WOMEN AND FORESTS IN SOLIDARITY: A Multispecies Companionship Case From the Aegean Forests of Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorBozok, Nihan
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T10:32:59Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T10:32:59Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractBuilding on a feminist multispecies perspective, this article examines the interwoven relationships between forest ecosystems and the lives of rural women living along the Aegean coast of Turkey. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Aegean region's forest settlements between 2018 and 2022 forms the basis of this study. I focus on three ways women highlight their entanglements with forests into weaving conjoined webs of life: First, rural women's recollections of the forest and their understanding of the forest's ecosystem are firmly rooted in the ways they have grown up, providing a cultural context for women's subsequent forest advocacy. Second, rural women have a profound understanding of the edible plants that grow in the forests. Third, because they regularly forage with other women, rural women form deep relationships with other women and with the forests themselves. I show how these three factors-childhood memories, expertise in foraging and forest management, and deep ties of sociality-provide the impetus for rural women to protest deforestation. Such protests are driven by a collective concern for their own well-being, the good of their communities, and for forests. Building on a feminist multispecies perspective, this article examines the interwoven relationships between forest ecosystems and the lives of rural women living along the Aegean coast of Turkey. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Aegean region's forest settlements between 2018 and 2022 forms the basis of this study. This article focuses on three main patterns related to the entanglements of rural women and forests into webs of life: First, rural women's recollections of the forest and their understanding of the forest's ecosystem are firmly rooted in the ways they have grown up, providing a cultural context for women's forest advocacy. Second, rural women have a profound understanding of the edible plants that grow in the forests. Third, because they regularly forage with other women, rural women form deep relationships with other women and with forests themselves. Because of these three reasons-childhood memories, expertise in foraging and forest management, and deep ties of sociality-I show that rural women protest deforestation. Such protests are driven by a collective concern for their own well-being, the good of their communities, and for forests.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTUBITAK [SOBAK 1001, 114K125]; UNDP GEF SGP grant [TUR/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/21/16PI, TUR/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/22/10]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was partly supported by TUBITAK grant (SOBAK 1001, 114K125) in 2016, UNDP GEF SGP grant (TUR/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/21/16PI) in 2021, and UNDP GEF SGP grant (TUR/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/22/10) in 2022.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/08912432241230558
dc.identifier.issn0891-2432
dc.identifier.issn1552-3977
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85185661225en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241230558
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/3718
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001161878500001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGender & Societyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectecofeminismen_US
dc.subjectmultispecies ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectAegean forestsen_US
dc.subjectforagingen_US
dc.subjectactivismen_US
dc.titleWOMEN AND FORESTS IN SOLIDARITY: A Multispecies Companionship Case From the Aegean Forests of Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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