Roots, Rupture and Remembrance: Tasmanian Landscape Narratives
Marianne Elisabeth Lien, University of Oslo
A common response to displacement is to introduce elements from a remembered place thought of as ‘home’. This explains the urge among colonial settlers to transform the landscape of British colonies, for instance by planting trees such as pine on a Tasmanian foreshore. A few generations later, the urge to appropriate the physical landscape remains an important pursuit. Yet, contemporary appropriations of landscape involve different and conflicting images of heritage and belonging, making landscape transformation a highly contested field of community engagement. I will use a current conflict over five pine trees as an empirical entry to the multilayered facets of Tasmanian notions of belonging
