The more-than-human geography aims to decenter the traditional anthropocentric geographic focus on humans, peoples, and communities and see the social world from the eyes of animals, materialities, and trees. This perspective has its origin with animal geographies, but in the context of hybrid relations, it has gradually extended to rural materialities and tree or forest place cultures. This contribution discusses the hybrid knowledge in the processes of rural change across localized and spatialized nature-cultures in rural areas. Through situated geographies of singular tree cultures, this contribution analyzes the multiple active tree positions with some academic key examples from central Spain: the sacred place and open forest linked with the spiritual traditions and geographical identities of a rural community over time; the spirit of resistance of a small forest against the social and climate changes over times; the unique tree of encounters in a rural community; and the symbolic tree in an open forest associated with traditional uses. All cases suggest the complex and multiple positions of trees and singular forest in postmodern rural areas.

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See the Social World from Another Geographical Lens: Researching for a More-than-Human Geography

  • Angel Paniagua

摘要

The more-than-human geography aims to decenter the traditional anthropocentric geographic focus on humans, peoples, and communities and see the social world from the eyes of animals, materialities, and trees. This perspective has its origin with animal geographies, but in the context of hybrid relations, it has gradually extended to rural materialities and tree or forest place cultures. This contribution discusses the hybrid knowledge in the processes of rural change across localized and spatialized nature-cultures in rural areas. Through situated geographies of singular tree cultures, this contribution analyzes the multiple active tree positions with some academic key examples from central Spain: the sacred place and open forest linked with the spiritual traditions and geographical identities of a rural community over time; the spirit of resistance of a small forest against the social and climate changes over times; the unique tree of encounters in a rural community; and the symbolic tree in an open forest associated with traditional uses. All cases suggest the complex and multiple positions of trees and singular forest in postmodern rural areas.