Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest

Cielemęcka, Olga

doi:10.1080/09589236.2019.1691981

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“…The performance thus gestures toward continuities and discontinuities—fullness/lack, intimacy/estrangement, sustenance/deprivation—and shows the critical need for forests in our interdependencies and differences. Cielemęcka (2020) observes how the performance challenges grammars of purity, explores “embodied, nourishing practices of human and nonhuman care” (p. 72), and opens up the “sedimented boundaries of what counts as reproductive labor” (p. 72). In my view, it intricately poses difficult questions of how we both are and are not trees, are and are not deforestation.…”

Section: Transcorporeal Witnessing Of Deforestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts

Eppert,

Conrad

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article seeks to extend discourses of embodiment by deploying Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality in the context of our grappling with complexities of bearing witness to deforestation and ecological destruction in Alberta’s Tar Sands. Transcorporeality captures senses of porosity among human, nonhuman, and more-than-human bodies and constitutes a productive perspective from which to ethically engage with ecological destruction. Through our artwork and dialogic exchange with each other, and our embodied thinking with the works of other artists and scholars concerned with ecological atrocity, we attend to challenges, nuances, and possibilities of witnessing in ways that both attune to our embodiment and seek to decenter the human. We contend that arts-based practices of being, knowing, and doing offer openings for re-figuring the toxic entanglements that pervade current ecological relations and illustrating pathways toward more regenerative futures.

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Section: Transcorporeal Witnessing Of Deforestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts

Eppert,

Conrad

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…However, the assault on the environment waged by the Law and Justice Party, in power since 2015, is unprecedented in that it constitutes an explicit element of the ideology of the ruling party. The rationale for government policies that lead to environmental devastation is explicitly located within a nationalist ideology that frames environmental protests as attacks on the most fundamental values-such as Catholicism, national identity, traditional gender roles, etc.-which are threatened by eco-terrorists, genderists (or feminists), gays, and Marxists (Cielemęcka 2020).…”

Section: The Climate For Climate Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Witnessing from within

Dębińska

2021

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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“…In this context, land deterioration on the regional scale is detrimental to humans and the environment. The damages are loss of important habitats leading to biodiversity decrease and species extinction [4,5]; serious human health threats resulting from soil and water contamination with heavy metal, organic matter, and pathogens [6,7]; lower supply of essential goods due to the reduction in land productivity caused by soil depletion, soil acidification, and soil erosion [8][9][10]; and large-scale ecological refugee migrations caused by geological disasters, earth's surface destruction, and spread of desertification under climate change [11]. These impacts have produced significantly negative effects on the sustainable development of regional economies and human beings, and have stimulated potential political and social conflicts.…”

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Regional Land Eco-Security Evaluation for the Mining City of Daye in China Using the GIS-Based Grey TOPSIS Method

Zhang

Chen

Guo

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Regional ecological security assessment is a significant methodology for environmental protection, land utilisation, and human development. This study aims to reveal the regional constraints of ecological resources to overcome the difficulties and complexities in quantification of current models used in land ecosystems. For this purpose, the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) was linked to a grey relational analysis and integrated with a geographic information system. The obtained method was used to construct a land eco-security evaluation on a regional scale for application in a traditional mining city, Daye, in central China. Parameter analysis was introduced to the method to produce a more realistic spatial distribution of eco-security. Subsequently, based on the pressure–state–response framework, the eco-security index was calculated, and the carrying capacity of land resources and population for each sub-region were analysed. The results showed that: (i) very insecure and insecure classes comprised 5.65% and 18.2% of the total area, respectively, highlighting the vulnerable eco-environmental situation; (ii) moderate secure classes areas comprised a large amount of arable land, spanning an area of 494.5 km2; (iii) secure areas were distributed in the northwest, containing mostly water and wetland areas and accounting for 426.3 km2; and (iv) very secure areas were located on the southeastern region, involving traditional woodland with a better vegetation cover and an overall higher eco-environmental quality. In addition, for each sub-region, the extremely low and low ecological security areas were mainly arable and urban lands, which amounted to 305 and 190 km2, respectively. Under the current ecological constraints, sub-region 1 cannot continue supporting the population size in Daye City. The present results demonstrate the accuracy of our methodology, and our method may be used by local managers to make effective decisions for regional environment protection and sustainable use of land resources.

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Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts

Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the Arts

Witnessing from within

Regional Land Eco-Security Evaluation for the Mining City of Daye in China Using the GIS-Based Grey TOPSIS Method

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