Remembering Yellowstone Project

Yellowstone is globally recognised as the world's first National Park but the depth of its meaning goes beyond the history of nature conservation. This project sees Yellowstone as an assemblage of landscapes, memories as well as popular environmental discourses. It does so by interweaving the debate around Yellowstone as a landscape idea with the analysis of its representation in popular culture - from YogiBear to the more recent Yellowstone tv series - and with personal memories. 

By doing so, it will be possible to discuss some of the issues that Yellowstone is currently facing and how these can inform the global debate on the role of protected areas as landscape ideas, confronted with climate change, tourism and recreation as well as natural heritage kinship and belonging.

part #1

Position paper within the scientific journal “Geography Notebooks”: "Remembering Yellowstone: nature conservation, popular culture and belonging" 

https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Geography-Notebooks/announcement/view/84 

part #2

Collective memory project.

Using a simple Google Form I aim at collecting memories, opinions and pictures from the people I encountered more than ten years ago at the Yellowstone Center for Resources (and more generally at the Yak Camp), working or volunteering for the park. 

Where is Yellowstone in your emotional geographies? How do you remember it?

Online form: https://forms.gle/gm3Q5Pfnv1RP84AZ7