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The promise of green

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An ethnographic analysis of European forests as political-ecological formations, examining governance, policy, and contested forest practices across diverse contexts to advance anthropological appr...
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  • 06 April 2027
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This edited collection brings together case studies that ethnographically explore European forests as denaturalised, political-ecological entities. The collection represents the uneven geographies present in 'green' forest projects within emerging European economies of repair. Covering afforestation, reforestation, and plantations, among other forest mechanisms, case studies explore diverse forest-related challenges, including forest fires, timber harvests, non-timber forest product harvesting, mineral extraction, and recreation. In each case, contributors trace the political mechanisms that shape what a forest is and who gets to decide, transforming forests from neutral or natural entities into complex socio-ecological and power-laden constructions.
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Price: $140.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 06 April 2027
ISBN: 9781526194510
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social and cultural anthropology, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, NATURE / Ecology, Forests and woodland, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism
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Jodie Asselin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, Canada
Agata Konczal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University

Introduction: The case for an anthropology of political forests in Europe – Agata Konczal and Jodie Asselin
Part I: Discourse and practice
1 Permanent scrub, never forest: The politics of abandoned farmland in France – Amelia Veitch
2 Productive landscapes of security: Planting forests in Israel/Palestine – Erella Grassiani
3 ‘Un-making’ the forest: Moral ecology of potential landscapes in eastern Poland – Adam Pisarek
4 Political forests in Turkey: Processes, transformations, contestations – Anna Zadrozna
Part II: Moral engagements
5 De-eucaliptizing a plantationocene: Moral ecologies of Galician forest commons (Spain) – Jose E. Martinez-Reyes
6 Staying by/with the trees: Extraction, commoning, and politicisation of the Skouries Forest in Northern Greece – Effrosyni Rantou
7 'The forest falls upon us': The moral economy of firewood in a Romanian conservation frontier – George Iordachescu
Part III: Emerging transformations
8 Conceptualising ‘woodlands as warehouses’: Cultural dimensions of bioeconomic future making in southern Germany – Sarah May
9 Regulated forests, relational possibilities: How proximity-based forest care unsettles the dominant forestry paradigm in Finland – Jelena Salmi, Martta Nieminen
10 Who, what, and when are forests for? Perspectives of woodland creation and management in Britain today – Stephen McConnachie, Clare Hall, Jordan Rydlewski
Conclusion: Ethnographic lessons in the political forests of Europe and beyond – Jodie Asselin and Agata Konczal