Governance, rurality, and nature: exploring emerging discourses of state forestry in Britain

摘要

The authors position social forestry within the emergent research agenda studies of rural governance. They argue that scant attention has been paid to the theoretical concerns arising in studies of governance-either in rural networks, or in forestry more particularly. Issues arising from the governmentality approaches, alongside the metagovernance concerns of regulation and neo-liberal theories more broadly, direct a call for research to address the complexities of social interaction with cultures of nature; problematising institutions, and the complexities of placing communities in governance. The authors suggest that these changing modes of governance configure communities, places, and institutions in the wake of such interrelationships.