Wool Alliance for Social Agency
Research of the variety of cultural systems associated with wool
Film and featured photo: Die, France. Cynthia Hathaway, 2018.
During my stay in Die, France, I met George, my airbnb host. As it happens with wool, it keeps on connecting as you go along its trail, and before I knew it, I had quickly met my first shepherd. Georges agreed to an interview, and thus I note it here: Cynthia: What did being a …
photo: the sheep run through the center of Die to head to the upper pastures with their shepherds during the Fête de la Transhumance, June 2018. It can take 5-10 days of walking to get to greener pastures. photo: Cynthia Hathaway During the Fête de la Transhumance in Die, France, I talked with Sandrine Plateel …
photo: Het Parool, Herders Zijn de Beren Beu", by Adam Nossiter, July 28, 2018, pgs 20-21 During my visit to the Fete de la Transhumance, the issue of new predators was being highly communicated to the public. An urgent issue, shepherds are reconsidering their profession, or demanding changes be made before protected invasive and …
image: screenshot of Shepherd Net, European Shepherds Network. http://www.shepherdnet.eu During my time with Inland, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro told me about the ESN: the European Shepherd's Network, of which Inland is a vital part of its development and is its organizational team. It's a coalition of 151 civil society organizations, promoting mobile pastoralism, and 'the types of animal …
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