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The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

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Abstract

jats:p Walking is a practice that often centers humans as moving and experiencing subjects. Whether on solitary rambles or in collective social and political engagements, people are central to understanding places on the move. However, multiple organisms and environments are also involved in moving practices. This article decenters human movement to ask: How does the forest walk? In a time when forest sites might also be inaccessible to multiple people who are remote from forest locations, this article further considers how digital fieldwork becomes a way to tune into moving forests and the relations they activate and sustain. Digital technologies differently constitute and mobilize environments in ways that can have consequences for how forests and people move, and for how environmental change is configured and addressed. </jats:p>

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forests, smart forests, walking, digital media, digital fieldwork, environmental change

Journal Title

Qualitative Inquiry

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Journal ISSN

1077-8004
1552-7565

Volume Title

28

Publisher

SAGE Publications
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) ERC (866006)
European Research Council 866006