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dc.contributor.author | Alberti, Gianmarco | - |
dc.contributor.author | Grima, Reuben | - |
dc.contributor.author | Vella, Nicholas C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Xerri, Kurt | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zammit, David E. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-11T13:18:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-11T13:18:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Alberti, G., Grima, R., Vella, N. C., Xerri, K., & Zammit, D. E. (2024). A Historical Landscape under Threat: Contestation and Preservation of Malta’s Pastoral Droveways. Heritage, 7(6), 3095-3119. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/123460 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Landscapes have been shaped and reshaped by humans to meet the changing needs of shifting subsistence strategies and demographic patterns. In the Mediterranean region, a widespread subsistence strategy that has left a major imprint is pastoralism, often tied with transhumance. Pastoralism and the associated tensions between pastoralists and settled agriculturalists have political and legal dimensions which are sometimes overlooked in mainstream accounts of national “patrimony”. The rapid transformations of subsistence strategies witnessed in the twentieth century have changed pastoral landscapes in diverse ways. This paper focusses on the central Mediterranean archipelago of Malta to explore how the values and management of such landscapes require holistic assessment, taking into account the intangible practices and embedded legal rights and obligations that maintained these systems. While in Malta pastoralism has practically disappeared, its physical imprint persists in the form of a network of droveways, which was once a carefully regulated form of commons. Burgeoning demographic growth is erasing large tracts of the historic environment. Against this backdrop of contestation, this paper draws on interdisciplinary approaches to interrogate the shifting legal and historical narratives through which pastoral landscapes have been managed, in the process revealing how dominant epistemological and legal frameworks are also implicated in the erasure of these landscapes. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI AG | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Landscapes -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pastoral systems -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | European Landscape Convention (2000 October 20) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Agriculture -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animal culture -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | A historical landscape under threat : contestation and preservation of Malta’s pastoral droveways | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/heritage7060146 | - |
dc.publication.title | Heritage | en_GB |
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