Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal
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Resumo: | We respond to Greta Thunberg’s call for democracy to protect, restore and fund forests by taking it to the commoner s’ assemblies of baldios – mountain community forests returned to the local people, in Portugal, in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution. We highlight that when trees are considered as a technology to repair climate, they must be understood as a tool whose purpose is set by the people. By telling the tale of the afforestation of baldios, we show that trees can be harmful for local populations when their plantation disrupts local ways of being without providing alternatives, changing fire regimes. We argue the ontological transformation that results from the break-up of mutually constitutive relationships between the people and mountain places opened the way for ‘Faustian contracts’ – a loss of ‘the soul’ – by selling the long-term provision of goods to address short-term needs. When decentralization processes are captured by Faustian contracts, they can result in a battle of democracies, opposing participatory democracies to representative democracies of parishes and municipalities. Community forestry is then reframed as a struggle not so much about local control, but to gain back the soul and collectively set directions to face adversities. |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in PortugalCommunity forestryCivic participationCommon landsWildfiresDecentralizationWe respond to Greta Thunberg’s call for democracy to protect, restore and fund forests by taking it to the commoner s’ assemblies of baldios – mountain community forests returned to the local people, in Portugal, in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution. We highlight that when trees are considered as a technology to repair climate, they must be understood as a tool whose purpose is set by the people. By telling the tale of the afforestation of baldios, we show that trees can be harmful for local populations when their plantation disrupts local ways of being without providing alternatives, changing fire regimes. We argue the ontological transformation that results from the break-up of mutually constitutive relationships between the people and mountain places opened the way for ‘Faustian contracts’ – a loss of ‘the soul’ – by selling the long-term provision of goods to address short-term needs. When decentralization processes are captured by Faustian contracts, they can result in a battle of democracies, opposing participatory democracies to representative democracies of parishes and municipalities. Community forestry is then reframed as a struggle not so much about local control, but to gain back the soul and collectively set directions to face adversities.Firenze University Press2020-12-12info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/96736http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96736https://doi.org/10.13128/sdt-11790ita2384-87742284-242Xhttps://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/sdt/article/view/11790Serra, RitaAllegretti, Giovanniinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-05-25T06:03:51Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/96736Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:14:55.480143Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal Serra, Rita Community forestry Civic participation Common lands Wildfires Decentralization |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Democracies in common places: stories from baldios and ‘fire-tales’ in Portugal |
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Serra, Rita |
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Serra, Rita Allegretti, Giovanni |
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Allegretti, Giovanni |
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Serra, Rita Allegretti, Giovanni |
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Community forestry Civic participation Common lands Wildfires Decentralization |
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Community forestry Civic participation Common lands Wildfires Decentralization |
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We respond to Greta Thunberg’s call for democracy to protect, restore and fund forests by taking it to the commoner s’ assemblies of baldios – mountain community forests returned to the local people, in Portugal, in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution. We highlight that when trees are considered as a technology to repair climate, they must be understood as a tool whose purpose is set by the people. By telling the tale of the afforestation of baldios, we show that trees can be harmful for local populations when their plantation disrupts local ways of being without providing alternatives, changing fire regimes. We argue the ontological transformation that results from the break-up of mutually constitutive relationships between the people and mountain places opened the way for ‘Faustian contracts’ – a loss of ‘the soul’ – by selling the long-term provision of goods to address short-term needs. When decentralization processes are captured by Faustian contracts, they can result in a battle of democracies, opposing participatory democracies to representative democracies of parishes and municipalities. Community forestry is then reframed as a struggle not so much about local control, but to gain back the soul and collectively set directions to face adversities. |
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