In the name of wild

Phillip Vannini was awarded funding through a SSHRC grant for a book and documentary film on the meaning of wild at UNESCO World heritage sites across the globe.

In the name of wild tells the story of a five-year ethnographic journey across ten countries in search of the meanings of wild. Distributed as a documentary film, book, and a web-based interactive documentary “In the name of Wild” explores wildness in UNESCO World Heritage sites situated in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Iceland, Canada, Belize, Ecuador, and Argentina. The present application focuses exclusively on knowledge mobilization for the project.