The beat of the mountain: a transdisciplinary rhythmanalysis of temporal landscapes

• Published in: Landscape Research
• Main Authors: Flemsæter, Frode, Gundersen, Vegard, Rønningen, Katrina, Strand, Olav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Landscape; rhythmanalysis; interdisciplinarity; wild reindeer; recreation; land management; VDP::Samfunnsgeografi: 290; VDP::Human geography: 290; Dovrefjell; Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2580845; https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1535652

This article discusses how studying rhythms can help us better understand and manage spatiotemporal tensions in social-ecological landscapes, highlighting the potential of rhythmanalysis as a tool for crossing scientific and methodological borders. The empirical material is from a study of human and non-human users and uses of the highly valued Dovrefjell mountain area in Norway, with particular attention to the much-debated Snøheim Road. We take an in-depth view of Three different, but interrelated, rhythms at Dovrefjell and discuss how intervening through rhythms can be a fruitful way to approach landscape management. By simultaneously ‘listening’ to different rhythms, this approach helps us to understand and reduce spatiotemporal tensions between social, cultural and ecological uses of a landscape. Landscape; rhythmanalysis; interdisciplinarity; wild reindeer; recreation; land management; Dovrefjell; Norway acceptedVersion