FORAGE

The Forest Anthropology Working Group on Europe and Beyond brings together anthropologists, ethnographers, and social scientists across disciplines who engage in forest-related research.

Explore our network and aims, discover our publications, upcoming events, and speaker series, and make sure to peruse the contributions to Roots: A Critical Forest Lexicon, and our Understories: reflections and analyses of forests and ethnography.

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Our network and aims

FORAGE is a network of social scientists who use qualitative methods work with and on forests in Europe and the Global North.


















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Roots for a Critical Forest Lexicon 





Roots for a Critical Forest lexicon gathers together critical terms and concepts to advance contemporary engagement with forest worlds across the Global North. 
































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Invited speakers series 





FORAGE regularly invites speakers to share insights and reflections on their research. 




























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Understories 





Reflections and musings on ethnography and qualitative methods in and with forests, brought to you by our community.
































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Upcoming events and calls for contributions





FORAGE members meet across the world at conferences, and dedicated FORAGE meetings, and regularly collaborate on edited collections and volumes. Stay apprised of our these initiatives here!




























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Publications and Resources





Learn about our recent journal articles, monographs, edited volumes, and policy reports. 












































The Forest Anthropology Working Group on Europe and Beyond (FORAGE) was established in August 2023 during the first meeting of the network at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.









About the coordinators 















Forests are increasingly, and often uncritically, invoked in public discourse and political documents as broad climate change and conservation solutions. With increasing societal interest in the forest fix also come new challenges: for policy-makers, economic stakeholders, rural communities, foresters and not least: for forests. FORAGE brings together anthropologists and ethnographers and qualitative researchers across the social sciences who are exploring the social and political shapes of forests in an age of heightened social, economic, and emotional investments in European forests.