Land Body Ecologies

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Land Body Ecologies is an audio and storytelling podcast sharing stories of Solastalgia from land-dependent and indigenous communities affected by environmental change. Each episode of storytelling is paired with another side of the same story – a B-side where the landscape, then, speaks for itself. Sounds captured in the environment are turned into sound art, and musical expressions unearth from the land. Communities featured are based in the Arctic, Kenya, Thailand, Uganda and India, and each episode will be available in English as well as in its respective local language. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is created and produced by Invisible Flock. Learn More https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

  1. The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too: B-side

    11/19/2024 · BONUS

    The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too: B-side

    The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too: B-side This is the B-side for episode 6 of the Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too. This B-side balances the sounds of the Bannerghatta Forest with the encroaching city of Bangalore. Drawing together the sounds of communities and elephants living in and around the eco-sensitive zone of the Bannerghatta National Park, listeners experience the low-frequency sounds of elephants and the stories, songs, and oral testimonies of communities. Through sounds of the landscape, listeners hear how climate change is experienced as a dual and connected trauma between elephants and people sharing the same lands. For a full narrative exploration of the ancient co-habitation of people and Asian elephants in a beautiful recognition of the land rights of both humans and more than human, download Episode 6 – The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode is produced with Quicksand.

    21 min
  2. Episode 6 - The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too

    11/13/2024

    Episode 6 - The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too

    “Whenever I think of conflict between humans and elephants, I think it's in the mind. My organic space is in conflict with my imagined space.”– Nishant Srinivasaiah, Frontier Elephant Programme. The Bannerghatta National Park is situated right on the outskirts of the city of Bengaluru, which is one of the fastest-expanding urban centers of the last decade. This episode explores the challenges of communities and elephants living in and around the eco-sensitive zone around the Bannerghatta National Park. They experience shifts in climate, food systems, development, and forest management, all of which are altering their traditional ways of living and relationships with one another. The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too explores the ancient cohabitation of people and Asian elephants in a beautiful recognition of the land rights of both humans and more than human, and how climate change is experienced as a dual and connected trauma between elephants and people sharing the same lands. This podcast is the final episode of Season 1 of our award-winning Land Body Ecologies Podcast. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode is produced with Quicksand.

    1h 5m
  3. RUTWA VERSION: Episode 5 – Born From Here/ Nkanzarirwa Hanu

    03/14/2024 · BONUS

    RUTWA VERSION: Episode 5 – Born From Here/ Nkanzarirwa Hanu

    THIS IS THE RUTWA LANGUAGE VERION OF : EPISODE 5 - Born From Here Rutwa is the Indigenous language of the Batwa community with whom this episode has been created. For the English version please look for Episode 5 - Born From Here. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environmental change. In Episode 5, Born From Here, we travel to the edges of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forests in Kanungu district in Southwestern Uganda. Looking to the dense green hills that hold fields of sunflowers and ridges overlooking sacred trees, listeners hear stories of the ancestral land of the Batwa community. Clouds constantly rise and fall in the hills of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This is known as Muntaba and is a place the Batwa would not visit as it is meant to be spiritual and sited with gold. The Batwa were once forest dwellers who used to live in Ekyuya, Semuliki, Bwindi, and Mgahinga, their ancestral lands in Uganda. In the early 1990s, government authorities evicted the Batwa from the forest and their home in the name of free land for wildlife and forest conservation. The evictions left the Batwa struggling to survive and facing extreme discrimination on the margins of their former home. These forests lie within the biodiversity-rich Albertine Rift eco-region and are sites of global biodiversity importance, famously home to half of the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. In Born From Here, we hear the lasting impacts on their health, culture, and livelihoods 30 years on from evictions. The episode features Batwa herbalists, artists, and rare insights from Elders on their experiences of living in and out of the forest.   Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode, Born from Here, is also produced with Action for Batwa Empowerment Group.

    1h 6m
  4. Episode 5 – Born From Here/ Nkanzarirwa Hanu

    03/12/2024

    Episode 5 – Born From Here/ Nkanzarirwa Hanu

    Land Body Ecologies Podcast is a series of six stand-alone episodes sharing stories of solastalgia from land-dependent and Indigenous communities affected by environmental change. In Episode 5, Born From Here, we travel to the edges of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forests in Kanungu district in Southwestern Uganda. Looking to the dense green hills that hold fields of sunflowers and ridges overlooking sacred trees, listeners hear stories of the ancestral land of the Batwa community. Clouds constantly rise and fall in the hills of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This is known as Muntaba and is a place the Batwa would not visit as it is meant to be spiritual and sited with gold. The Batwa were once forest dwellers who used to live in Ekyuya, Semuliki, Bwindi, and Mgahinga, their ancestral lands in Uganda. In the early 1990s, government authorities evicted the Batwa from the forest and their home in the name of free land for wildlife and forest conservation. The evictions left the Batwa struggling to survive and facing extreme discrimination on the margins of their former home. These forests lie within the biodiversity-rich Albertine Rift eco-region and are sites of global biodiversity importance, famously home to half of the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. In Born From Here, we hear the lasting impacts on their health, culture, and livelihoods 30 years on from evictions. The episode features Batwa herbalists, artists, and rare insights from elders on their experiences of living in and out of the forest.   Land Body Ecologies Podcast is produced by Invisible Flock and this episode, Born from Here, is also produced with Action for Batwa Empowerment Group.

