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The role of anthropologist studing social forestry in Poland

Author(s): Urszula Małecka
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: forest menagement; activists movement; environment; more-than-human sociality; engaged research

Summary/Abstract: In this article I want to show a changing perspective on my role as an anthropologist in the field connected with social forestry in Poland. From doing research on the democratic environmental project called The Model Forest — where my role was limited to the evaluation of project activities — I move to the group of forest activists in Poznań and get engaged in its running. I become an anthropologist working with the people and interacting with them in a more-than-human society. We create stories based on relationships other than utility — trying to be attentive to forest socialites. In my view, this is the role of the modern anthropologist — staying with and imagining better worlds together

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 70-77
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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