Ecologies of repair, regeneration and restoration

Questions of repair, regeneration and restoration are increasingly common themes across contemporary research in the humanities and social sciences. Work on ecological regeneration and cultural and linguistic restoration, alongside social movements advocating for cultures of repairability and ethics of care form vital responses to the intersections between processes of environmental degradation, and social, cultural and economic injustice. 

Work exploring questions of regeneration, repair and restoration feature across diverse bodies of research within the School of Humanities and Languages. Accordingly in these discussions we aim to explore interlinkages between – and challenges to – diverse projects of repair, regeneration and restoration. 

We will explore creative tensions between forms of historical preservation and revitalisation, the links between notions of restorative justice and practices of repair and regeneration, together with what geographer Chantel Carr terms “the hopeful work of maintaining and repairing relationships in the face of deterioration, disappointment and failure”. 

This HAL research conversation will be conducted over a series of two-hour hybrid workshops commencing across 2024-2025. 

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