Futuring Heritage: More-than-human Tensions, Negotiations and Place-making in the Eastern Himalayas

The NWO-funded project Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas kicked off on January 6, 2025, with a multi-day workshop with our consortium members in Meghalaya, India. Abhimanyu Chettri and Anna Notsu, two PhDs of the research cohort, introduce their research projects.

Anna Notsu and Abhimanyu Chettri • October 14, 2025

Future heritage? The 'Historic Urban Landscape' approach in Zanzibar and Amsterdam

What can Zanzibar Town in Tanzania learn about managing world heritage from Amsterdam, and vice versa? At least one thing: that intangible heritage is not a matter of the past, and that its purpose - its future – may ‘conserve’ it most effectively.

Peter Pels • February 11, 2016

The revival of hunter-gatherer research

In September, 50 years after the famous Man the Hunter symposium (1965), the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research celebrated its foundation at the vibrant, interdisciplinary CHAGS conference, launching the Hunter Gatherer Research Journal.

Gerard Persoon and Tessa Minter • October 22, 2015 • 1 comment

Rock Art in Panna - What does it mean to the people who live there?

Rock art is widely found in caves and along shady parts of the rocky Vindhya hills of Central India, where the Panna Tiger Reserve is located. These are truly beautiful paintings, but what is their significance to the present local community?

Shekhar Kolipaka • July 01, 2015 • 6 comments

Community-conserved areas: Do freshwater fish sanctuaries work?

What determines the failure or success of community-conserved projects that try to combine biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction? Lien Vermeersch wrote her MA thesis on fish sanctuaries in the Philippines and won the Speckmann Prize 2015.

Lien Vermeersch • February 18, 2015 • 1 comment

Spirits up for the tigers: Unsung heroes from a conservation project

Underlying forces at work behind successful wildlife conservation are seldom shared. To show their importance, here are the stories of a politician, a shaman, and a landowner at the Panna Tiger Reserve in India.

Shekhar Kolipaka • February 04, 2015

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