Enchanted Cutaway: Nurturing Imaginations through Regrowth and Remembrance in the

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_18895
dc.contributor.author	Risley Sam
dc.title	Enchanted Cutaway: Nurturing Imaginations through Regrowth and Remembrance in the Altered Landscape of the Weald (UK)
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This study traces the impacts the iron industry of the Weald (UK), called Cutaway wood. It emphasises that the sixteenth century, which spanned the boom of the industry in the UK, also saw the greatest impacts of enclosure upon the landscape, the scientific revolution strip life down to its basic elements, and religious theory manifest notions of supernature. All of which created space for a burgeoning industrial capitalism to exploit natures resources. These capitalist abstractions haunt the present, forming a psychological hurdle as we try to visualise a new world. In this article I argue that rekindling a connection to land through visitation may help to reorient our diminished capacities for envisioning solutions to the climate crisis.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-10-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-756-2/enchanted-cutaway-nurturing-imaginations-through-r/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2/005
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-756-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Coppice
dc.subject	Extraction
dc.subject	Imagining otherwise
dc.subject	Visitation
dc.subject	Woodland

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Enchanted Cutaway: Nurturing Imaginations through Regrowth and Remembrance in the Altered Landscape of the Weald (UK)

Sam Risley Artist and researcher

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This study traces the impacts the iron industry of the Weald (UK), called Cutaway wood. It emphasises that the sixteenth century, which spanned the boom of the industry in the UK, also saw the greatest impacts of enclosure upon the landscape, the scientific revolution strip life down to its basic elements, and religious theory manifest notions of supernature. All of which created space for a burgeoning industrial capitalism to exploit natures resources. These capitalist abstractions haunt the present, forming a psychological hurdle as we try to visualise a new world. In this article I argue that rekindling a connection to land through visitation may help to reorient our diminished capacities for envisioning solutions to the climate crisis.

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Dec. 14, 2023

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Keywords: Woodland • Extraction • Imagining otherwise • Visitation • Coppice

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