Segnaliamo una Call for Proposal dal titolo “Forests & Care” per un inserto speciale di “People and Nature”, edito dalla British Ecological Society.
We invite diverse forms of scientific engagement with caring and (un)caring practices in relation to trees, forest ecosystems and forestry, and their incorporation into culture, as well as barriers and embeddedness of care in political and institutional structures. We are seeking contributions that will evaluate human relationships with forests or with each other that are developed through shared experiences of forests, which are not well represented when forests are framed only as means to satisfy human ends or as entities of importance separate from and independent of people. To that end, we are open to contributions drawing on a broad range of care frameworks from feminist theory to indigenous or traditional approaches to environmental philosophical concepts like Arne Naess’ ‘deep ecology’, Aldo Leopold’s ‘land ethic,’ environmental stewardship, Stefania Barca’s ‘earthcare’, and others. In this Special Feature we invite contributions to explore and present examples of care that further our understanding of human-forest relationships, more-than-human relations, and societal relations with nature in the context of forests.
