“…Dentro de este escenario de conflictividad, cabe destacar que, por una banda, en términos de uso el monte gallego ha transitado de un modelo multifuncional hacia un paradigma forestal dominante, protagonizado por las replantaciones de pino y de eucalipto (Cidrás & González-Hidalgo, 2022). Así, en la actualidad, alrededor del 50% del territorio gallego está arborizado, en su mayoría por las repoblaciones forestales citadas, que se concentran principalmente en la mitad occidental del país.…”
“…Dentro de este escenario de conflictividad, cabe destacar que, por una banda, en términos de uso el monte gallego ha transitado de un modelo multifuncional hacia un paradigma forestal dominante, protagonizado por las replantaciones de pino y de eucalipto (Cidrás & González-Hidalgo, 2022). Así, en la actualidad, alrededor del 50% del territorio gallego está arborizado, en su mayoría por las repoblaciones forestales citadas, que se concentran principalmente en la mitad occidental del país.…”
“…Arsonism is considered the main reason why these fires begin; and in some cases, they are associated with historical conflicts between rural peasantries and the state (Seijo, 2005; Cabana, 2007), as well as local land conflicts, or speculative interests in the land. As a reaction to this constant exposure to forest fires, and the lack of response by local, regional and national authorities, some local communities are recently developing initiatives to protect their houses and communitarian lands, by up‐rooting eucalyptus, diversificating forest species, re‐claiming common forest property and re‐populating rural areas (Cidrás & González‐Hidalgo, 2022).…”
Section: A Relational Analysis Of Two Cases Of Vulnerability To Firementioning
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“…Removing the eucalyptus trees requires strength; often it takes more than two people to be able to remove some larger ones. ‘Uprooters’ do not see the physical demand of these activities as a negative thing, but rather they consider it to be a way of ‘exercising, unloading the stress of the week and also the anger of seeing so many eucalyptus planted’ (interview, Cidrás & González‐Hidalgo, 2022). While the act of uprooting is a manifestation of (physical) strength or capability, participants readily acknowledge the limitations of their actions amidst an extensive expanse of monocultures: We do not achieve a lot, it's merely symbolic.…”
Section: Affecting and Being Affected By Forest Fires In Rural Sweden...mentioning
Usually, vulnerability is equated to weakness and resistance to strength. Drawing on a feminist critique of this conceptualisation, this article aims to discuss how vulnerability to forest fires and local action are mutually and contradictorily related. I analyse the ways in which people in two rural communities surrounded by tree monocultures in Sweden and Spain think, feel and act after being exposed to acute forest fires in 2018 and 2017, respectively. Attentively listening to the experiences of vulnerability during and after the fire in the two cases helps to explain vulnerability to forest fires as an emotional, care‐related process that opens up contradictory and transformative interconnections between peoples, nature and the state. Also, looking at the two cases together, this article shows how vulnerability to fire is mediated through unequal expectations across Europe's North–South divide. By re‐signifying the implications of vulnerability, disasters such as those analysed here can be seen as facilitators of radical transformations towards new rural futures in Europe's forests.
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