Re-articulating forest politics through “rights to forest” and “rights of forest”

• Published in: Geoforum
• Main Authors: Meriläinen, Eija, Lehtinen, Ari
• Other Authors: CCR - Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Helsinki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon Press 2022
• Subjects: 512 Business and Management; Rights to nature; Rights of nature; Politics of nature; Forest politics; Capitalism; Northern Finland; KOTA2022; PREM2022_09; 2 - Hybrid open access publication channel; 1 - Self archived; http://hdl.handle.net/10227/507454; 1- Minst en av författarna har en utländsk affiliation; 1- Publicerad utomlands; 0- Ingen affiliation med ett företag; PRJ; 1,5; AACSB year; 2022; Tornio
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10227/507454

Forests, and the politics around them, are posited both as a cause of and solution to the contemporary ecological crisis. This paper explores how rights to forest and rights of forest conceptualisations can re-articulate, and potentially challenge, the problematic dominance of capitalist forest poli...