Beekeeping in the End Times is a multimedia project. The book and the film follow the many years of ethnographic research on climate change effects on honeybees, their partner plants, and human caregivers. The research findings are sobering. Even heartbreaking: across diverse, rewilding ecologies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the strange new weather is disrupting honey flow, so much so that honeybees would be starving without human aid.
The climate catastrophe is making many of us worried that Earth is collapsing. But devout Bosnian Muslim beekeepers and bee lovers take it for granted that the world will end one day. God knows when. The Islamic end- times lore they keep retelling is not too eager to preview the Apocalyptic event. Rather it fixes attention to the here and now, when chances are wide open to keep deferring the bad end. Not least through beekeeping.
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The climate catastrophe is making many of us worried that Earth is collapsing. But devout Bosnian Muslim beekeepers and bee lovers take it for granted that the world will end one day. God knows when. The Islamic end- times lore they keep retelling is not too eager to preview the Apocalyptic event. Rather it fixes attention to the here and now, when chances are wide open to keep deferring the bad end. Not least through beekeeping.
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