Golf Resonanser vid Tollygunge Club

This thesis explores the entanglement of humans and nonhumans within the Tollygunge Club golf course in Kolkata, reframing it as a dynamic taskscape shaped by multispecies interactions. Drawing on posthumanist thinking and more-than-human theoretical frameworks, the research examines how material forces – such as sound, water, heat, and time – mediate relationships and co-produce the sensory and temporal textures of this urban greenspace. Through semi-structured interviews, site observations, and documents, the study foregrounds the agential role of vegetation, wildlife, and inanimate matter in shaping both the aesthetic and functional dimensions of the landscape. It traces how human and nonhuman bodies collaboratively produce landscape, revealing that attention, responsiveness, and affect are not uniquely human faculties. Rather than viewing the golf course as a static or purely recreational space, the thesis excavates it as an active site of intra-action, where boundaries between nature and culture blur. The project contributes to debates on urban greenspaces by arguing for the recognition of golf courses as contested yet potent sites of ecological possibility. Ultimately, it calls for a reimagining of urban green infrastructures in the Anthropocene – ones attuned to their layered, co-constituted and affectively charged realities.