PROJECT SUMMARY
The project’s overall aim is to better understand how competing economic and environmental interests as well as new modes of governing shape the current making of “new forests” on abandoned agricultural land in Russia. Due to its massive scale and complex implications, a better understanding of this process is highly relevant for questions of planetary carbon sequestration, Russia’s resource strategies and their international implications, and rural livelihoods in Russia. For this purpose, the project combines approaches from political ecology, governmentality and science and technology studies. It draws on a range of research methods including ethnographic fieldwork, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
