ruben sadly died on 7 June and I hear that he (alongside my friend Jan |Awiseb) was given a beautiful send-off on 16 June in Sesfontein.
Some of Ruben's knowledge and experiences are recorded in the film linked below. He grew up in what is now the #Palmwag Tourism Concession, an area he knew as Hurubes. In the film he talks about how people lived in this area in the past, the foods they ate, and the circumstances leading to their displacement.
In the screenshot Ruben stands in front of ǁKhao-as mountain, where the Aub (ǂGaob) and !Uniab rivers meet. His ancestors came from this area.
I feel very grateful to have known Ruben, and sad that I will not meet him again in person. It's been a complete privilege to spend time with him, and hear his stories.

@unam_na @NCRST_Namibia @MinistryofEnvi2 @ConservationNa1 @SRTNamibia @BathSpaUni @Future_Pasts @EtoshaKunene @daughterofsahel @historianmkalb @BGissibl @PHellermann @radicalanthro @BSUEnvHums @BSUHeritage @PolEcoNet

https://t.co/Q51qpCDPmM

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

More info here
https://t.co/nhgKJPdhwe

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

Article by @BathSpaUni about A Bee Song, a collaboration by @bancodegaia & @Future_Pasts
🐝🎶

[Bath Spa University @BathSpaUni]

Imagine the delicate humming of bees mixed with a traditional Namibian song, it's ‘A Bee Song’! 🐝 A collaboration between Banco de Gaia and @Future_Pasts led by @SianSullivanUK, Professor of Environment and Culture at BSU. Find out more - https://t.co/hCDzcWT6mz

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🎶 🐝 A Bee Song by @bancodegaia and @Future_Pasts now has a video!

@ahrcpress @BathSpaUni @PolEcoNet @ConservationNa1 @BSUEnvHums @BSUHeritage @cep_of >

➡️ https://t.co/wTKispaWKc

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🎶 🐝 Happy to share A Bee Song, a new single made through a musical collaboration between @bancodegaia and the @Future_Pasts research project in #Namibia 🐝 🎶

@ahrcpress @BathSpaUni @PolEcoNet @ConservationNa1 @BSUEnvHums @BSUHeritage @cep_of

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https://t.co/VjwcyqFpCO

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

It's so wonderful to hear this from @GreatRiverSnake, who speaks Khoekhoegowab - the language A Bee Song is sung in; & who knows something of the contexts for |gais praise songs.

Kai aios, dear ǁAres 🩷 🐝

@bancodegaia
@Future_Pasts

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

This has been several years in the making!

So pleased that A Bee Song - a recomposition of a 1954 archived recorded song praising bees - can now be listened to - thanks to @bancodegaia 🎶 🐝

Will be available on Bandcamp from next Friday. Details in 🧵below.

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🎶 🐝 Happy to share A Bee Song, a new single made through a musical collaboration between @bancodegaia and the @Future_Pasts research project in #Namibia 🐝 🎶

@ahrcpress @BathSpaUni @PolEcoNet @ConservationNa1 @BSUEnvHums @BSUHeritage @cep_of

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https://t.co/VjwcyqFpCO

[Christina @CWitvrouwen]

Now this 👇 science and facts matter!

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

@ConservationNa1 @AmyDickman4 @CWitvrouwen @IzakSmit It also coincided with high offtake levels several years into a drought period. I've spoken to many ppl in the north-west about these declines. Just about everyone links it with high offtake levels.
Clearly multiple factors at play.

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

@ConservationNa1 @AmyDickman4 @CWitvrouwen @IzakSmit Why is that interesting? I just agreed with you about the drought years.

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

@ConservationNa1 @AmyDickman4 @CWitvrouwen @IzakSmit Yes, I'm aware there's been very poor rainfall in the n-w since around 2011.

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

@AmyDickman4 @CWitvrouwen @IzakSmit You've perhaps not noticed that it's the progressive *decline* in prey over the last 10+ years that is an important factor here:

[Future Pasts @Future_Pasts]

@AmyDickman4 @CWitvrouwen It's the lack of prey that is the major issue here. Exacerbated HLC is an outcome of this situation.

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

Important work
#Hornkranz

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🎶 New @Future_Pasts blog documenting recent #music research & #repatriation work with the #BritishLibrary @soundarchive & the Nami-Daman Traditional Authority of n-w #Namibia

@NCRST_Namibia @GreatRiverSnake @tschukutschuku @BathSpaUni @radicalanthro

https://t.co/3OFqke0NsL

[Prof. Sian Sullivan ☮️ 🕊️ 🌱 @SianSullivanUK]

🎶 Short #BritishLibrary Sound and Vision Blog here, documenting the process of returning digitised recordings to Sesfontein 💛

@GreatRiverSnake @tschukutschuku @radicalanthro @daughterofsahel @BSUEnvHums @PolEcoNet ...

https://t.co/5ncn1ijxsH