Project
FORAGE
The Forest Anthropology Working Group on Europe and Beyond (FORAGE) was established in August 2023 during the first meeting of the network at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.
FORAGE brings together anthropologists and those using ethnographic methods in the social sciences whose research touches on forests (restoration, afforestation, rewilding, plantations, disturbances etc.) in Europe (broadly defined). The impetus for the FORAGE comes from two converging factors:
- Forests are increasingly, and often uncritically, invoked in public discourse and political documents as broad climate change and conservation solutions
- Because of this, there are numerous anthropologists whose research is increasingly drawing them to consider the social and political shapes of forests and their implications.
Aims of FORAGE:
- The exchange of expertise
- networking
- project planning, and preparation of proposals
- providing a platform for young and emerging scholars for international exchange and expanding research perspectives
FORAGE aims to bring together disparate research projects working under the same umbrella: the ways in which forests are increasingly and uncritically politicized as unproblematic or relatively easy climate change solutions, biodiversity fixes, remedies for rural areas and development problems.
For further inquiries, please contact:
Agata A. Konczal
Jodie Asselin
Members of the working group include several researchers from FNP.