The temporal tricks of the bear. The production of a reserve in the Catalan Pyrenees based on landscape restoration
Abstract
The biological success of the brown bear reintroduction program in the Pyrenees, expanding from five individuals in 1996 to over seventy today, contrasts with the enduring social conflict with the livestock sector. To better understand this conflict, this article examines how the production of the bear reserve is based on a temporal trick: the restoration of a past landscape under the aegis of a heritage discourse. This analysis is developed in comparison to the production of the Baqueira Beret reserve, which is sustained by the replacement of a past pastoral landscape with a present tourism-oriented one. However, from the perpective of ethnographic historicity, both restoration and replacement are grounded in the temporal trick of blurring the connections between the past, present, and future inherent to any landscape transformation.
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