    1h 6m
  5. The Crying Place: B-side

    04/04/2023 · BONUS

    The Crying Place: B-side

    This is the B-side for episode 4 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The Crying Place. The B-side shares open fields and the sounds of rain on the village hut roofs. We hear Swae roasting the coffee he grows, the sound of rice paddies through the water, and the songs sung by a family. For a full narrative exploration of the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community, download Episode 4 – The Crying Place. The Crying Place is produced by Invisible Flock with Joni Odochao, Siwakorn Odochao, Jennifer Katanyoutanant and Land Body Ecologies. Learn more: https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

    37 min
  6. Episode 4 - The Crying Place

    04/04/2023

    Episode 4 - The Crying Place

    The Crying Place shares a story of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community from the hilly regions of Ban Nong Tao, held at the base of rocky mountain faces and green forests. In this episode, listeners are invited to experience the harvest season of the Pgak’yau (Karen) community and encouraged to slow down for the earth.In Pgak’yau, Haku (ฮากุ) means the crying place. That is what we call the earth. In all important moments, we cry. When we are born we cry, when we feel happy we cry, and we cry because we suffer. Pgak’yau philosophy expresses the need to slow down for the earth, and the need to take care and take accountability for our world. This episode is narrated by legendary activist and campaigner Joni Odochao and his son Siwakorn Odochao on the ongoing land rights of the Pgak’yau community and their advocacy for traditional rotational farming. Both land rights and advocacy are realised “heu”, meaning little by little, step by step.The Crying Place is produced by Invisible Flock with Joni Odochao, Siwakorn Odochao, Jennifer Katanyoutanant and Land Body Ecologies. For further details, transcript and images from the process please visit the show notes. The B-side of this podcast is also available. To listen to this, please find it on our podcast page. Learn more: https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

    56 min
  7. The End of This World: B-side

    02/08/2023 · BONUS

    The End of This World: B-side

    This is the B-side for episode 3 of Land Body Ecologies Podcast, The End Of This World. This B-side holds the clicks of reindeer hooves and low reindeer barks as they circle through the annual corral. It draws listeners along to the sounds of autumn, and the sounds of the landscape changing. Beginning at the lake, it moves up into the mountains, past melting glaciers, windning through black birch forests before ending with the reindeers released back into the vast landscape as they begin their winter migration. For a full narrative exploration of the convergence of Sámi territories, past, present, and future, download Episode 3 – The End of This World. This episode is produced by Invisible Flock with Jenni Laiti, Carl-Johan Utsi and Land Body Ecologies.

    34 min
  8. Episode 3 – The End of This World

    02/08/2023

    Episode 3 – The End of This World

    The End of This World, journeys through Sápmi, from Jåhkåmåhkke to Vájsáluokta to tell a story of a reindeer corral carried out on top of a mountain featuring a journey of several losses: of beings, of entire landscapes, and of cultural practices. On Sámi territories, past, present and future converge: historical and present-day colonial forces in place are highlighted as the environmental loss and trauma that inflicts their land is addressed. Expanding hydropower, aggressive forestry, temperature rises, glacier retreat, and neo-colonial initiatives continue to impact the cultural, economic, spiritual, mental and physical health of Sámi reindeer herders and their wider community. By questioning what we should take with us to the next world, The End of this World suggests the importance of collective grieving: the need to come together in order to elaborate and process experiences of collective trauma and loss. For further details, transcript and images from the process please visit the show notes. The B-side of this podcast is also available. To listen to this, please find it on our podcast page. This episode is produced by Invisible Flock with Jenni Laiti, Carl-Johan Utsi and Land Body Ecologies.

    1h 14m
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Land Body Ecologies is an audio and storytelling podcast sharing stories of Solastalgia from land-dependent and indigenous communities affected by environmental change. Each episode of storytelling is paired with another side of the same story – a B-side where the landscape, then, speaks for itself. Sounds captured in the environment are turned into sound art, and musical expressions unearth from the land. Communities featured are based in the Arctic, Kenya, Thailand, Uganda and India, and each episode will be available in English as well as in its respective local language. Land Body Ecologies Podcast is created and produced by Invisible Flock. Learn More https://www.landbodyecologies.com/podcast

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  • Creator
    Invisible Flock
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Invisible Flock 2022
  • Show Website
    Land Body Ecologies