Episode 6 – The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too
"Solastalgia is extremely real for non-humans as well.” – Nishant Srinivasaiah, Frontier Elephants (LBE Collaborator)
The Bannerghatta National Park is situated right on the outskirts of the city of Bengaluru, which is one of the fastest-expanding urban centers of the last decade. This episode explores the challenges of communities and elephants living in and around the eco-sensitive zone around the Bannerghatta National Park. They experience shifts in climate, food systems, development, and forest management, all of which are altering their traditional ways of living and relationships with one another.
The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too explores the ancient cohabitation of people and Asian elephants in a beautiful recognition of the land rights of both humans and more than human, and how climate change is experienced as a dual and connected trauma between elephants and people sharing the same lands. .
This podcast is the final episode of Season 1 of our award-winning Land Body Ecologies Podcast. Each episode is paired with another side of the same story – a B-side where the landscape, then, speaks for itself. Sounds captured in the environment are turned into sound art, and musical expressions unearth from the land.
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Footage of community member, Basavaraju, during the ragi harvesting process. Bannerghatta Hub, India. © Photo Quicksand. Courtesy of Land Body Ecologies.
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Credits
Episode 6, The Landscape Has Changed For Them Too was recorded and produced by Invisible Flock and Quicksand.
Featuring Nishant Srinivasaiah (Elephant Biologist, Frontier Elephant Programme and LBE Collaborator), Vishalakshi Padmanabhan (Founder of Buffalo Back Collective and LBE Collaborator) and community members living in and around Bannerghatta including Thimmarayappa, Srikanth, Basappa, Kenchamma, Puttamadappa.
Voiceovers by Anush Kumar (Design researcher at Quicksand), Kishore Kumar, Romit Raj (Principal at Quicksand), Rohan Patankar (Design researcher at Quicksand).
With thanks also to: Babitha George (Partner at Quicksand).
Sound and content: Bharat Mirle (Filmmaker and LBE Collaborator)
Mastered by: Simon Scott
Cover Design: Reema Deshpande (Quicksand)
Hiristor, an elephant pictured near the Bannerghatta National Park that features in Episode 6 of the Land Body Ecologies podcast. © Photo Nishant Srinivasaiah. Frontier Elephant Programme.