- Title
- Really shit work? Bodily becoming and the capacity to care for the urban forest
- Creator
- Jones, Ryan
- Relation
- Social and Cultural Geography Vol. 20, Issue 5, p. 630-648
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1384046
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The urban forest has a significant impact on the city’s social and ecological performance. However, shrinking space and resources needed to care for trees means cultivating community care for the urban forest is an increasingly salient issue. To this end, the paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the powers shaping people’s capacity to care for trees. It identifies the body as one of these powers and turns to Deleuze and Guattari for a theory of corporeality that illuminates the body’s role in the process of becoming a ‘bushcarer’. This highlights the trans-corporeal practices and encounters that endow people with the skills and desire needed to care for the urban forest. With the ethical utility of the body being debated by social and cultural geographers, this article defends its potential by suggesting the body and its encounters are deeply implicated in the development of a dyadic capacity to care for the urban forest. For urban forestry, this means community engagement might be framed as an ethical event that facilitates experiments in bodily composition that might change our ways of thinking, feeling, and being with the urban forest.
- Subject
- urban forestry; bodies; learning; care; affect; trees; SDG 11; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1471985
- Identifier
- uon:48745
- Identifier
- ISSN:1464-9365
- Language
- eng
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