Photo caption: Grove at Għajn Tuffieħa (Mark-Anthony Falzon)
Event: WIPSS Seminar: Prof Mark-Anthony Falzon - Unfixing the root: Tree-loss anxiety and politics in Malta
Date: 27 February 2023
Time: 18:00
Venue: Online event (via Zoom)
WIPSS Convenors: Peter Mayo, Michael Briguglio, Francois Zammit
Abstract: Increasingly, trees are a feature of Maltese landscapes and townscapes. And yet, there is a palpable 'tree-loss anxiety' that permeates the public sphere, and that at times translates into tree activism. The talk explores this apparent contradiction in light of the symbolism and politics of trees.
Prof. Mark-Anthony Falzon is a social anthropologist and a resident academic in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta.
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