Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest

In Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks,...
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Author: Eunice Blavascunas
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Language: English
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Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest by Blavascunas, Eunice

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest

€53,85

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest

€53,85
Author: Eunice Blavascunas
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks, woodland bison, and thousands of species of insects and fungi collides with authoritarian and communist histories.

Foresters, biologists, environmentalists, and locals project the ancient Bialowieża Forest as a series of competing icons in struggles over memory, land, and economy, which are also struggles about whether to log or preserve the woodland; whether and how to celebrate the mixed ethnic Polish/Belarusian peasant past; and whether to align this eastern outpost with ultraright Polish political parties, neighboring Belarus, or the European Union. Eunice Blavascunas provides an intimate ethnographic account, gathered in more than 20 years of research, to untangle complex forest conflicts between protection and use. She looks at which pasts are celebrated, which fester, and which are altered in the tumultuous decades following the collapse of communism.

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles is a timely and fascinating work of cultural analysis and storytelling that textures its ethnographic reading of people with the agency of the forest itself and its bark beetle outbreaks, which threaten to alter the very composition of the forest in the age of the Anthropocene.



Author: Eunice Blavascunas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780253049605

About the Author

Eunice Blavascunas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.


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