Pluralising political forests : unpacking 'the state' by tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain
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- Esther Marijnen (UGent) and Judith Verweijen
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- Peering through the lens of illegal charcoal production in the forested areasof Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this paper makes a case for disaggregating the notion of“the state”to better capture “the political” in contemporary political forests. It argues that to identify the fluctuating importance of different dimensions of “stateness”, it is crucial to acknowledge the polymorphous socio-spatial relations that produce political forests. Thus, we draw on the notions of territory, place, scale and network (TPSN) to examine how “stateness” in Virunga has transformed under the particularisation, transnationalisation, and regionalisation of authority. This approach allows us to show how these processes do not only stem from neoliberalisation, but are also driven by, inter alia, regional warfare and non-state militarisation. The resulting complexity of the regulatory landscape turns Virunga into a space marked by a plurality of partly overlapping and partly conflicting political forests.
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- Earth-Surface Processes, Geography, Planning and Development, political forests, natural resources, TPSN framework, the state, neoliberalisation, Democratic Republic of the Congo, GREEN MILITARIZATION, NATIONAL-PARK, CONSERVATION, WORLD, TERRITORIALIZATION, NEOLIBERALISM, GEOGRAPHIES, CONFLICT, MILITARY, ACCESS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8599574
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- Marijnen, Esther, and Judith Verweijen. “Pluralising Political Forests : Unpacking ‘the State’ by Tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain.” ANTIPODE, vol. 52, no. 4, 2020, pp. 996–1017, doi:10.1111/anti.12492.
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- Marijnen, E., & Verweijen, J. (2020). Pluralising political forests : unpacking “the state” by tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain. ANTIPODE, 52(4), 996–1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12492
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- Marijnen, Esther, and Judith Verweijen. 2020. “Pluralising Political Forests : Unpacking ‘the State’ by Tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain.” ANTIPODE 52 (4): 996–1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12492.
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- Marijnen, Esther, and Judith Verweijen. 2020. “Pluralising Political Forests : Unpacking ‘the State’ by Tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain.” ANTIPODE 52 (4): 996–1017. doi:10.1111/anti.12492.
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- 1.Marijnen E, Verweijen J. Pluralising political forests : unpacking “the state” by tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain. ANTIPODE. 2020;52(4):996–1017.
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- [1]E. Marijnen and J. Verweijen, “Pluralising political forests : unpacking ‘the state’ by tracing Virunga’s Charcoal Chain,” ANTIPODE, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 996–1017, 2020.
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title = {{Pluralising political forests : unpacking 'the state' by tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain}},
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