@phdthesis{b7fbd909-de75-4cdf-bb2c-6acb05bcbdc5,
  abstract     = {{Time is often taken for granted. However, the ways in which it is perceived and expressed are never neutral or pre-given - they are the result of particular experiences, knowledges and desires. In the context of competing values and expectations for the boreal forest in the face of climate change and resource pressures, this thesis investigates how understandings, experiences and framings of time - temporalities - shape and bring meaning to everyday human and nonhuman (or more-than-human) engagements with the forest in Finland and Sweden. In particular, the thesis looks at how forest legacies and imaginaries are acknowledged, upheld, challenged and remade.<br/><br/>The concept of boreal forest temporalities is developed and explored via multi-sited, multimodal ethnography across three cases: museums and the curation of forest exhibits, conservation forests and nature protection practices, and 'the mushroom forest' and mushroom foraging activities. Advancing perspectives in critical time studies, critical forest studies and more-than-human research, this work reveals the processes and practices through which some forest temporalities are privileged whilst others are sidelined. Through the analytical lens of temporalities, the thesis shows how groups and individuals contend with certain memories, rhythms, intergenerational knowledges and other ways of dealing with and understanding time in the forest.<br/><br/>This research focusses on temporal politics in local, lived contexts whilst remaining attentive to connections across scales. As such, the thesis presents personal, multi-scalar and multispecies stories and relationships which are often left out of policy and public debates. Paying attention to temporal politics also raises a broader question for socio-environmental governance: not only whose values and perspectives count, but also whose temporalities are allowed to matter.}},
  author       = {{Garson, Katja}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-90202-78-4}},
  keywords     = {{temporalities; temporal politics; time; boreal; forest; more-than-human; legacies; imaginaries}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{231}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Political Science, Lund University}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  series       = {{Lund Political Studies}},
  title        = {{Boreal forest temporalities: Temporal politics in Finland and Sweden}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/259535355/Boreal_forest_temporalities_Katja_Garson_2026.pdf}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}