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  • Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide: Heritage, Cosmology and the Colonial Inheritance of Conservation—Conversation with Dr. Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya

    One of our recent conversations within the Natureculture Lab and Critical Conservation was with Dr. Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, an archaeologist, heritage scholar and lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Bindura Universty of Science Education in  Zimbabwe whose work examines the intersections of archaeology, heritage, conservation, and decolonisation. Having worked for more than a decade as…

  • When the forest inherits: Living images and the politics of a shared humanity

    On Juliana Robles de la Pava’s new open-access article in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. Two decades of posthumanist critique have challenged the category of the Human: to see it as a historical construct, a normative fiction, and an instrument of hierarchy. Much of this critique has been subtractive: decentring, displacing, dethroning. But Robles de…

  • Between Ice and Memory: Pathways of Care Through the Cryosphere

    By Marcello Rechberger  Adam Sébire, anthropoScene XII: iceberg care, 2025, video installation. Photo: Marcello Rechberger Just a few steps separate the sunny courtyard of the Collegium Helveticum from the chilly underground rooms of the historic Semper Observatory, now host of the Swiss Advanced Studies Institute. In June 2026, this short walk became a journey through different ways of…

  • New WRITINGS IN THE CRITICAL CONSERVATION ESSAY SECTION – check them out!

    Several new essays are now live on the Center for Critical Conservation website. From Indigenous care and reconciliation to Amazonian knowledge systems, living heritage, and expanded understandings of conservation, these contributions continue our exploration of conservation as a relational, pluriversal, and critical practice. We invite you to explore the latest essays, discover new perspectives from…

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