Nepal's Green Forests; A 'Thick' Aesthetics of Contested Landscapes
Ethics, Policy and Environment 12 (3):313-330 (forthcoming)
| Abstract | Forests in Nepal are central in people's imaginations and daily lives and are a key means to social, political and economic power. This paper explores how an aesthetic appreciation of forests is tied in to other knowledges and experiences including the social-politics of resource use and management in the context of community forestry in Nepal. As such, more than one 'forest' inhabits the same spatial extent and these socially and politically framed views are central to aesthetic valuing of forests. The paper thus argues for a 'thick' aesthetics that ties together an understanding of the forest as an ecologically and socially emergent entity with a variety of knowledges that inform aesthetic valuing to analyse how competing visions of what the forest ought to be materialise | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,705 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesDinesh P. Chapagain (2012). Collaboration and Collaborative Advantage: A Case of SQC Concept Promotion in Nepal. AI and Society 27 (3):357-362.
Taru Peltola (2007). Business on the Margin: Local Practices and the Politics of Forests in Finland. Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (1):29 – 47.
John van Buren (1995). Critical Environmental Hermeneutics. Environmental Ethics 17 (3):259-275.
Iii Holmes Rolston (1998). Aesthetic Experience in Forests. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (2):157-166.
Holmes Rolston (1998). Aesthetic Experience in Forests. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (2):157 - 166.
Douglas E. Booth (1992). The Economics and Ethics of Old-Growth Forests. Environmental Ethics 14 (1):43-62.
Douglas E. Booth (1992). The Economics and Ethics of Old-Growth Forests. Environmental Ethics 14 (1):43-62.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2010-07-27Total downloads4 ( #178,800 of 549,196 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,397 of 549,196 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
