Spaces of Nature: Conflicts over Botanical Knowledge in the Case of (Trans)Atlantic Rainforests (Brazil and Great Britain) (A07*)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; City Planning, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290045248

This subproject investigates spatially structured knowledge conflicts in biodiversity conservation. It asks how nature conservation in the form of plant-human interactions is spatially imagined, practiced and regulated in the (trans)Atlantic rainforests of Brazil and Great Britain. The spatial figuration of nature conservation will be elaborated as a conflictual synthesis between the subjectively embodied nature conservation knowledge and practices of nature stewards and the dynamically objectified spatial arrangements of protected areas shaped by the global nature conservation regime.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1265: Re-Figuration of Spaces
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jamie Baxter; Dr. Séverine Marguin