Forestry and Deforestation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Fairhead (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2182 |
| OpenAlex | W2998147046 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Anthropologists have visited forests for as long as they have been studying people but what has been the place of “the forest” in their analysis? In many studies, the forest is simply a venue for human social relations, yet to what extent are forests more dialectically engaged with social worlds? This is the stuff of historical ecology and political ecology perspectives in the discipline. These find forests to be more agentive in social relations. And as anthropology frees itself from treating human social relations in separation from our relations with animals, plants, and rocks in its multispecies and perspectivist analytical turns, how has this altered the place of these wooded realms in our work? The demarcation and management of forests are also political and the focus of policy and wider discourses in their intersections with neoliberal capitalism. Works consider the fate of forests and their inhabitants as forests acquire new financial values, whether for the “ecosystem services” they offer or for their frontiers on which to grow flex crops destined for biofuels as well as foods
Capitalism · Community forestry · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental ethics · Forest management · Geography · Human ecology · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Ecology · Forestry
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |