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Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda

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Title Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda
 
Creator Arora-Jonsson, S.
Colfer, C.J.P.
González-Hidalgo, M.
 
Subject forest policy
politics
forest management
 
Description We address two aspects of forest lives—violence and care—that are central to forest outcomes but often invisible in mainstream discussions on forests. We argue that questions of violence and care work in forests open up debates about what forests are, who defines them, and how. We draw primarily on feminist work on forestry, violence, and care to examine the gendered nature of forest conflicts and the ‘quiet politics’ of resistance to violence grounded in the everyday work of care that are crucial to understanding forests and their governance. We show how varied practices of resistance to violence and injustice are grounded in cooperative action of care and are an intrinsic part of shaping and regenerating forests. We highlight the importance of close attention to seemingly mundane actions rooted in people’s daily lives and experiences that shape forests.
 
Date 2021-05-29
2021-10-21T03:34:26Z
2021-10-21T03:34:26Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Arora-Jonsson, S., Colfer, C.J.P. and González-Hidalgo, M., 2021. Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A different vantage point for a future forest agenda. Human Ecology, 49: 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00233-0
0300-7839
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115567
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00233-0
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 297-308
 
Source Human Ecology