Wild Border of Politics
The Białowieża Forest and Changing Ecologies of Protest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2606246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Blavascunas (0000-0002-1129-859X, Whitman College), Benjamin Cope (0000-0001-9705-6796, Institute of Archaeology) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnologia Polona (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0137-4079 • E-ISSN: 2719-6976 |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.23858/ethp.2022.43.3006 |
| OpenAlex | W4313364198 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
The challenge of the politics of the Anthropocene is how to respond to the protests of nature: how to elaborate modes of thought, collective action and social institutions through which non-human agents can be integrated into political communities, even as non-humans exceed our understanding and remain a subject of difference. This paper looks at how the contested borderland forest, Białowieża, at the Polish-Belarusian border helps us think across protest culture during post-socialism. We examine the Białowieża forest as a site of, participant in and provoker of a series of protests: those against national park expansion, against logging, in support of bark beetle rewilding, of far right radical movements and for or against Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers crossing through the forest since EU sanctions were imposed on Belarus in 2021. We do so in order to suggest that these protests should be read as a continuum that enables reflection into why this forest is a key site of protest; that exploring them as a continuum reveals something about an emergent ecology of protest; and that this exploration offers an insight into what is at stake if we see the forest itself as protesting
Collective action · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Social movement · Sociology · Ecology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
How Forests Think
Witnessing from within
The Great Derangement
Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion
Friction
Beyond Nature and Culture
Death by ‘nature’
Class, Agency, and Citizenship in Belarusian Protest
Belarusian Protest
How Feminist is the Belarusian Revolution? Female Agency and Participation in the 2020 Post-Election Protests
Introduction
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Why Gaia is not a God of Totality
| Highly cited | No |
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