T Gieser
Biographic Data
| ID | 39385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Gieser |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gieser |
| SIGNATURE | GIESER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Koblenz and Landau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3164-1746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feeling into Atmospheres
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship
The many boar identities
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
En El Entramado Del Bosque
In this article I offer a sensory exploration of hunting landscapes in contemporary Germany. In a first step, I show how such landscapes are built on and materially structured as cultural landscapes through hunting practices. In the remainder of the article, I examine more specifically how hunters perceive this landscape while being engaged in hunting and looking for game animals. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, I describe…
Introduction
In this special section, we conceptualise 'Skilled mediations' to examine the following questions from several ethnographic perspectives: How do skills and media interact, enable and limit our engagement in our material and social environments? How can this be studied ethnographically? We take our previous works on 'skilled visions' and 'enskilment' as starting points to define skilled mediation as a mode of engagement with the senses, practice, …
Sensing and knowing noises
Within sensory anthropology, scholars have for some time now developed ways to think with acoustic phenomena and to interpret the multiple meanings of sounds and soundscapes. Yet actual practices of listening and experiences of listening subjects feature rather less in that field. Drawing on a case study of chainsaw use in tree felling, this article presents listening as a mode of acoustic knowing that is both aesthetic and epistemological. This …
Hunting communities of practice
Response to Rupert Cox
Response
The experience of ‘being a hunter’
Hunting today is increasingly complex and heterogeneous. Processes of globalisation (economy, technology, law, tourism) transform local hunting practices as Western ways of hunting encounter non-Western, local ways of hunting. The question arises in how far a globalised (universal?) practice of hunting has developed in the wake of these transformations. Do hunters worldwide share a common understanding due to their being a hunter and being involv…
Druids at Wayland’s Smithy
Enskillment inhibited
Horticulture - like many other traditional crafts in Britain - is said to suffer from a 'skills problem'. A recent survey suggests that one of the reasons for this is increased outsourcing of horticultural work from public employers to private contractors. While anthropologists have generally acknowledged the politics of learning, they have had little to say about enskillment in work contexts which have been reconfigured in a way that leaves hard…
Embodiment, emotion and empathy
In The Perception of the Environment (2000), Ingold has argued that differences in cultural knowledge are more a matter of variation in embodied skills than in discursive knowledge. These skills develop through the practitioners' engagement with their environment and in situated social relationships. In order to `discover' for themselves what is taken for granted for experienced practitioners, they have to `fine-tune' their perception through obs…
How to Transform into Goddesses and Elephants
This article uses examples of shape-shifting, that is, the process whereby people believe themselves to transform into another being, to demonstrate that cultural contexts do not modify only the content of the dialogical self and how it is methodologically approached. It will be shown that shape-shifting in its respective cultural context modifies the mechanisms of the dialogical self. Drawing on ethnographies of modern witches in the UK and shap…
Embodiment, emotion and empathy
In The Perception of the Environment (2000), Ingold has argued that differences in cultural knowledge are more a matter of variation in embodied skills than in discursive knowledge. These skills develop through the practitioners' engagement with their environment and in situated social relationships. In order to `discover' for themselves what is taken for granted for experienced practitioners, they have to `fine-tune' their perception through obs…
Hunting communities of practice
Enskillment inhibited
Horticulture - like many other traditional crafts in Britain - is said to suffer from a 'skills problem'. A recent survey suggests that one of the reasons for this is increased outsourcing of horticultural work from public employers to private contractors. While anthropologists have generally acknowledged the politics of learning, they have had little to say about enskillment in work contexts which have been reconfigured in a way that leaves hard…
The many boar identities
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
How to Transform into Goddesses and Elephants
This article uses examples of shape-shifting, that is, the process whereby people believe themselves to transform into another being, to demonstrate that cultural contexts do not modify only the content of the dialogical self and how it is methodologically approached. It will be shown that shape-shifting in its respective cultural context modifies the mechanisms of the dialogical self. Drawing on ethnographies of modern witches in the UK and shap…
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship
How to Transform into Goddesses and Elephants
This article uses examples of shape-shifting, that is, the process whereby people believe themselves to transform into another being, to demonstrate that cultural contexts do not modify only the content of the dialogical self and how it is methodologically approached. It will be shown that shape-shifting in its respective cultural context modifies the mechanisms of the dialogical self. Drawing on ethnographies of modern witches in the UK and shap…
Embodiment, emotion and empathy
In The Perception of the Environment (2000), Ingold has argued that differences in cultural knowledge are more a matter of variation in embodied skills than in discursive knowledge. These skills develop through the practitioners' engagement with their environment and in situated social relationships. In order to `discover' for themselves what is taken for granted for experienced practitioners, they have to `fine-tune' their perception through obs…
Enskillment inhibited
Horticulture - like many other traditional crafts in Britain - is said to suffer from a 'skills problem'. A recent survey suggests that one of the reasons for this is increased outsourcing of horticultural work from public employers to private contractors. While anthropologists have generally acknowledged the politics of learning, they have had little to say about enskillment in work contexts which have been reconfigured in a way that leaves hard…
Druids at Wayland’s Smithy
The experience of ‘being a hunter’
Hunting today is increasingly complex and heterogeneous. Processes of globalisation (economy, technology, law, tourism) transform local hunting practices as Western ways of hunting encounter non-Western, local ways of hunting. The question arises in how far a globalised (universal?) practice of hunting has developed in the wake of these transformations. Do hunters worldwide share a common understanding due to their being a hunter and being involv…
Response
Introduction
In this special section, we conceptualise 'Skilled mediations' to examine the following questions from several ethnographic perspectives: How do skills and media interact, enable and limit our engagement in our material and social environments? How can this be studied ethnographically? We take our previous works on 'skilled visions' and 'enskilment' as starting points to define skilled mediation as a mode of engagement with the senses, practice, …
Sensing and knowing noises
Within sensory anthropology, scholars have for some time now developed ways to think with acoustic phenomena and to interpret the multiple meanings of sounds and soundscapes. Yet actual practices of listening and experiences of listening subjects feature rather less in that field. Drawing on a case study of chainsaw use in tree felling, this article presents listening as a mode of acoustic knowing that is both aesthetic and epistemological. This …
Hunting communities of practice
Response to Rupert Cox
En El Entramado Del Bosque
In this article I offer a sensory exploration of hunting landscapes in contemporary Germany. In a first step, I show how such landscapes are built on and materially structured as cultural landscapes through hunting practices. In the remainder of the article, I examine more specifically how hunters perceive this landscape while being engaged in hunting and looking for game animals. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, I describe…
The many boar identities
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
Feeling into Atmospheres
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship
Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works)