
We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle
Inhabiting Territories in Struggle
Vidalou(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2023
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-1-5095-5651-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-5651-9 (9781509556519)
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Person
Jean-Baptiste Vidalou is a dry stone wall builder and philosopher who lives in France.
Content
1 Where We Live, Where We Struggle
2 A Country Like No Other
3 A Little History of the Map
4 Friction on the Ground
5 Welcome to the Park!
6 A Genealogy of Territorial Planning
7 Devastating Accounting
8 The Physiocrats and the War on the Commons
9 All That Is Solid Must Be Liquidated
10 Total Calculation
11 From Encampment to Logistics
12 Forests Versus Wood-Energy
13 Bringing the Outside In
14 Returning to Forests, Becoming a Secessionist
15 The New Nomos of the Earth
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