Re-Claiming Place

The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland

Bibliographic Data

ID4476006
AuthorsA Fiona D Mackenzie (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada, and The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, Scotland), Alison Mackenzie (0000-0002-7360-5639, Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume20
Issue5
Pages535-560
Publication date2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d266t
OpenAlexW2074420223
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited28

In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a 'culture of resistance' is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging to place is imagined. Second, I connect the poetics of resistance of the Forest with the politics of territorial land claims of the North Sutherland Community Forestry Trust, whose objective is to reverse ongoing processes of dispossession through the collective ownership and management of the 3000-hectare Borgie Forest which the one-hectare Millennium Forest borders

Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Context (archaeology · Geography · Poetics · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Irish and British Studies · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies · Ecology

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