Enacted peatlands: Practices of care and knowledge in the climate mitigation of agricultural landscapes in Denmark

This project explores how peatlands are being enacted as a matter of concern by farmers, scientists, and public authorities through practices, technologies, and policies of restoration and rewetting in the process of addressing the green transition of the agricultural sector in Denmark. By exploring practices of identifying and classifying peatlands in restoration and rewetting efforts, the project will contribute to an academic conversation on anthropogenic landscapes offering insights into how knowledge and practices are incorporated or circumvented in the green transition of the agricultural sector.

Acknowledging that past and present imaginaries and practices – both locally, scientifically, and politically - as well as visions of possible and hoped-for futures are indeed also a part of the establishment of peatlands, the project will focus on historically contradictory practices and politics of environmental conservation and nature restoration by exploring contemporary enactments through more-than-human relations, technologies, and policies in search of hoped-for future landscapes for the benefit of both humans and nonhumans.