The Political Life of Trees

Man in rainforest
Fotograf: Mike Kollöffel ©

PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Project period: 2014-2017

A Comparative Investigation of the Political Entanglement of Humans and Trees among Indigenous People and Radical Environmental Activists.

Conflict over forests is not a new thing, but over the past 10 years forests and trees have become the objects of renewed political interest. In the international climate negotiations, forests were represented as important carbon sinks, and their conservation as key to mitigating global climate change. At the same time, escalating conflicts around extractive industries such as logging and oil exploitation and an upsurge in environmental and climate activism, in different ways point to the multifaceted political life of trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stine Krøijer
Department of Anthropology
Mail: stine.kroijer@anthro.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 15 81

 

 

 

The project was funded by:

The project is funded by The Danish Research Council/Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation (FKK).

Project: The Political Life of Trees
Principal investigator: Stine Krøijer
Start: 2014
End: 2017