Jundan Jasmine Zhang

Jundan Jasmine Zhang is a researcher at the Swedish Center for Nature Interpretation, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research and personal interests have been trying to understand how do we ( a ‘we’ that is as expansive as possible) dwell in this world in an antiessentialist and relational way, and how do we decentralise human’s role through unpacking seemingly absolute appearances to gain deeper insights on how certain positionings and relations are established and enacted. This inquiry led her to a trans/interdisciplinary journey in various settings and research projects, exploring how nature-based tourism stirs up undercurrents of tourism worldmaking and shows that we all are embodiments of hybrid natures (PhD thesis in Political Ecology of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand), how scientific data produced from long-term monitoring in the Arctic is deeply place-based and relational (Postdoc, long-term monitoring and narrative-based knowledge from Svalbard), and how communication and interpretation are mediating efforts that blur the boundaries of presentation and representation – a meaning-making process that allows various human and nonhuman actors to negotiates their agencies (Future Forest projects on Continuous Cover Forestry, Mistra Environmental Communication, and Nature Interpretation Lab). Her current position at SCNI centers on developing a better understanding on “reflective practices of nature interpretation (naturvägledning)” through concrete practice-based cases to collaborate across researchers and practitioners.

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