Nepal's Green Forests; A ‘Thick’ Aesthetics of Contested Landscapes

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ID12596332
AutoresAndrea Nightingale (a Geography Programme, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, UK), Andrea J Nightingale (0000-0001-5343-9576, Institute of Geography, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas313-330
Data de publicação2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthics Place & Environment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13668790903195594
OpenAlexW1968871208
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas21

Forests in Nepal are central in people's imaginations and daily lives and are a key means to social, political and economic power. This paper explores how an aesthetic appreciation of forests is tied in to other knowledges and experiences including the social-politics of resource use and management in the context of community forestry in Nepal. As such, more than one 'forest' inhabits the same spatial extent and these socially and politically framed views are central to aesthetic valuing of forests. The paper thus argues for a 'thick' aesthetics that ties together an understanding of the forest as an ecologically and socially emergent entity with a variety of knowledges that inform aesthetic valuing to analyse how competing visions of what the forest ought to be materialise

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Forest management · Geography · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Vision · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Green Space and Health · Forestry