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We are forests : inhabiting territories in struggle / Jean-Baptiste Vidalou ; translated by Stephen Muecke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vidalou, Jean-Baptiste, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Être forêts. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Forest conservation.
- Forests and forestry--Social aspects.
- Forests and forestry.
- Environmentalism.
- Deforestation--Prevention.
- Deforestation.
- Country life.
- Outdoor life.
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Translated from French.
- Summary:
- "From the forest of Sivens in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and use their bodies as shields, motivated by the determination to resist the lethal ecosystem of commercial exploitation. Forests have become a battleground in the struggle between groups with fundamentally divergent aims and objectives. Forests are made up of insurgents. Jean-Baptiste Vidalou went to see some of these forests and meet those who are defending them: he discovered a completely different way of understanding the world, sharply opposed to the mentality of planners who see forests as just one more territory to be managed. He discovered countless continents, unknown paths, ungovernable beings - a whole new geography was opened up, a perception of the world that made it possible to breathe again. Here he recounts this encounter, relays what these forest peoples and struggles convey, not to offer any recipes or ready-made solutions to the crises of our times but to be the forest , like a force that grows, stem by stem, leaf by leaf, slowly becoming ungovernable."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Être forêts. Habiter des territoires de lutte © Éditions La Découverte, Paris, 2017"-- copyright page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781509556526
- 1509556524
- 9781509556519
- 1509556516
- OCLC:
- 1347782946
- Publisher Number:
- 99994856993
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